Abstract

GUERRERO-DE-LIZARDI, Carlos. An imperfect approach for looking at the distribution of financial and non-financial wealth in Mexico 1984-2012. Rev. mex. econ. finanz [online]. 2015, vol.10, n.2, pp.145-158. ISSN 2448-6795.

Our purpose is to analyze the degree of concentration of household financial and non-financial wealth in Mexico during a period of intense economic reforms. Unlike the imputation method proposed by Davies et al. (2006 and 2010), we propose an observed data approach based on micro data. In a attempt to overcome the lack of data, both approaches have points of criticism, and its results should be taken with extreme caution. It is a welcomed statistical coincidence that, in 2000, wealth Gini figure estimated by Davies et al. (2006) and the one derived from the vehicles proposed here are almost equal. It suffices to say that, statistically speaking, we live in an almost perfectly unequal world, of which Mexico is a clear example.

Keywords : Wealth Gini; Automobiles; Consumer Durables; Statistical measurements of Economic well-being.