Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist … the association between household wealth portfolios at the intensive margin (the level of assets) and household …-country differences in asset and debt levels, except for housing wealth, which displays large unexplained differences for both the under …

changes in income distribution and in private wealth on consumption and investment covering a period from as early as 1855 …-Keynesian debate on the nature of demand regimes, mainstream analyses of wealth effects and the financialisation debate. We find that … shares, which is driven by residential investment. For corporate investment alone, we find a negative relation. Wealth …

We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth … and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between …