. Distributional information on households' wealth is available from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points … quarterly distributional national wealth by (i) improving the alignment of survey fieldwork periods with the national accounts … time series; and (v) computing euro area aggregates. This paper finds an increase in the net wealth Gini of most euro area …

their mark on the German wealth distribution. Households at the top made substantial capital gains from rising business … wealth while the middle-class had large capital gains in the housing market. The wealth share of the bottom 50% has halved …'s current wealth-income ratio is about 120 percentage points higher than previously thought. …

trends have left their mark on the German wealth distribution. Households at the top made substantial capital gains from … rising business wealth while the middle-class had large capital gains in the housing market. The wealth share of the bottom …German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime …

trends have left their mark on the German wealth distribution. Households at the top made substantial capital gains from … rising business wealth while the middle-class had large capital gains in the housing market. The wealth share of the bottom …German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime …

trends have left their mark on the German wealth distribution. Households at the top made substantial capital gains from … rising business wealth while the middle-class had large capital gains in the housing market. The wealth share of the bottom …German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime …

, dealing with cross‐country distributions of wealth and income, across broad swaths of time, through a cross‐disciplinary lens …

of the levied assets. We analyze both problems focusing on a capital tax, the annual wealth tax (WT), which is only …Capital taxation is currently under debate, basically due to problems of administrative control and proper assessment … us to describe the evolution of wealth concentration in Spain along 1983-2001. On average top 1% holds about 18% of total …

striking differences across cantons, both in levels and trends. Combining this with variation in cantonal wealth taxes, we then …Like in many other countries, wealth inequality has increased in Switzerland over the last fifty years. By providing … new evidence on cantonal top wealth shares for each of the 26 cantons since 1969, we show that the overall trend masks …

How does wealth taxation differ from capital income taxation? When the return on investment is equal across individuals … generate more income pay higher taxes. Under wealth taxation, entrepreneurs who have similar wealth levels pay similar taxes … parameterized to match the US data, replacing the capital income tax with a wealth tax in a revenue-neutral fashion delivers a …