• Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Increasing Taxes on Top Income Earners 

      Brüggemann, Bettina; Yoo, Jinhyuk (2015-07-13)
      We analyze the macroeconomic implications of increasing the top marginal income tax rate using a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents and a fiscal structure resembling the actual U.S. tax system. ...
    • Asset Prices in General Equilibrium with Recursive Utility and Illiquidity Induced by Transactions Costs 

      Buss, Adrian; Uppal, Raman; Vilkov, Grigory (2015-02-01)
      In this paper, we study the effect of proportional transaction costs on consumption-portfolio decisions and asset prices in a dynamic general equilibrium economy with a financial market that has a single-period bond and ...
    • On the Distributive Effects of Inflation 

      Gottlieb, Charles (2015-06-01)
      This paper undertakes a quantitative investigation of the effects of anticipated inflation on the distribution of household wealth and welfare. Consumer Finance Data on household financial wealth suggests that about a third ...
    • Optimal Consumption and Investment with Epstein-Zin Recursive Utility 

      Kraft, Holger; Seiferling, Thomas; Seifried, Frank Thomas (2016-07-04)
      We study continuous-time optimal consumption and investment with Epstein-Zin recursive preferences in incomplete markets. We develop a novel approach that rigorously constructs the solution of the associated Hamilton-Jac ...
    • SCF 

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      The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is normally a triennial cross-sectional survey of U.S. families. The survey data include information on families’ balance sheets, pensions, income, and demographic characteristics. ...
    • The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Financial-Market Regulations: A General Equilibrium Analysis 

      Buss, Adrian; Dumas, Bernard; Uppal, Raman; Vilkov, Grigory (2016-01-25)
      In a production economy with trade in financial markets motivated by the desire to share labor-income risk and to speculate, we show that speculation increases volatility of asset returns and investment growth, increases ...
    • TPC 

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      U.S. Tax Policy Center (TPC) provides timely, accessible analysis and facts about tax policy to policymakers, journalists, citizens, and researchers.
    • WTID 

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      The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries ...