. Distributional information on households’ wealth is availablefrom the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points … quarterly distributional national wealth by (i) improving the alignment of surveyfieldwork periods with the national accounts … series; and (v)computing euro area aggregates. This paper finds an increase in the net wealth Gini of mosteuro area countries …

I investigate the effect of wealth on consumption in a new dataset with financial and housing wealth from 16 countries …-run) marginal propensity to consume out of total wealth is 5 cents (averaged across countries). While the wealth effects are quite … euro area economies, consumption only barely reacts to wealth elsewhere. The effect of housing wealth is somewhat smaller …

in the measurement of household welfare all material components should be covered, i.e. consumption, income and wealth … consumption, income and wealth can be analysed. Current researches linking macro and micro information for the households have … to household wealth using both survey data and financial accounts. It builds a link between wealth survey and national …

wealth (and income). The significance of inheritances for home ownership and holding of other real estate is remarkable. We …

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … determining its location in the wealth distribution. A generalized ordered probit model is estimated to explain the role played by … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …

evidence that wealth is heavily concentrated at the upper tail of the wealth distribution. A commonly cited number for the US … is that 1 percent of the households hold 30 percent of total household wealth. I investigate the reliability of upper … tail wealth estimates from household wealth surveys in the presence of survey differential non-response, i.e. the fact that …

wealth across euro area countries that await explanation. This paper focuses on three main factors for the wealth … three factors, in addition to the common household and demographic factors, are relevant for the net wealth accumulation … particular in homeownership rates and house price dynamics, are important for explaining wealth differences across euro area …

Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities …. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter … households despite their similar incomes. The average (median) net wealth difference is estimated to be €367,000 (€129,000) and …