Understanding 100 Years of the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the U.S.: What is the Role of Family Firms?
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- Andrew Atkeson & Magnus Irie, 2020. "Understanding 100 Years of the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the U.S.: What is the Role of Family Firms?," NBER Working Papers 27465, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Wealth; Inequality; Family firms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- 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-HIS-2020-09-07 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2020-09-07 (Macroeconomics)
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