This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private …, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous … investigations of national wealth, compares their estimates with the new ones and discusses method approaches and measurement …

This study uses new data on Swedish national wealth over the last two hundred years to examine whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) extend to small and less developed economies. The findings reveal … both similarities and differences. During the industrialization era, Sweden's domestic wealth was relatively low because of …

This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private …, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous … investigations of national wealth, compares their estimates with the new ones and discusses method approaches and measurement …

This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …

This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …

Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run links between the aggregate role of capital in the economy and the size …

This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on … developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate … among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality …

This essay presents arguments for why precise and reliable estimates of top incomes and top wealth holdings are … important for the economic analyses of issues concerning income and wealth distribution. First, I outline the most common … evidence of the Swedish concentration of income and wealth are sketched. Finally, I make some suggestions for future research …