Wealth Inequality and Private Savings : The Case of Germany /

This paper explores the interaction between corporate ownership concentration and private savings, and by extension, the current account balance in Germany. As high corporate savings largely reflected capital income accruing to wealthy households and increasingly retained in closely-held firms, the...

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Hovedforfatter: Dao, Mai
Format: Tidsskrift
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Serier:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/107
Online adgang:Full text available on IMF
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