The Wealth Distribution in Bewley Models with Investment Risk
Working Paper 20157
DOI 10.3386/w20157
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We study the wealth distribution in Bewley economies with idiosyncratic capital income risk. We show analytically that under rather general conditions on the stochastic structure of the economy, a unique ergodic distribution of wealth displays a fat tail; more precisely, a Pareto distribution in the right tail.