Estimating the Top Tail of the Wealth Distribution

Philip Vermeulen

American Economic Review, 2016, vol. 106, issue 5, 646-50

Abstract: This paper uses the Household Finance and Consumption Survey to construct new estimates of top wealth shares in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Finland and The Netherlands. It provides a methodology to address simultaneously non-response and underreporting in wealth surveys.

JEL-codes: D31 H24 K34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161021
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