It's too early to know, Professor Reed said, because the data are not all in.
This level of analysis is tricky because the data are easy to obtain but hard to interpret.
When economists try to measure inequality, they typically focus on income, because the data are most readily accessible.
"But nobody really knows what's going on in the black box of health insurance" because the data are proprietary and the complexity is huge.
This paper has garnered a lot of press here, here, and here, not because it's telling us something we hadn't already suspected but because the data are incontrovertible.
Efforts to discern exactly how securely financed other Wall Street firms are is difficult because the data are not publicly available.
These functions are implemented using different software packages that can easily access the common resource data because the data are embedded in the resource class structure.
The journal's editor, Dr. Allen Wilcox, said he decided to reproduce the figure from the ministry Web site because the data are so important.
Weather experts said even the most advanced computer models can fail because the data are never perfect and the computer models themselves are imprecise, even though they crunch billions of bits of information each second.
"We didn't know what to expect from the study but now we are very excited because the data are very compelling indeed," said Lawson Macartney, a senior vice president.
Piketty, in a response to the Financial Times, pointed out that because the data are "very diverse and heterogeneous," one "needs to make a number of adjustments … to make them more homogenous over time and across countries".
