We address the question of whether the heterogeneity in savings is partly due to differences in pension wealth across … individuals and across countries, using a European harmonised wealth survey (HFCS) combined with estimates of pension wealth (OECD …). First, we find significant displacement effects of mandatory pension wealth on non-pension financial wealth at the mean, and …

. Finally, substantial crosscountry heterogeneity in marginal propensities to consume out of income and wealth components calls …

Globalisation has a major impact on the levels and distribution of wealth. The financial markets are highly integrated … wealth over the past 25 years. Nonetheless, this has not led to an equally large increase in property income because the … decrease in rates of return seems to contradict claims that, due to an increase in both financial and inherited wealth, we are …

This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth (MPC) both across and within … countries. We estimate the MPC based on a cross-country harmonized household level dataset which combines surveys on wealth … are very similar to those obtained on aggregate data and show substantial heterogeneity across countries. The wealth …