This paper compares the main findings from the third wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for … Malta with those for the euro area. This comparative report finds that in 2016 the median Maltese household held more real … 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 … Malta with those for the euro area. This comparative report finds that in 2020 the median Maltese household held more real … of homeownership in Malta, the median net wealth in Malta was estimated to be significantly higher than in the euro area …

. The HFCS provides household-level data on assets, liabilities, wealth and income. As such, it plays an important role in …This article summarizes the main findings from the fourth wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS … macro statistics. The results also provide a glimpse of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household balance sheets and …

Understanding the drivers of wealth transfers during life is crucial to understanding the intergenerational … on this, we analyse the relationships between giving and receiving significant wealth transfers and experiencing key life … events. We use newly-available data from the UK Wealth and Assets Survey to investigate recipients’ self-reported transfer …

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

newly-available data from the Wealth and Assets Survey. We identify a number of new stylised facts. Gifts and loans are … quintile. By contrast, they are larger as a share of current wealth for those with lower wealth levels, illustrating the … appear to be driven by regional wealth differences, those in the South of England are substantially more likely to give gifts …

How much wealth has accumulated in the region and how is it distributed across households? Despite being widely … recognized for its extreme income inequality, reliable data on wealth is scarce, partial and oftentimes contradictory, making it … aggregate wealth increased over two decades in four countries, now ranging close to 3.5 the national income for market value …

This paper examines the impact of income inequality on consumption-related household indebtedness at the household … level. Using the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey data, the analysis sheds light on …-related household indebtedness in a small sample of countries. We further employ a multilevel regression model to also take country …

Although older generations have substantially more wealth than their recent predecessors did at the same age, younger … circumstances can rationalise slowing generation-on-generation wealth growth. I find no evidence that later-born generations are less … predicted to have higher consumption, despite accumulating no greater wealth, than their predecessors because their earnings are …