Infrastructure and inequality: insights from incorporating key economic facts about household heterogeneity

We study the impacts of investment in public capital on equity and efficiency. Taking into account stylized facts on wealth accumulation, we model agent heterogeneity through differences in saving behavior, income source and time preference. We find that in the long run, public investment is Pareto-...

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Main Authors: Klenert, D, Mattauch, L, Edenhofer, O, Lessmann, K
Format: Journal article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2016