Using the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), a large micro-level dataset on households’ wealth in fifteen … participation as well as levels of asset holdings and investigate the systematic relationships between household characteristics and …

This article reviews the literature on international comparative household finance. It presents summary statistics on … household balance sheets for 13 developed countries and uses these statistics to discuss common features and contrasts across …

This paper reviews the literature on international comparative household finance. The paper presents summary statistics … on household balance sheets for 13 developed countries, and uses these statistics to discuss common features and …