follows the methodology of Malmendier and Nagel (2011) and applies it to a novel data set on household finances covering euro … highlights the relevance of personal experiences for household behavior. …

We study the link between household structure and cross country differences in the wealth distribution using a recently … explained by differences in household structure. We find that imposing a common household structure has strong effects on both …, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia and Slovakia household structure masks the differences to the euro area median …

Results from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey reveal substantial variation in household net … three factors, in addition to the common household and demographic factors, are relevant for the net wealth accumulation …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 euro area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

situation of an individual household. Using the data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey and the country …

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We study the role played by the household's location in the income distributions in …