inequality in household wealth in all 8 countries. …We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of … intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US …

Given differences in public saving programs between Sweden and the United States, an examination of household private … wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …

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 …

This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to … lower wealth levels than the rest of Europe, and the main explanation is that the Swedes were too poor to save their income …

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 …