Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro-area countries. First, we …

deterministic systems, such as looking for multiple peaks in the stationary distribution of states. We develop Markov wealth … processes in which parents' investments in children stochastically determine children's wealth, and consequently their own … others, and that their presence dominates the stationary behavior of the wealth distribution. Typically, mass accumulates …

From an economic perspective, imposing a credible one-off net wealth levy in crisis times as a tool to ward off a …

Recent research in contract theory on the effects of behavioral biases implicitly assumes that they are stable, in the … case. We show that in an insurance context, being insured against losses that may be incurred in a real-effort task changes … subjects' self-confidence. Our novel experimental design allows us to disentangle selection into insurance from the effects of …