The household National Account published by the national statistical office presents a picture of the income, consumption and savings of households. It gives a measure of purchasing power within a consistent and integrated framework, which allows comparisons between countries. It is designed at...

Traditional structural models cannot distinguish whether changes in activity are a function of altered expectations today or lagged responses to past plans. Polynomial-adjustment-cost (PAC) models remove this ambiguity by explicitly separating observed dynamic behaviour into movements that have...

La crise mondiale et celle, plus récente, dans la zone euro ont eu tendance à raccourcir l’horizon prévisionnel et décisionnel de nombreux agents économiques. Dans le même temps, les incertitudes (sur l’emploi, les retraites…) poussent plutôt à la remontée du taux d’épargne des...

In the past twenty years, household wealth undergoes profound changes and in particular a notable increase of the share of financial wealth. The hike of stock market prices in the late 1990s, the burst of the speculative bubble since the summer of 2000 and the continued upsurge of housing prices...

L’Observatoire de l’épargne réglementée a remis au Parlement et au Gouvernement son premier rapport annuel portant sur la mise en place de la réforme généralisant la distribution du livret A.

Comme l’a montré la crise actuelle, les marchés immobiliers sont à l’origine de chocs macroéconomiques importants, ce qui justifie un suivi régulier du double point de vue de la politique monétaire et de la stabilité financière.

Le changement du régime fiscal et social des plans d’épargne logement (PEL) intervenu début 2006 a entraîné une décollecte massive sur ce type de placements et un report sur d’autres produits, ainsi qu’une réduction sensible des ressources longues des banques.

In this article, the author examines the maturity structure of the household sector's balance sheet and the degree of interest rate variability of household loans and financial assets. The bulk of households' interest-bearing assets and financial liabilities consists of medium- and long-term,...

Trusteed pension funds are one of the most important sources of retirement income for Canadians. They have also been one of the fastest-growing sectors of the Canadian financial market. Trusteed pension funds play an important role in capital markets, channelling billions of dollars of their...