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Davies, James B.; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 605-675). 2000

This chapter is concerned with the distribution of personal wealth, which usually refers to the material assets that can be sold in the marketpace, although on occasion pension rights are also included. We summarise the available evidence on wealth distribution for a number of countries. This...

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A Study on Investment Behavior of Middle Class Households in Nagpur

Samudra, Aparna; Burghate, Dr Mukul - 2021

The aim of this research was to examine the investment behaviour of the middle income class households in Nagpur. The …. The research has been conducted to answer few important questions on the preference of the investment instruments … & investment pattern of the middle class households, to know the various objectives of investment of the middle income class …

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The Impact of Stock and Real Estate Returns on the Propensity of Households to Meet the Capital Accumulation Ratio Guideline

Letkiewicz, Jodi - 2014

The current study investigates the impact of substantial economic fluctuations on household portfolios and analyzes how the fluctuations influence households' propensities to meet the capital accumulation ratio threshold of 25%. The 1992 to 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances datasets were analyzed...

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Analyzing factors affecting financial literacy and its impact on investment behavior among adults in India

Gangwar, Rachna; Singh, Ritvik - 2018

Financial literacy is essential for making key financial decisions related to saving, borrowing and investment … financial literacy on investment behavior. Primary data from 309 respondents across India was collected for the purpose of the …. Unexpectedly, financial literacy was found to have no effect on investment behavior. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this …

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Environmental-Social-Governance preferences and Investments in crypto-assets

Ciaian, Pavel; Cupák, Andrej; Fessler, Pirmin; Kancs, … - 2022

association between investors' ESG preferences and the crypto-investment exposure but no significant relationship for the …

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Financialization and capital accumulation

Medeiros, Carlos A. de; Amico, Fabian - In: Journal of economic issues 53 (2019) 2, pp. 587-594

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Imputing consumption from Norwegian income and wealth registry data

Fagereng, Andreas; Halvorsen, Elin - 2015

Data on consumption expenditure of the household is essential in a wide array of economic research. This includes both topics in micro as well as macroeconomics. However, obtaining a consistent and precise measure of household consumption has proven notoriously difficult. This paper documents a...

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What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?

Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, Ola Lotherington - 2020

A major difficulty faced by researchers who want to study the consumption and savings behavior of households is the lack of reliable panel data on household expenditures. One possibility is to use surveys that follow the same households over time, but such data are rare and they typically have...

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Risky assets in Europe and the US: Risk vulnerability, risk aversion and economic environment

Bekhtiar, Karim; Fessler, Pirmin; Lindner, Peter - 2019

We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive as well as the intensive margin of risky assets, European households differ substantially from US households; but also inside Europe we document substantial differences....

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Judging the Quality of Survey Data by Comparison with 'Truth' as Measured by Administrative Records : Evidence from Sweden

Koijen, Ralph S. J. - 2014

We construct a new consumption measure as a residual from the budget constraint. Consumption is that part of income that is not used to increase assets. Our measurement relies on detailed Swedish registry data on the various sources of income and the composition of households' asset portfolio,...

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