49We define liquid financial assets as the sum of transaction accounts (deposits), CDs, bonds, stocks, and
mutual funds. We take the same approach as before: we match the fraction of liquid financial assets
held by the top ,
,
, and
percent of the population (in the SCF1998), while at
the same time matching the aggregate liquid financial assets-to-income ratio (which is 3.9 in the
SCF1998).