Econometric analysis of the composition and distribution of private wealth in Germany

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Martin Biewen
• Subject Area: Statistics and Econometrics
• Term: from 2013 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 246178444

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

Das Projekt hat trotz der nur teilweisen Ausschöpfung der Mittel eine Reihe interessanter und relevanter Forschungsergebnisse zu den Determinanten der Portfoliozusammensetzung deutscher Haushalte, der Neigung deutscher Haushalte in riskanten Anlagen zu investieren sowie zu den Quellen der Unterschiede der Vermögensverteilung zwischen Ost-und Westdeutschland hervorgebracht.

Publications

• (2014): The Portfolio Structure of German Households: A Multinomial Fractional Response Approach with Unobserved Heterogeneity, University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 74
  Becker, Gideon
  
• (2015): Econometric Analysis of the Wealth Gap between East and West Germany, University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 87
  Becker, Gideon
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.15496/publikation-7117)
• (2015): Econometric Studies on Personal Wealth and Household Finance in Germany, Dissertation, Universität Tübingen
  Becker, Gideon
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.15496/publikation-7677)
• (2016): Labour income risk and households‘ risky asset holding, Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 33, pp. 262-280
  Becker, Gideon und Thomas Dimpfl
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-09-2014-0168)