We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

We show that perceptions of relative rank in the wealth distribution shape individuals' willingness to take risks … categories when asking respondents about their wealth level. Respondents who are induced to perceive their relative position as …

We embed an experiment in a large-scale representative survey to investigate how relative wealth affects risk … their relative wealth as low display more tolerance towards risk in a subsequent incentivized risk-taking task. This effect …

This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household … surveys. This heterogeneity is driven by differences in both wealth composition and wealth levels. We find a decreasing … marginal propensity to consume out of wealth across the wealth distribution for all net wealth components. The marginal …

foreign households. Income or wealth effects do not appear to drive these results, and we do not find evidence of …

countries not exposed to the VAT shock. Income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution cannot explain these results. …

research has to ensure income, wealth effects, or intratemporal substitution channels cannot explain these results and ideally …