housing markets are therefore key to understanding personal portfolios, saving, the household distribution of wealth, and the …Housing is the single most important component of personal wealth in most countries. The special characteristics of … consumption of housing as a component of personal wealth. The impacts of rates of home ownership, credit market characteristics …

We explore the pattern of elderly homeownership using microeconomic surveys of 15 OECD countries, merging 60 national … household surveys on about 300,000 individuals. In all countries the survey is repeated over time, permitting construction of an …

housing wealth gains during the pandemic occurred among household segments with relatively low MPCs, such as households living … consume (MPC) out of changes in housing wealth was modest in the years leading up to the pandemic. In addition, the largest …

As significant part of national wealth, households' wealth is the central issue in both policy debate and academic … literature. Nevertheless, in Hungary little effort has been made so far to conduct thorough evaluation of households' wealth for … evaluation of Hungarian wealth and connects the development of wealth elements to economic events. Doing so, as a by-product, we …

Given differences in public saving programs between Sweden and the United States, an examination of household private … wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …

household financial assets. Our results suggest that banks information policies have the potential to be an effective tool to … increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …