This paper compares the main findings from the third wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for … of homeownership in Malta, the median net wealth in Malta was estimated to be significantly higher than in the euro area …

This paper compares the main findings from the fourth wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for … of homeownership in Malta, the median net wealth in Malta was estimated to be significantly higher than in the euro area …

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 …We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …

inequality over the life cycle and of the individual-level degree of consumption insurance against persistent earnings shocks …). Allowing for richer earnings dynamics implies a substantially better profit of the evolution of cross-sectional consumption … generate enough concentration at the upper tail of the wealth distribution. …

evolution of wealth inequality measures. Our findings suggest that expansionary monetary policy shocks lead to an increase in … wealth inequality and contributed significantly to its fluctuations. This effect is heterogenous across the wealth …We use detailed micro information at household level from the Wealth and Assets Survey to construct measures of wealth …

This article summarizes the main findings from the fourth wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS …. The HFCS provides household-level data on assets, liabilities, wealth and income. As such, it plays an important role in …

Understanding the drivers of wealth transfers during life is crucial to understanding the intergenerational … transmission of inequality, the optimal design of social insurance, and the efficacy of expansionary fiscal policy. To shed light … on this, we analyse the relationships between giving and receiving significant wealth transfers and experiencing key life …