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 …

In Denmark, there is a long-standing tradition for estimating the stock of national wealth. However, the most recent … earlier estimates and present new annual time series estimates on the stock of national wealth in Denmark 1845-2013 based on a … our national wealth is broadly in line with the most recent international national-accounts guidelines. As robustness …

equalized. This article contributes to the discussion by studying the determinants of retirement wealth across a range of … ethnicities, including White, Pasifika and Asian. Differences in retirement wealth between ethnic groups is relatively unexplored … economic factors are the main determinants of retirement wealth. Gender and ethnicity are found to be a strong predictor of …

Inherited wealth has attracted much attention recently, much due to the research by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2011; 2014 … of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and … nineteenth century because the country was so poor, Sweden is “un-European” today because so much wealth formation has taken …

This paper analyzes new evidence on long-run trends in aggregate wealth accumulation and wealth inequality in Western … countries. The new findings suggest that wealth-income ratios were lower before World War I than previously claimed, that wealth … concentration fell over the past century and has remained low in Europe but increased in the United States, that wealth has changed …

This paper analyzes new evidence on long-run trends in aggregate wealth accumulation and wealth inequality in Western … countries. The new findings suggest that wealth-income ratios were lower before World War I than previously claimed, that wealth … concentration fell over the past century and has remained low in Europe but increased in the United States, that wealth has changed …