• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution
  • Contributor: Khieu, Hoang [Author]; Wälde, Klaus [Author]
  • Published: Munich: Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), 2019
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: E20 ; NLSY 1979 cohort ; D30 ; dynamics of wealth distributions ; capital income risk ; C60 ; Fokker-Planck equations
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  • Description: Labour income follows a deterministic growth trend and fluctuates between two values. Interest rates are drawn initially, fluctuate between two values and can differ in their arrival rates. Low interest rates imply a stationary long-run wealth distribution, high interest rates imply exploding wealth dynamics. When matching the NLSY 79 evolution of the wealth distribution from 1986 to 2008, we obtain a fit of 96:1%: With a more flexible interest rate distribution, employing "superstar states", the fit can increase to 96:7%. For the fit of 96:1%, the standard deviation of model returns is much lower than the empirical standard deviation.
  • Access State: Open Access