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2023
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Working Paper No. WP 2023-43
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Revised: December 23, 2023
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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We provide evidence that the distributions of consumption, labor income, wealth, and capital income exhibit asymptotic power-law behavior with a strict ranking of upper tail inequality, in that order, from the least to the most unequal. We show analytically and quantitatively that the canonical heterogeneous-agent model cannot replicate the proper ranking and magnitudes of these four tails simultaneously. Mechanisms addressing the wealth concentration puzzle in these models through return heterogeneity lead to a mirror consumption concentration puzzle. We match the cross-sectional data on these four Pareto tails by positing a combination of non-homothetic, wealth-dependent preferences and scale-dependent returns to capital. We underscore the importance of these results by showing that all four dimensions of top inequality jointly determine the long-run elasticity that governs the revenue-maximizing capital tax rate.
Schlagwörter: 
Spending
Wealth
Consumption
Saving
Income Distribution
Modeling
Taxation and Subsidies
Fiscal Policies
Firm Behavior
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