The effect of better information on income inequality

DOI10.1007/S00199-006-0120-8zbMATH Open1127.91039OpenAlexW2091307722MaRDI QIDQ2373373FDOQ2373373

Authors Bernhard Eckwert, Itzhak Zilcha

Publication date 19 July 2007

Published in Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo_wp969.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

distributionagentsharing market

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53)

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