-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 estimates the magnitude of pension wealth and compares pension wealth to net worth for households in the … 1983 Survey of Consumer Finance (SCF). The SCF is the first data set to provide detailed information on both household … likely to be more accurate than the pension data used in previous studies. Pension wealth was estimated under two sets of …

English couple households born in the 1940s. Here, 'optimal' wealth holdings are those that allow households to enjoy the same … calculate this level of wealth, and compare that with how much wealth households are observed to hold. We find that the majority … of households hold more wealth than our model suggests is optimal and that this would still be true even if housing …

an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several …This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on …-economic characteristics such as income, wealth and age? What is the weight of housing in households’ balance sheets and how does this vary …