• DocumentCode
    120882
  • Title

    Wealth inequality and wealth effect

  • Author

    Weihong Huang ; Yu Zhang

  • Author_Institution
    Div. of Econ., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    27-28 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    422
  • Lastpage
    426
  • Abstract
    In an artificial financial market without real growth, extreme income inequality produces extreme wealth inequality via accumulation. An agent-based model is built to study to what extent a strong tax policy can affect this process. Wealth effect is defined as a positive impact of current wealth on future wealth growth. When wealth effect exists, the appearance of extreme wealth inequality is inevitable.
  • Keywords
    multi-agent systems; stock markets; taxation; agent-based model; artificial financial market; extreme income inequality; future wealth growth; tax policy; wealth effect; wealth inequality; Convergence; Economics; Educational institutions; Finance; Games; Investment; Yttrium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics (CIFEr), 2104 IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CIFEr.2014.6924104
  • Filename
    6924104