High household wealth is often cited as a key strength of the Italian economy. Both in absolute terms and relative to … income, the Italian household sector is wealthier than most euro area peers. A sizable fraction of this wealth is held by the … rich and upper middle classes. This paper documents the changes in the Italian household sector's financial wealth over the …

contribution of this role to rising wealth concentration among American households. I highlight the following points: 1) financial … globalization raises wealth inequality in a financially-developed economy initially due to foreign capital pressing up domestic … households to reallocate wealth toward risky assets while impoverished households increase their debt. Wealth concentration …

We attempt to disentangle income and wealth effects on consumption by disaggregating both the different types of income … and wealth. We estimate a consumption function for a panel of quarterly data for 14 advanced economies spanning 1998 to … different components of income and wealth. While fiscal policy had direct effects on consumption, the analysis suggests that …

This paper analyzes the existence of 'wealth effects' derived from net equity (in the form of housing, financial assets …-2017. Overall, wealth effects are found to be relatively large and significant for housing wealth, but less so for other types of … wealth, including stocks. Furthermore, the analysis shows how these estimated marginal propensities to consume (MPC) from …

We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years of population … of wealth between safe and risky assets: returns are heterogeneous even within asset classes. Third, returns are … positively correlated with wealth: moving from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the financial wealth distribution increases the …