This paper compares the main findings from the third wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for … Malta with those for the euro area. This comparative report finds that in 2016 the median Maltese household held more real … of homeownership in Malta, the median net wealth in Malta was estimated to be significantly higher than in the euro area …

This paper compares the main findings from the fourth wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for … Malta with those for the euro area. This comparative report finds that in 2020 the median Maltese household held more real … of homeownership in Malta, the median net wealth in Malta was estimated to be significantly higher than in the euro area …

This report summarises the methodologies used in the fourth wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption … Survey, which provides household-level data collected in a harmonised way in all 19 euro area countries, as well as in the …

subdued as household income increases, since at that point real estate wealth becomes dominant. Finally, we discover that …This paper analyzes the distribution of household portfolios in Türkiye using a fresh data set, the Central Bank of the … Republic of Türkiye - Household Finance and Consumption Survey. The empirical analysis concentrates on the motives behind …

holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly …The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset …. Thereafter we investigate missing top tail observation from wealth surveys as a source of discrepancy. By fitting a Pareto …

holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly …The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset …. Thereafter we investigate missing top tail observation from wealth surveys as a source of discrepancy. By fitting a Pareto …

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …

fluctuations in household wealth have driven major swings in economic activity. This paper considers so-called wealth effects - the … impact of changes in wealth on household consumption and the overall macroeconomy. There is an extensive existing literature …The effect of wealth on consumption is an issue of longstanding interest to economists. Analysts believe that …

This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys … assets, and wealth held through trusts. Both household surveys and tax data remain insufficient to properly capture capital …, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by …