“Welcome”

Salvatore Rossi
(Banca d’Italia, Head of the Economic Research Department)

“Introduction and Overview”

Timothy Smeeding
(LIS and Syracuse University),
Andrea Brandolini (Banca d’Italia),
Eva Sierminska (LWS)

“Current Status of LWS – A Progress Report”: Reactions and Questions

(version 2)
 

Eva Sierminska
(LWS)

“Household Wealth: Comparing Micro and Macro Data in Canada, Italy and the United States”
(REVISED 1/19/05)

Rochelle Antoniewicz
(Federal Reserve Board of Governors),
Riccardo Bonci (Banca d’Italia),
Andrea Generale (Banca d’Italia),
Grazia Marchese (Banca d’Italia),
Andrea Neri (Banca d’Italia),
Karen Maser (Statistics Canada) and
Patrick O’Hagan (Statistics Canada)

Discussants:
Enrico Giovannini (OECD) and
 Martin Schuerz (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)

“Assessing Risk in Household Portfolios: Progress and Open Issues at the Macro and Micro/Survey Level”
(REVISED 5/31/05)
 

Daniele Fano
(Pioneer Global Asset Management)

Discussant:
Monica Paiella
(Banca d’Italia)
Presentation
 

“Recent Research in Housing: Key Issues from the Economists’ Perspective”

James Banks
(Institute for Fiscal Studies, London)

Discussant:
Conchita D’Ambrosio (University of Milan “Bicocca” and DIW)

“The Measurement of Housing Wealth: Conceptual Issues and Practice”

(REVISED 06/05)

Andrea Neri (Banca d’Italia) and
Eva Sierminska (LWS)

Discussants:
Veli-Matti Törmälehto (Statistics Finland) and
Gareth Harper (Department for Work and Pensions, UK)

Presentation

“Measuring Housing Wealth”
(REVISED 5/6/05)

Karen Pence
Federal Reserve Board of Governors) and
Brian Bucks
(Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Discussant:
Markus Grabka (DIW, Berlin)

Presentation

Discussant:
James Davies (University of Western Ontario)

“Household Debt and Credit”

Giuseppe Bertola (University of Turin) and
Stefan Hochguertel (Free University of Amsterdam)

Discussant:
Michael Haliassos (Goethe University, Frankfurt)

Presentation
 

“The Measurement of Household Liabilities: Conceptual Issues and Practice”

Jonathan Crook
(University of Edinburgh)

Discussants:
Maarten van Rooij (De Nederlandsche Bank)

“Defining Household Wealth in Business”

Riccardo Bonci (Banca d’Italia),
Luigi Cannari (Banca d’Italia),
Alexandros Karagrigoriou
(University of Cyprus),
Grazia Marchese (Banca d’Italia) and
Andrea Neri (Banca d’Italia)
 

Discussant:
Fazley Siddiq (Dalhousie University)

“The Good Shepherd:

Sample Design and Control for Wealth Measurement in the Survey of Consumer Finances”

Arthur Kennickell
(Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Discussant:
Anders Klevmarken (Uppsala University)

 Presentation

“The Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF): Description and Methods of the 2002 Wave”

Olympia Bover
(Bank of Spain)

Discussant:
Anders Klevmarken (Uppsala University)

Presentation
 

“The Survey of Consumer Finances: Sampling and Surveying in Cyprus” (REVISED 05/04/05)

Alexandros Karagrigoriou
(University of Cyprus)

Discussant:
Anders Klevmarken (Uppsala University)

Presentation
 

“Consider the Source: Differences in Estimates of Income and Wealth from Survey and Tax Data”
 (REVISED 3/9/2005)

Barry Johnson
(Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service, USA) and
Kevin Moore
(Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
 

Discussant:
Anthony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Presentation
 

“The Estimate of Wealth Variations at the Household Level”

Giovanni D’Alessio (Banca d’Italia) and
Romina Gambacorta (Banca d’Italia)

Discussant:
Elin Halvorsen (Statistics Norway)

“Intergenerational Transfers – Accounting, Prediction and Motives”
 (REVISED 5/31/2005)

Henry Ohlsson
(Uppsala University)

Discussant:
Luc Arrondel (DELTA, Paris)

Presentation
 

“Methods for Summarizing and Comparing Wealth Distributions”

Stephen Jenkins (University of Essex) and
Markus Jäntti (Abo Akademi University)

Discussant:
Frank Cowell (London School of Economics)

Presentation
 

“Measurement Issues: Equivalence Scales, Accounting Framework and Reference Unit”
(REVISED 6/14/2005)
 

Eva Sierminska (LWS) and£
Timothy Smeeding
(LIS and Syracuse University)

Discussant:
Rolf Aaberge (Statistics Norway)
Presentation
 

“SHARE: Building a Panel Survey on Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe”

Axel Börsch-Supan,
Hendrik Jürges, and
Oliver Lipps
(University of Mannheim)
 

“Asset Estimation in the SHARE Survey”

Tullio Jappelli (University of Salerno) and Mario Padula (University of Salerno)

Discussant:
Elena Gouskova (ISR, University of Michigan)

“Wealth Holdings in Developing and Transition Countries”

James Davies
(University of Western Ontario) and
Anthony Shorrocks (UNU-WIDER)

Discussant:
Berk Ozler (World Bank)

Presentation
 

Presentation (REVISED 5/26/2005)
 

Janet Gornick
(LIS and Baruch College/CUNY, USA)