holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly …The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset …. Thereafter we investigate missing top tail observation from wealth surveys as a source of discrepancy. By fitting a Pareto …

holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly …The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset …. Thereafter we investigate missing top tail observation from wealth surveys as a source of discrepancy. By fitting a Pareto …

This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys … assets, and wealth held through trusts. Both household surveys and tax data remain insufficient to properly capture capital …, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by …

During the period leading up to the recession of 2007-08, there was a large increase in household debt relative to …. It is sometimes claimed that these three developments were closely linked. In these stories, the rise in household debt … ask if this story is consistent with the empirical evidence. In particular, I ask five questions: How much household …

sustainability-focused wealth accounts. Typical bookend assumptions of the social planner optimally managing natural capital versus …

. Distributional information on households' wealth is available from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points … quarterly distributional national wealth by (i) improving the alignment of survey fieldwork periods with the national accounts … time series; and (v) computing euro area aggregates. This paper finds an increase in the net wealth Gini of most euro area …

Macroeconomic aggregates on households' wealth have a long tradition and are widely used to analyse and compare … Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) constitutes a rich source of micro data that can be used to link macro … aggregates with distributional information to compile Distributional National Accounts for wealth. Computing aggregates from this …

How much wealth has accumulated in the region and how is it distributed across households? Despite being widely … recognized for its extreme income inequality, reliable data on wealth is scarce, partial and oftentimes contradictory, making it … aggregate wealth increased over two decades in four countries, now ranging close to 3.5 the national income for market value …

The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides valuable information for the monetary policy and financial … optimization problem that aims at preserving for each wealth instrument the level of inequality measured by the Gini coefficient … wealth discrepancies across the households. Finally, based on the German HFCS, we compare the findings with another approach …