Econometric analysis of the wealth gap between East and West Germany
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Keywords
household finance; wealth distribution; wealth gap; decomposition methods; counterfactuals; distributional analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2015-11-07 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-MAC-2015-11-07 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-TRA-2015-11-07 (Transition Economics)
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