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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Estimating the Top Tail of the Wealth Distribution

  • Philip Vermeulen
American Economic Review
vol. 106, no. 5, May 2016
(pp. 646–50)
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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.

Citation

Vermeulen, Philip. 2016. "Estimating the Top Tail of the Wealth Distribution." American Economic Review, 106 (5): 646–50. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161021

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JEL Classification

  • D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
  • H24 Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
  • K34 Tax Law