This working paper has been presented and discussed at the October 2002 OECD National Accounts Experts Meeting. The objective of the paper is two fold: (1) present comparable results for household financial and non financial assets and liabilities for Europe, the USA and Japan, (2) analyse the...

[eng] News way of managing savings views of the socio-economics of savings. Macro and socio-economics of savings have always been kept apart. Ii is a pity, since progress obtained by the former is most likely related to thorough appraisal of the latter. Two socio-economic approaches are proposed...

This working paper has been presented and discussed at the October 2002 OECD National Accounts Experts Meeting. The objective of the paper is two fold: (1) present comparable results for household financial and non financial assets and liabilities for Europe, the USA and Japan, (2) analyse the...

[eng] Analyzing households’ saving behavior and wealth accumulation requires a great deal of information. This information needs, in addition, to be harmonized across countries. Despite recent progress achieved in Europe - with the introduction of the new European System of Accounts...

[eng] In Europe as well as in the United States, a rapid increase of households’ wealth occurred throughout the 1995 to 1999 period. Important capital gains, resulting both from the end of the real estate crisis, on the property market, and from positive stock markets developments, added up to...