Cagetti, Marco. <br/><br/>
Wealth Inequality:  Data and Models / 
Marco Cagetti, Mariacristina De Nardi. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2006. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w12550 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w12550. .
<br/><br/> October 2006. 
<br/><br/> In the United States wealth is highly concentrated and very unequally distributed: the richest 1% hold one third of the total wealth in the economy. Understanding the determinants of wealth inequality is a challenge for many economic models. We summarize some key facts about the wealth distribution and what economic models have been able to explain so far. 
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