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 …

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 …

reduction in homeownership across generations. Lower-income households find it harder to buy housing, and as a result accumulate … less wealth. …

wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income … political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios. …

wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income … political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios. …

wealth-income ratios found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) extend to small and less developed economies. The findings reveal …This study uses new data on Swedish national wealth over the last two hundred years to examine whether the patterns in … both similarities and differences. During the industrialization era, Sweden's domestic wealth was relatively low because of …