outcomes. This paper studies the effects of slavery on black-white wealth inequality upon the emancipation of slaves in the US … using historical data.The purpose of wealth has varied from over time. From an economics perspective, wealth is the …, such that they have an incentive to accumulate material wealth for inter-temporal household consumption and social …

banks collect such information through income and wealth surveys, which are often used to inform their decisions. These …

remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of … individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks …. Using the wealth component of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find that, on average, members of western …

and wealth in Turkey, arising from equity and housing market channels over the period from 1998 Q1 to 2016 Q2. We employ … analysis are used for verifying the effects of shocks. The results suggest that income, credit and housing wealth are … positively, interest rate and equity market wealth are negatively associated with consumption. Variance decomposition and impulse …

their wealth ownership. Using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), we document a positive average … migrant wealth gap between migrant and native households. However, the raw gap is almost negligible for second generation … migrant households, whereas it rises across the unconditional net wealth distribution for first generation migrant households …

correlation of the number of billionaires, billionaires' wealth, and the GDP per-capita, as reported in Prinz (2016). Although … positive correlation of the number and wealth of billionaires with GDP per-capita is robust for the complete sample of …