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Yes, I think it's a great honour because as you say you know the recton valve

prize is a European prize so it shows that the work I have been doing you

know in the United States, about the United States, has also had an

impact beyond the borders of the United States and in particular in Europe, so it

It shows that the work I've been doing

has been influential worldwide.

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So, my research is about

inequality and public policy.

So, as we know, market economies

generate inequality,

but also a lot of economic growth,

so I have been documenting changes

in inequality over time and across countries

focusing particularly on top incomes,

and in particular the work

that I'm most known for is documenting

the enormous mon bandwidths increased

in income concentration in the US

over the last 30 years.

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So, I have not worked myself on Germany on the side of itself,

but I have talked to and perhaps influenced some scholars who have worked in Germany.

About inequality, one of our team, Fabian Dell,

that augmented the change in inequality in Germany and the concentration in income over a century.

I will talk a little bit about this tonight.

More generally, some of the work I've been doing about the US has inspired scholars in Germany

to do similar studies in a German context, and actually during my visit here I've had the opportunity

to talk to colleagues, professors,

at this university who've told me

about the fascinating work that they've been doing

about Germany that relates to some of the work

I've been doing oftentimes, you know, in the US context.

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Well, I don't know, it's true that when you look

the list of past winners. It was a very impressive list that's why I felt it was an enormous

honor for me to win the prize. At the same time, I feel like I'm still a very young

scholar, you know I'm 42 and the Nobel Prize in websites has never been given to anybody

below 50 something. So it's very hard to forecast what will happen, and I want to trust

the judgement

you know, of the people who decide

on the prize they've had

astonishing

good judgement

in choosing scholars