median wealth plummeted by 44 percent over years 2007 to 2010, almost double the drop in housing prices. The inequality of … indebtedness. The sharp fall in median net worth and the rise in overall wealth inequality over these years are traceable primarily … disparity in wealth also widened considerably. Households under age 45 saw their relative and absolute wealth declined sharply …

optimal terminal wealth has significant downside protection, upside exposure, and a lottery component. We calculate that RDU … investors would pay 5% of their initial wealth to trade away from an optimal EU wealth allocation. The optimal dynamic trading …

affects job search behavior. We look at the effect of wealth at the entry into unemployment on the exit rate from unemployment … and illiquid parts, but also to decompose each of them into assets and liabilities. The decomposition of wealth into these … four components is key to understanding how wealth affects job finding rates. In particular, we show that liquid assets …

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income …

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 …