[eng] Individual factors of wealth composition : France 1980 . . This paper presents a first sketch of a general model of portfolio choices which is tested on the French CREP 1980 survey with 3.000 households. The model extends the framework of Modigliani's Life Cycle Hypothesis to wealth...

[eng] The test is conducted on french wealth accumulation processes of the postwar period. The data are derived from longitudinal observations that we try to " purge " from Urne effects — either calender time or cohort specific effects — to allow for a direct comparison with life cycle...

[fre] Le patrimoine des salariés et inactifs de 1949 à 1967 . . Afin d'étudier les inégalités dans la distribution des fortunes, les auteurs ont formalisé les processus d'accumulation des patrimoines des ménages. A partir de conditions initiales — distribution des patrimoines selon...

[eng] Social security and saving : the French case . D. Kessler, A. Masson, D. Strauss-Kahn. Has the development of social security on a pay-as-you-go basis induced a decrease of household private saving, and hence, of capital formation ? This question has raised an important debate both on the...