Dear Sir or Madam, We have the pleasure of inviting you to the OeNB-HFCS Freitagsseminar with Alice Henriques Volz, Principal Economist at Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, which the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) will host. Title "Introducing and Using the Distributional Financial Accounts (of the United States)" Abstract This paper describes the construction of the Distributional Financial Accounts (DFAs), a new dataset containing quarterly estimates of the distribution of U.S. household wealth since 1989, and provides the first look at the resulting data. The DFAs build on two existing Federal Reserve Board statistical products --- quarterly aggregate measures of household wealth from the Financial Accounts of the United States and triennial wealth distribution measures from the Survey of Consumer Finances --- to incorporate distributional information into a national accounting framework. The DFAs complement other existing sources of data on the wealth distribution by using a more comprehensive measure of household wealth and by providing quarterly data on a timely basis. We encourage policymakers, researchers, and other interested parties to use the DFAs to help understand issues related to the distribution of U.S. household wealth. There have been many questions about how different U.S. household groups have fared economically through the severe disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Distributional Financial Accounts (DFAs), we consider how household wealth evolved over this time. However, the unprecedented events of the pandemic give reason to question the relevance of the historical relationships used for recent quarters in the DFAs, particularly due to the vast amount of fiscal support and reduced consumption that resulted in significant excess savings. We examine a few alternate scenarios for how deposits may be allocated, bounding the household wealth distribution for these recent quarters. Date Friday, 6 May 2022 | 04:00 PM Venue The event is planned online via Webex Conference language English To register, please follow this link: https://www.oenb-events.at/en/freitagsseminar_volz/registration/ Kind regards, OeNB Event Mangement Der Euro hat f?r uns alle viele Vorteile. Alle Infos zu 20 Jahre Euro-Bargeld unter: http://www.euroat20.at Diese E-Mail kann vertrauliche Informationen enthalten und irrt?mlich an Sie gelangt sein. In diesem Fall informieren Sie bitte sofort die Absenderin bzw. den Absender und vernichten Sie diese E-Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail oder von Teilen dieser Mail sind nicht gestattet. Informationen gem?? DSGVO zur Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten durch die OeNB finden Sie unter www.oenb.at/datenschutz<https://www.oenb.at/datenschutz>.