Publications

articles in peer-reviewed journals

Wildauer, R., Kohler, K., Aboobaker, A and Guschanski, A. (2023) Energy price shocks, conflict inflation, and income distribution in a three-sector model, Energy Economics, forthcoming.

Wildauer, R., Kapeller, J. and Leitch, S. (2023) Can a European wealth tax close the green investment gap? Ecological Economics, Vol 209.

Tippet, B., Onaran, Ö. and Wildauer, R. (2022) The effect of labour’s bargaining power on wealth inequality in the UK, the USA, and France, Review of Income and Wealth, 1475-4991 (Online).

Wildauer, R. and Kapeller, J. (2022) Tracing the invisible rich: A new approach to modelling Pareto tails in survey data, Labour Economics, Vol. 75. Example code here.

Wildauer, R. and Kapeller, J. (2021) A Comment on Fitting Pareto Tails to Complex Survey Data. Forthcoming in Journal of Income Distribution. Working paper version here. Preprint here.

López Bernardo, J. and Wildauer, R.  (2018): A Keynesian contribution to the theory of equity yields. Aestimatio: The IEB International Journal of Finance, (16). pp. 90-123.

Stockhammer, E. and Wildauer, R. (2018): Expenditure cascades, low interest Rates, credit deregulation or property booms? Determinants of household debt in OECD countries. Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol 5(2), 85-121.

Eckerstorfer, P., Halak, J., Kapeller, J., Schütz, B., Springholz, F. and Wildauer, R. (2016): Correcting for the missing rich: An application to wealth survey data. Review of Income and Wealth, Vol 62(4), 605-627.

Stockhammer, E. and Wildauer, R. (2016): Debt-driven growth? Wealth, distribution and demand in OECD countries. Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol 40(6), 1609-1634.

Wildauer, R. (2012): How effective are central counterparties for risk reduction? Momentum Quarterly, Vol. 1(2), 122-138.

other articles

Tippet, B. and Wildauer, R. (2023): The good life at the top. Analysing the Sunday Times Rich List 1989-2023. PEGFA Policy Brief #PB29-2023.

Heck, I., Kapeller, J. and Wildauer, R. (2020): Vermögenskonzentration in Österreich – Ein Update auf Basis des HFCS 2017. AK Wien Working Paper / Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Nr. 206.

Ferschli, B., Kapeller, J., Schütz, B. and Wildauer, R. (2018): Wie viel bringt eine Vermögenssteuer? Neue Aufkommensschätzungen für Österreich. Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitische Zeitschrift, Vol. 41(1): 145-162.

Ferschli, B., Kapeller, J., Schütz, B. and Wildauer, R. (2017a): Bestände und Konzentration privater Vermögen in Österreich 2014/2015. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Vol. 43(4), 499-533.

Ferschli, B., Kapeller, J., Schütz, B. and Wildauer, R. (2017b): Bestände und Konzentration Privater Vermögen in Österreich. AK Wien Working Paper / Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Nr. 167.

Wildauer, R. and Stockhammer, E. (2015): Schuldengetriebenes Wachstum – Nachfrageeffekte von Ungleichheit, Vermögenspreisen und Haushaltsverschuldung. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Vol. 41(4): 497-518.

Eckerstorfer, P., Halak, J., Kapeller, J., Schütz, B., Springholz, F. and Wildauer, R. (2014): Vermögensverteilung in Österreich und das Aufkommenspotential einer Vermögenssteuer. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Vol. 40(1): 63-81.

Eckerstorfer, P., Halak, J., Kapeller, J., Schütz, B., Springholz, F. and Wildauer, R. (2013): Reichtumsverteilung in Österreich. Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitische Zeitschrift, Vol. 36(4): 36-54.

working papers

Wildauer, R., Heck, I. and Kapeller, J. (2023) Was Pareto right? Is the distribution of wealth thick-tailed? Greenwich Papers in Political Economy, No. 92.

Wildauer, R., Leitch, S. and Kapeller, J. (2021) Is a €10 Trillion European Climate Investment Initiative Fiscally Sustainable? Greenwich Papers in Political Economy, No. 89. (also see here)

Kapeller, J., Leitch, S. and Wildauer, R. (2021) A European wealth tax for a fair and green recovery. Greenwich Papers in Political Economy, No. 81. Individual country appendix here. Policy brief here.
(also see here)

Tippet, B., Onaran, Ö. and Wildauer, R. (2021) The determinants of wealth inequality in the UK, USA and France. Greenwich Papers in Political Economy, No. 80.

Wildauer, R., Leitch, S.  and Kapeller, J. (2020) How to boost the European Green Deal’s scale and ambition. Greenwich Papers in Political Economy, No. 76.
(also see here)

Wildauer, R.  and Kapeller, J. (2019) Rank Correction: A New Approach to Differential Nonresponse in Wealth Survey Data. Greenwich Papers in Political Economy, No. 73.

Stockhammer, E. and Wildauer, R. (2017): Expenditure Cascades, Low Interest Rates or Property Booms? Determinants of Household Debt in OECD Countries, Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group working paper series, WP 1710.

Wildauer, R. (2016): Determinants of US Household Debt: New Evidence from the SCF, Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group working paper series, WP 1608.

Bohinc, F. and Wildauer, R. (2013): Das Bankgeheimnis in Österreich – Bestandsaufnahme und Skizze einer Reform. Conference paper for Momentum Kongress, Hallstatt, Austria, 17-20 October.