We use detailed micro information at household level from the Wealth and Assets Survey to construct measures of wealth … evolution of wealth inequality measures. Our findings suggest that expansionary monetary policy shocks lead to an increase in … wealth inequality and contributed significantly to its fluctuations. This effect is heterogenous across the wealth …

from housing price increases. The capital gains from bond price increases (relative to household net wealth) do not … correlate with household net wealth (or income). Bond price increases thus leave net wealth inequality largely unchanged. In … contrast, equity price increases largely benefit the top end of the net wealth (and income) distribution, thus amplify net …

wealth in the euro area that have been triggered by the low-interest environment. The first debate refers to the development … of real yields on household wealth from 2000 to 2018, whereas the second debate deals with the mean-variance efficiency … of household portfolios. Contrary to widespread belief, we find that yields on total wealth, which were largely dominated …