wealth income ratio (WIR) and on the distribution of wealth (WD), in the life cycle (LC) "egalitarian" model. We depart from …

-good framework, a quasi-luxury is de ned as a good whose marginal rate of substitution is increasing in wealth. Under certain …-necessities when they expect to be happier (unhappier) in the future. The preference for quasi-luxuries promotes optimal wealth …

-good framework, a quasi-luxury is de ned as a good whose marginal rate of substitution is increasing in wealth. Under certain …-necessities when they expect to be happier (unhappier) in the future. The preference for quasi-luxuries promotes optimal wealth …

The quality of match for each of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for France for 1989 and 2000 is …

between generations and repartition of the patrimony in France during the last two centuries. We first make a presentation of … of all the levels of wealth, but for the top of the largest fortunes. The paper describes the ways wealth is …

This paper examines the evolution of wealth distribution in France during the urbanization process of the nineteenth … based on scalar inequality indices and a non-parametric approach based on wealth density functions. Changes in the level of … wealth explained most of the spatial evolution of wealth during 1820-1939; at the turn of the century however, the effect of …

We examine the pattern of inter-vivos transfers and bequests in France, using both administrative records and household … surveys. We first present the French institutional and fiscal setting of wealth transmission; then the usual economic models …