In this empirical paper we analyze the link between homeownership across cohorts and the net wealth distribution. In … particular we are interested in the effect of the pattern of ownership across cohorts. Given that wealth accumulates over the … cohorts, should be related to current wealth levels and inequality. In order to gauge the effect of the ownership structure …

Wealth in addition to income determines to a large degree an individual’s consumption opportunities and economic … satisfaction as an indicator of subjective well being and households’ wealth. We contribute to the scarce literature on wealth and … well-being using micro-data from the German wealth survey, Panel on Household Finances - PHF, for 2010 and 2014. Using …

time-series of four cross-sections of the Finnish household wealth survey. Two different schemesare employed to identify …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …

which can influence portfolio choice: wealth shocks, which are represented by the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone, and …

From an economic perspective, imposing a credible one-off net wealth levy in crisis times as a tool to ward off a …