We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features … consumption inequality and wealth inequality. Second, a pension system reform from a defined benefit to a defined contribution … works to reinforce consumption inequality and reduce wealth inequality. Third, minimum pension benefits are able to …

We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features … consumption inequality and wealth inequality. Second, a pension system reform from a defined benefit to a defined contribution … works to reinforce consumption inequality and reduce wealth inequality. Third, minimum pension benefits are able to …

on inequality, but this effect has waned over time due to the growing importance of assets in lifetime wealth portfolios … wealth portfolios. We estimate the distribution of human wealth using nonparametric identification results that allow for … processes or utility. Accounting for the value of human capital delivers a different view of inequality: (i) in 2016 the top 10 …

A method to impute consumption expenditure inequality between wealth groups in the Survey of Consumer Finances is … increases in wealth inequality have passed through to consumption. Repeating this exercise in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … provided, allowing for measurement error that is correlated with income and wealth. Identification is derived from observing …

human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent‐income inequality, though its influence is diminished by the growing importance … of assets in lifetime wealth. Average expenditures and CE inequality roughly doubled between 1983 and 2016 and, to weigh … consumption, as well as uncertainty and demographic composition. Rising inequality has offset about 1/4 of the welfare gains from …

among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality … while house price increases do the opposite. Inheritances exacerbate absolute wealth inequality but reduce rel …-ative inequality. Wealth inequality declined in advanced Western countries during the first half of the 20th century, then stabilized …

economic development. Although contemporary inequality is much lower than early 20th-century figures, the 'real' wealth of …Despite its relevance in 19th-century economics, wealth -its accumulation, composition, and distribution- has largely …, Italy presented a historically high value of total private wealth but had relatively small relevance in total bequests flows …

This paper compares the main findings from the third wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for … of homeownership in Malta, the median net wealth in Malta was estimated to be significantly higher than in the euro area …

Preferences over wealth can explain why households do not spend more when real interest rates fall, because they save … more than optimal under a standard model. However, little is known about preferences over wealth empirically. We run an … wealth, consistent with wealth entering the utility function directly. …