Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215786 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Tax and Public Finance [ISSN:] 0927-5940 [Volume:] 26 [Issue:] 6 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 1234-1258
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin
Abstract: 
We analyse the top tail of the wealth distribution in France, Germany, and Spain using the first and second waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be under-represented in household surveys, we integrate big fortunes from rich lists, estimate a Pareto distribution, and impute the missing rich. In addition to the Forbes list, we rely on national rich lists since they represent a broader base of the big fortunes in those countries. As a result, the top 1% wealth share increases notably for the three selected countries after imputing the top wealth. We find that national rich lists can improve the estimation of the Pareto coefficient in particular when the list of national USD billionaires is short.
Subjects: 
Wealth distribution
Missing rich
Pareto distribution
HFCS
JEL: 
D31
C46
C81
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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