Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well‐being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro‐area countries. First, we …

deterministic systems, such as looking for multiple peaks in the stationary distribution of states. We develop Markov wealth … processes in which parents' investments in children stochastically determine children's wealth, and consequently their own … others, and that their presence dominates the stationary behavior of the wealth distribution. Typically, mass accumulates …

This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys …, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by … direct measurement of net worth, rescaling of reported wealth to balance sheet totals, and capitalization of income flows. We …

This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on … an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several …-economic characteristics such as income, wealth and age? What is the weight of housing in households’ balance sheets and how does this vary …