Shocks, frictions, and inequality in US business cycles
Inequality in income and wealth in the US has substantially increased since the 1980s and is frequently the subject of contemporary public debate (e.g. Piketty and Saez 2003, Kopczuk et a...
Benjamin Born is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim and a CEPR research affiliate. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn.