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Essays on the economics of intergenerational wealth transfers

Werder, Marten von - 2019

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Intergenerational transfers : how do they shape the German wealth distribution?

Werder, Marten von - 2018

. This study adds to the discussion by providing causal estimates for the effect of transfer receipt on the savings behavior … of households. The model allows for dynamic adjustment and variations in the savings behavior over the wealth … transfer volume, the transfer incidence over the wealth distribution and the effect of the savings behavior. The results are …

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Housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution : evidence and stylized facts

Causa, Orsetta; Woloszko, Nicolas; Leite, David - 2019

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 questions: i) How is homeownership and housing tenure...

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Life cycle saving and dissaving revisited across three-tiered income groups : starting hypotheses, refinement through literature review, and ideas for empirical testing

Holzmann, Robert; Ayuso, Mercedes; Alaminos, Estefanía; … - 2019

The lifecycle approach is the workhorse to model saving decisions of individuals. It conjectures individuals preferring a constant consumption stream across their lifecycle saving till retirement and dis-saving thereafter. The reality is often at odd with this assumption giving rise to our...

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Retirement sorted? : the adequacy and optimality of wealth among the near-retired

Crawford, Rowena; O'Dea, Cormac - 2014

Much of the focus of the UK pensions policy debate over the past decade has been on the adequacy (or otherwise) of private retirement saving. In this paper, we present the first assessment of the optimality of the retirement resources of English couple households born in the 1940s. Here,...

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