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...

This paper is concerned with the subject of how the three main approaches to model aggregate fluctuations are related. That is, we are interested in the relation between real business cycle models, endogenous business cycle models and sunspot equilibria models. It is shown that there exists an...

The paper considers a simple "three goods" model in which firms simultaneously decide hiring workers. The production is sold later at a market clearing price; the buyers'purchasing power depend on their income, that itself depends on the firms'previous decisions. The rational expectations...

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...