This paper describes the composition and distribution of household wealth in Italy. First, the evolution of household portfolios over the last 40 years is described on the basis of newly reconstructed aggregate balance sheets. Second, the characteristics and quality of the main statistical...

La versione italiana di questo documento è disponibile al seguente link: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=3429937" http://ssrn.com/abstract=3429937.The paper examines the intergenerational persistence of economic conditions in terms of education, income and wealth, and the importance of starting...

This paper provides a reconstruction of the joint distribution of Italian households' income and wealth in the years ranging from 1968 to 1975. Exploiting the information available in some historical reports recently published by the Bank of Italy, the paper reconstructs synthetic microdata...