-quarter of total household wealth in Europe provides further corroboration for this finding. …In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and …

This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private …, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous … investigations of national wealth, compares their estimates with the new ones and discusses method approaches and measurement …

This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private …, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous … investigations of national wealth, compares their estimates with the new ones and discusses method approaches and measurement …

This paper examines the retirement decisions of Italian households using data from the Survey on Household Income and … Wealth (SHIW) for 2008. The analysis focuses on the adequacy of pension wealth, knowledge of supplementary retirement rules …, the determinants of enrollment decisions and workers' propensity to convert their wealth into an annuity at retirement …

given rise to a broad policy discussion of the adequacy of household retirement wealth. We construct a uniquely … comprehensive measure of wealth for households aged 51 and older in 2004 that includes expected wealth from Social Security, defined … surrounding asset returns, length of life and medical expenses, we assess the adequacy of wealth using two expected values: an …