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Is the top tail of the wealth distribution the missing link between the Household Finance and Consumption Survey and national accounts?
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| Titel: | Is the top tail of the wealth distribution the missing link between the Household Finance and Consumption Survey and national accounts?/ Robin Chakraborty, Ilja Kristian Kavonius, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, Philip Vermeulen |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| veröffentlicht: |
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
European Central Bank
[2018]
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| Gesamtaufnahme: |
Europäische Zentralbank: Working paper series ; no 2187 (October 2018)
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| Quelle: | Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen |
| Zusammenfassung: | The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly designed to be representative of all households, aggregating these micro data should correspond to the macro aggregates. In practice, however, differences are large. We first discuss conceptual and generic differences between those two sources of data. Thereafter we investigate missing top tail observation from wealth surveys as a source of discrepancy. By fitting a Pareto distribution to the upper tail, we provide an estimate of how much of the gap between the micro and macro data is caused by the underestimation of the top tail of the wealth distribution. Conceptual and generic differences as well as missing top tail observations explain part of the gap between financial accounts and survey aggregates. |
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 36 Seiten) |
| ISBN: |
9789289932929
9289932929 |
| DOI: | 10.2866/77061 |