WEALTH INEQUALITY: DATA AND MODELS

DOI10.1017/S1365100507070150MaRDI QIDQ3529521zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Cagetti, Mariacristina de Nardi

Publication date 13 October 2008

Published in Macroeconomic Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s1365100507070150

zbMATH Keywords

inequalitylife-cycle modelssavings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Mathematical geography and demography (91D20)

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