The dual motives of housing behavior, consumption and investment make the analysis of housing purchases quite difficult. Nevertheless, it is better to refer to a model that keeps the two dimensional aspect of housing (Henderson and Ioannides [16]). In the absence of institutional considerations,...

Cette etude vise a reconstituer la trajectoire d'une lignee ascendante agnatique dans un cadre rural aux XIXe et XXe siecles et a en decrire les logiques d'accumulation et de transmission du patrimoine a partir des modeles economiques du paradigme neoclassique. L'itineraire patrimonial des six...

Wealth is highly concentrated among a few very rich individuals. The usual models of wealth transmission offer life-cycle and family motives for bequests. The hypothesis here is that those motives are not likely to be active for very rich individuals. Using a sample of French estate records...