changes in income distribution and in private wealth on consumption and investment covering a period from as early as 1855 …-Keynesian debate on the nature of demand regimes, mainstream analyses of wealth effects and the financialisation debate. We find that … shares, which is driven by residential investment. For corporate investment alone, we find a negative relation. Wealth …

This paper uses SOEP data to study the distributional effect of intergenerational transfers on the wealth distribution … aggregate bequest flows. At the same time, there is an ongoing debate on the distributional implications of such wealth shocks … of households. The model allows for dynamic adjustment and variations in the savings behavior over the wealth …

remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of … individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks …. Using the wealth component of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find that, on average, members of western …

the top end of the wealth distribution in Germany. The SOEP-P population has about 21 times higher net wealth on average …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …