Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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956849 | Journal of Economic Theory | 2015 | 27 Pages |
Abstract
We study the wealth distribution in Bewley economies with idiosyncratic capital income risk. We show analytically that under rather general conditions on the stochastic structure of the economy, a unique ergodic distribution of wealth displays a fat tail.
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Authors
Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Shenghao Zhu,