The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial …

insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …

We study the distribution of housing wealth in Italy using data from a sample survey (the survey on household income … and wealth) and from administrative records regarding real estate owners held by the Italian Department of the Treasury … adjusting survey data using the information from the administrative records, average housing wealth increases by some 25 per …

The Panel on Household Finances (PHF) is a new panel survey on household finances and wealth in Germany conducted by …

Wealth surveys tend to underestimate wealth concentration at the top due to the "missing rich" problem. We propose a … new way of improving the credibility of wealth surveys: We make them consistent with tabulated income tax data. This is … years and collects data on both income and wealth. Consistency is achieved by calibrating survey weights using the income …

limits that are considered tolerable. The wealth of Greek households, as captured by the survey in 2009, was composed mainly … inheritances. With regard to net wealth, despite the lower mean relative to the euro area mean net wealth, the median household in … 2009 had net wealth close the median euro area household, a finding that was attributed to the high homeownership rate in …

The Panel on Household Finances (PHF) is a new panel survey on household finances and wealth in Germany conducted by …. -- Survey data ; household panel ; family economics ; household finance ; wealth distribution ; portfolio choice …

net wealth, income, age and housing status distributions for the euro area as a whole and for individual countries, and … remaining constant. Households in the lower end of the net wealth and income distribution, younger households and mortgagors …