Household wealth in the euro area: The importance of intergenerational transfers, homeownership and house price dynamics

Thomas Mathä, Alessandro Porpiglia and Michael Ziegelmeyer

No 201412, MEA discussion paper series from Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy

Abstract: Results from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey reveal substantial variation in household net wealth across euro area countries that await explanation. This paper focuses on three main factors for the wealth accumulation process, i) homeownership, ii) housing value appreciation and iii) intergenerational transfers. We show that these three factors, in addition to the common household and demographic factors, are relevant for the net wealth cumulation process in all euro area countries, and moreover that, using various decomposition techniques, differences therein, in particular in homeownership rates and house price dynamics, are important for explaining wealth differences across euro area countries.

JEL-codes: C42 D31 E21 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06-01
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