Christophe Van Langenhove

Assistant Professor in Economics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Research on wealth inequality, wealth mobility, heterogeneous agent macro, asset pricing.

[Morten N. Støstad @MortenStostad]

NEW paper w. @LobeckMax, @CdMeul:

How do people in the United States and Norway argue for redistribution?

In the U.S., pro-redistributive arguments mainly appeal to fairness. In Norway, arguments about the societal consequences of inequality are central.

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The paper is available on SSRN: https://t.co/7B0I39R7YD

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🚨New working paper 🚨– Saving Rate Heterogeneity across the Wealth Distribution in the United States

Using PSID data (2001–2021), I provide mobility-consistent estimates of saving rates across the U.S. wealth distribution.

[Christophe Van Langenhove @ChristopheVL_]

3. The synthetic method underestimates saving rates by over 100% and overstates inequality.

4. Wealth mobility contributes over 100% to observed saving rates in the middle of the distribution, but only 15–32% at the top.

[Arthur Apostel @ArthurApostel]

Hoe zijn de vermogens in België verdeeld? Niet-technische (poging tot toch 😉) blogpost voor de Universitaire Stichting Armoedebestrijding.

Link: https://t.co/Y5FwVFsYkl

[Arthur Apostel @ArthurApostel]

🚨 New working paper: “Belgian wealth inequality, 1935-2022” (NBB WP 477).
▸ Top 1 % owns ≈22 % of net wealth - same as bottom 75 %
▸ Inequality strongly declined last century, stabilised in recent years
PDF 👉 https://t.co/iNzjqijQ4C
#EconTwitter #Belgium #WealthInequality

[Christophe Van Langenhove @ChristopheVL_]

Read the full paper here: https://t.co/qBVW6oz3TU

[Christophe Van Langenhove @ChristopheVL_]

🚨 New working paper 🚨

I investigate wealth mobility in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).

#EconTwitter #EconX #WealthMobility

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

Higher inequality and higher life expectancy reduce interest-growth (r-g) differentials, the key determinant of public debt ratios. New paper presents long-run projections according to which r-g will stay below zero for the next 20 yrs in European countries, but not in the US.