The working paper published in the World Inequality Lab highlights how wealth inequality structurally affects the stability of the financial system, thereby increasing the likelihood of crisis events through the formation of asset price bubbles. Read the full World Inequality Lab Working Paper here.
The faculty at a glance
Faculty of Economics and Management Science
work Institutsgebäude
Grimmaische Straße 12
04109 Leipzig
Phone: work +49 341 97 - 33500
Fax: fax +49 341 97 - 31133500
Vice-Dean
Prof. Dr. Martin Friedrich Quaas
Dean
Prof. Dr. Rainer Alt
Dean of Studies
Prof. Dr. Roland Happ
Vice-Dean
Prof. Dr. Utz Dornberger
Deanery
Dr. Martina Diesener
Secretariat
Cathérine Krobitzsch
Grimmaische Straße 12, 04109 Leipzig
- Centralised faculty body
- Information Systems Institute
- Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management (IIRM)
- Institute for Theoretical Economics (ITVWL)
- Institute of Accounting, Finance and Taxation (IUFB)
- Institute of Business Education and Management Training (IFW)
- Institute of Economic Policy (IWP)
- Institute of Empirical Economic Research (IEW)
- Institute of Insurance Science (IVL)
- Institute of Public Finance and Public Management (PFPM)
- Institute of Service and Relationship Management (ISRM)
- Institute of Trade and Banking (IHB)
- Institute of Urban Development and Construction Management (ISB)