Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro-area countries. First, we …

Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well‐being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro‐area countries. First, we …

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 …

Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities …. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter … households despite their similar incomes. The average (median) net wealth difference is estimated to be €367,000 (€129,000) and …

wealth across euro area countries that await explanation. This paper focuses on three main factors for the wealth … three factors, in addition to the common household and demographic factors, are relevant for the net wealth accumulation … particular in homeownership rates and house price dynamics, are important for explaining wealth differences across euro area …

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … determining its location in the wealth distribution. A generalized ordered probit model is estimated to explain the role played by … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … determining its location in the wealth distribution. A generalized ordered probit model is estimated to explain the role played by … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …

evidence that wealth is heavily concentrated at the upper tail of the wealth distribution. A commonly cited number for the US … is that 1 percent of the households hold 30 percent of total household wealth. I investigate the reliability of upper … tail wealth estimates from household wealth surveys in the presence of survey differential non-response, i.e. the fact that …