families in Japan, and the distribution of wealth within Japanese cohorts by household composition. The central point of … evidence (contrary to popular belief) of a relationship between household composition and the wealth …This paper is a critique of the literature on transfer wealth accumulation in Japan during the postwar period. The …

This study theoretically considers household behavior with wealth preference and empirically investigates the validity … of insatiable wealth preference using a nationally representative survey. With wealth preference, the marginal rate of … increase and has a strictly positive lower bound, implying the insatiability of wealth preference. This property plays a …

light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …

liabilities for Europe, the USA and Japan, (2) analyse the change in the composition of household gross and net wealth of these …. The paper then discusses global and detailed compared trends of household wealth between countries ... … objective of the paper is two fold: (1) present comparable results for household financial and non financial assets and …