Essays about: "distribution of wealth and income"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words distribution of wealth and income.
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1. Are Distributional Variables Useful for Forecasting With the Phillips Curve?
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Does information on the distribution of wealth and income help us forecast aggregate macroeconomic variables? In this thesis, we study how adding such distributional variables to a standard forecasting model affects the forecast accuracy, in the context of inflation forecasting. Using the simulated inflation forecasting approach of Atkeson and Ohanian (2001), we perform a horse race between a textbook NAIRU Phillips curve to an extension augmented with variables from the wealth and income distributions. READ MORE
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2. Distribution matters: Meeting human needs at sustainable carbon consumption
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience CentreAbstract : To avoid irreversible damage to the climate system and biosphere, the majority of the world’s countries must reduce rates of resource throughput. However, the socio-economic conditions for satisfying basic human needs at low resource use have received scant empirical attention. READ MORE
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3. Entrepreneurial rent-seeking behaviour in the context of governance conditions
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)Abstract : Entrepreneurship is often linked to some of the most compelling economic and social issues of our time and can therefore be emphasised as essential and relevant. This thesis puts entrepreneurial behaviour in the spotlight and adopts the theoretical lens that enterprises may act as rent-seekers, striving to influence the distribution of income and wealth at the political level for their personal benefit. READ MORE
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4. Populist Voting in Europe : A Cross-National Study on Economic Factors on Populist Voting
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This study looks at the effects of different elements of economic well-being on populist voting in nine European countries, primarily comparing the effect of past and current economic well-being to the effect of economic well-being regarding the future. With an hypothesis that economic well-being regarding the future will have a larger effect on populist voting than past and current economic well-being, the results are inconclusive and suggest the opposite, although statistically significant effects can be found for both having an influence on populist voting; primarily regarding household income, individual economic fairness, wealth distribution fairness and actively improving knowledge/skills for work. READ MORE
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5. Using Voting Rights to Estimate Swedish Wealth Inequality in the Late Nineteenth Century
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Public and academic interest in inequality research is growing and we are increasingly seeing detailed national time series charting wealth and income inequality back to the beginning of the industrial revolution. Previous research on Swedish wealth inequality in the nineteenth century has been entirely based on samples of estate inventories. READ MORE
