Research

Publications

• (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
  Full Text | Abstract
  Media coverage: The Economist, ‘Governments Going Broke’

Under Review

• (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
  Full Text | Abstract
• (2026) 'Who Reaches the Top? Intergenerational Wealth Transfers, Wealth Inequality and Wealth Mobility in the United States'
  Submitted
  Full Text | Abstract | Online Supplement

Working Papers

• (2026) 'Saving Rate Heterogeneity across the Wealth Distribution in the United States'
  Available at SSRN
  Full Text | Abstract
• (2026) 'Wealth Mobility in the United States: Empirical Evidence from the PSID'
  UGent, Department of Economics WP25/1104
  Full Text | Abstract

Work in Progress

• 'Wealth Proxies in the PSID: Implications for Measured Inequality and Mobility'
• 'Measurement Choices and the Return-Wealth Gradient in U.S. Survey Data'
• 'Saving Rate Heterogeneity under Wealth Rank Mobility'
• 'Wealth Transmission over the Lifecycle: Inter Vivos Gifts, Bequests, and Inherited Types'
• 'Declining Wealth Mobility and Rising Wealth Inequality at the Top'
• 'The Generational Decline in U.S. Homeownership: Three Facts and a Structural Model'
• 'Asset Size and Portfolio Composition in U.S. Wealth Accumulation'
• 'Identifying Type and Scale Dependence from Wealth Mobility'