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  1. The growing concentration of wealth in Italy: Evidence …

    • In a new paper (Acciari et al. 2021), we make use of newly assembled microdata on the inheritance tax records in Italy, a country with one of the highest wealth-to-income ratios in the developed world. The us… See more

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    Several adjustments are applied to the data. First, real estate cadastral values have to be brought in line with market prices. Second, the distribution of decedents … See more

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    Main Results

    Our estimates suggest that the wealth share of the top 1% (half a million individuals) increased from 16% in 1995 to 22% in 2016; the share accruing to the top 0.01% (the … See more

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    A Multi-Series Approach

    The production of our benchmark series involves a number of controversial imputation decisions, and this led us to produce series based on alternative choices. Gi… See more

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  1. In 2017 residential real estate accounted for almost half of the wealth of Italian households. The remaining wealth was mainly composed by other financial assets (19 percent), and currency and deposits (13 percent).
    www.statista.com/statistics/1181891/households-wealth-composition-by-asset-type-italy/
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