[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...

[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...

[fre] On a souvent une vue trop partielle des mécanismes en cause dans l’étude de l’accumulation patrimoniale des différents agents économiques. D’un point de vue didactique, il est utile de décrire, en une vingtaine de relations simples, les principales phases de ce processus en...