We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk …

on wealth and lifetime earnings we evaluate measures of retirement preparedness. We estimate heterogeneous discount … have access only to a risk-free asset compared to when we account for the fact that much of their wealth is stored in …

equivalents it then calculates how much individual welfare is affected in each economy by unexpected losses and gains of wealth …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimate reduced form retirement and wealth equations. The …

We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twenty years of population … percentile. Second, heterogeneity in returns does not arise merely from differences in the allocation of wealth between safe and … risky assets: returns are heterogeneous even within asset classes. Third, returns are positively correlated with wealth …

.2. Among households age 30 to 70 with a head employed full-time, the ratio of equity assets to total wealth (net worth … plus human wealth) had a mean value of 4.2%.3. The decreases in stock market indexes between 2007 and 2009 had substantial … impacts on the wealth of only a small proportion of working households, with a mean potential loss in wealth due to stock …

This paper analyzes the determinants of the wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Japan using unique … bequest motives in explaining the lower than expected rates of wealth decumulation of the retired elderly. Taken together, our … expected wealth decumulation rate of the retired elderly, at least in the case of Japan, even though both precautionary saving …