Research
Publications
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(2024) 'Long-Run Perspectives on r−g in OECD Countries: An Empirical Analysis'
with Freddy Heylen & Marthe Mareels
Journal of International Money and Finance 145, 103093
Media coverage: The Economist,
‘Governments Going Broke’
Under Review
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(2026) 'Wealth Taxation, Capital Gains Taxation and the Inequality–Mobility Trade-Off'
with Jan Lorenz & Jan Schulz
R&R at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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(2026) 'Who Reaches the Top? Intergenerational Wealth Transfers, Wealth Inequality and Wealth Mobility in the United States'
Submitted
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(2026) 'Saving Rate Heterogeneity under Wealth Rank Mobility'
Submitted
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(2026) 'Wealth Proxies in the PSID: A Wealth Series from 1969'
Submitted
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(2026) 'Do the Wealthy Earn Higher Returns? Evidence from U.S. Survey Data'
Submitted
Working Papers
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(2026) 'Saving Rate Heterogeneity across the Wealth Distribution in the United States'
Available at SSRN
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(2026) 'Wealth Mobility in the United States: Empirical Evidence from the PSID'
UGent, Department of Economics WP25/1104
Work in Progress
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'Wealth Transmission over the Lifecycle: Inter Vivos Gifts, Bequests, and Inherited Types'
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'Declining Wealth Mobility and Rising Wealth Inequality at the Top'
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'The Generational Decline in U.S. Homeownership: Three Facts and a Structural Model'
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'Active Saving and Capital Gains across the U.S. Wealth Distribution'
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'Type Dependence and Scale Dependence in Top Wealth Concentration'