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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Income and Wealth Distribution in Germany: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Oct 26, 2014

Household economic surveys, such as the German Socio-Economic Panel, notoriously underestimate the degree of income and wealth inequality at the upper end of the distribution.

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Nobel Win Doesn’t Equate To Policy Prescriptions

Oct 21, 2014

The “keys under the streetlight story” is well known among economists, but in case you haven’t heard it, it goes like this.