intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US … inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …

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 …

Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when … extrapolate both income and wealth distributions from German PHF (Panel on Household Finance) data under the incidental truncation … our copula-based approach can approximate much closer to the top tax data and wealth "rich list" than those unconditional …