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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300727
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346682
Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that allowing for these rich features of earnings dynamics, in the context of a structurally estimated life-cycle portfolio choice model, helps to rationalize the limited participation...
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This report summarises key stylised facts from the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption … Survey, which provides household-level data collected in a harmonised way in 15 euro area countries for a sample of more than … 62,000 households. The report presents results on household assets and liabilities, income, and indicators of consumption …
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household level data for 2007 and 2009 in the United States - the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that asset diversity … wealth distribution. Life changing situations such as getting divorced or losing one's job have a statistically significant …
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household level data for 2007 and 2009 in the United States - the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that asset diversity … wealth distribution. Life changing situations such as getting divorced or losing one’s job have a statistically significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149413
This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346131
This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347159
This study uses new data on Swedish national wealth over the last two hundred years to examine whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) extend to small and less developed economies. The findings reveal … both similarities and differences. During the industrialization era, Sweden's domestic wealth was relatively low because of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586572