[fre] Préférences individuelles et disparités du patrimoine . Les indicateurs individuels de préférences élaborés dans les articles précédents •scores, échelles, questions isolées, choix de loteries •ont-ils des effets sur les montants de patrimoine financier •net ou brut •qui...

[eng] Measuring Individual Time Preferences . Microeconomic theory makes a saver’s choices dependent on the lifecycle of his discount rate, or on the subjective discount rate he uses to anticipate his future gratifications. The higher this rate, the lower the savings level. This time...

This paper proposes different tests of the life cycle hypothesis, concerning the determinants of household portfolio choices. The theoretical approach is based upon the intertemporal portfolio choice model and focuses on market imperfections and the following duality of needs: lifecycle...

There is a capital taxation puzzle in most developed countries. Since the 1960s, revenues from wealth transfer taxation have been especially low and decreasing as a percentage of GDP, even to the extent of disappearing in quite a number of cases; by contrast, lifetime wealth or capital taxation...

Measuring individual preferences of savers have two main motivations: to reduce the share of non-observed heterogeneity in explaining households' wealth behaviors, and to construct more accurate tests of the theories of savings and portfolio choices. For France, we have constructed a unique data...

For a sub-sample of French households of an Insee wealth survey, we obtain new and relative measures of 5 individual preference parameters : the risk "attitude" (aversion, prudence...), the rate of time depreciation over the life-cycle, the degree of short-term impatience, and the degrees of...

In an extended variant of the life-cycle hypothesis, saving behaviour is shown to depend crucially on the interaction between two preference parameters : γ, which represents risk attitudes (aversion, prudence...), and δ, the rate of time depreciation. Hence, the predictions of four specific...