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Missing the wealthy in the HFCS : micro problems with macro implications
Chakraborty, Robin; Waltl, Sofie - 2018
Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) constitutes a rich source of micro data that can be used to link macro … may be the lack of the wealthiest households in the HFCS. This article combines a semi-parametric Pareto model estimated … from survey data and observations from rich lists with a stratification approach making use of HFCS portfolio structures to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864184
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Is the top tail of the wealth distribution the missing link between the Household Finance and Consumption Survey and national accounts?
Chakraborty, Robin; Kavonius, Ilja Kristian; … - 2018
The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly designed to be representative of all households, aggregating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011921042
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Estimating the distribution of household wealth in South Africa
Chatterjee, Aroop; Czajka, Léo; Gethin, Amory - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198851
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Wealth inequality in Latin America
Carranza, Rafael; De Rosa, Mauricio; Flores, Ignacio - 2023
How much wealth has accumulated in the region and how is it distributed across households? Despite being widely recognized for its extreme income inequality, reliable data on wealth is scarce, partial and oftentimes contradictory, making it difficult to an swer these ba sic qu estions. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536253
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Wealth inequality in Latin America
Carranza, Rafael; de Rosa, Mauricio; Flores, Ignacio - 2023
How much wealth has accumulated in the region and how is it distributed across households? Despite being widely recognized for its extreme income inequality, reliable data on wealth is scarce, partial and oftentimes contradictory, making it difficult to an swer these ba sic qu estions. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563957
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Estimating the distribution of household wealth in South Africa
Chatterjee, Aroop; Czajka, Léo; Gethin, Amory - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424032
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Is the Top Tail of the Wealth Distribution the Missing Link Between the Household Finance and Consumption Survey and National Accounts?
Chakraborty, Robin; Kavonius, Ilja Kristian; … - 2021
The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly designed to be representative of all households, aggregating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315397
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Developing reconciled quarterly distributional national wealth : insight into inequality and wealth structures
Engel, Janina; Riera, Pau Gayà; Grilli, Joseph; Sola, … - 2022
Distributional accounts for households enable measurement, study developments and identify drivers of inequality. Distributional information on households' wealth is available from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points in time (2009 - 2018), while aggregates are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285967
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On the estimation of distributional household wealth : addressing under-reporting via optimization problems with invariant Gini coefficient
Engel, Janina; Ohlwerter, Dennis; Scherer, Matthias - 2023
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides valuable information for the monetary policy and financial … stability purposes. The dataset shows, however, inconsistencies with National Account (NtlA) statistics, as the aggregated HFCS … wealth discrepancies across the households. Finally, based on the German HFCS, we compare the findings with another approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014482886
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Multidimensional wealth inequality : a hybrid approach toward distributional national accounts in Europe
Waltl, Sofie - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216246