the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household …We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of … countries. As a result, the top percentile share of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent to 31 percent in the …

the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household …We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of … countries. As a result, the top percentile share of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent to 31 percent in the …

Macroeconomic aggregates on households' wealth have a long tradition and are widely used to analyse and compare … Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) constitutes a rich source of micro data that can be used to link macro … aggregates with distributional information to compile Distributional National Accounts for wealth. Computing aggregates from this …

of income and wealth and interest into the taxation of wealth for redistributive purposes has largely increased. By … including the HFCS data into the microsimulation model EUROMOD we add two novel aspects to the literature. First, we include the … analysis of taxes on wealth and wealth transfers. Second, we evaluate redistributive effects of tax-benefit systems against the …

. Distributional information on households' wealth is available from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points … quarterly distributional national wealth by (i) improving the alignment of survey fieldwork periods with the national accounts … time series; and (v) computing euro area aggregates. This paper finds an increase in the net wealth Gini of most euro area …