[ger] Messung der individuellen Präferenzen für die Gegenwart . Laut mikroökonomischer Theorie hängen die Entscheidungen des Sparers im Lebenszyklus von seinem Grad des Wertverlusts der Zukunft ab, das heißt vom subjektiven . Abzinsungssatz, mit dessen Hilfe er seine künftige...

[fre] Patrimoine des ménages : toujours le logement, mais aussi les actifs de précaution . Les résultats d'une enquête de 1992, par rapport à une enquête similaire réalisée en 1986, montrent que les épargnants ont un intérêt grandissant pour les produits d'épargne financière longue...

[eng] Sums of Wealth and Assets: The Quality and Representativeness of Household Declarations . The greatest disparities between the estimates of wealth accounts and the Financial Assets survey estimates are to be found to varying degrees in the financial assets, in the housing liable to be...

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...

[eng] The Uneven Sharing of Estates between Brothers and Sisters . Estates favouring one or more direct heirs to the detriment of the others seems to be less frequent in France than in the United States. French legislation limits the sum to which will clauses may unevenly share estates between...

Only few empirical studies of intergeneration transfers using historical data have considered the period when the State intervened relatively little in family life and when financial institutions were far less- developed than they are today. This paper uses historical data from the "3 000...

Most models of family transfers consider only two generations and focus on two motives: altruism and exchange. They also assume perfect substitution between inter vivos financial transfers and bequests to children. On the contrary, this survey of recent developments in the literature emphasizes...

This paper has considered the dynamics of financial portfolio choice by French households, using data from the ECHP over the period 1994-2001. The panel data allow us to test a number of theoretical predictions which are difficult to analyse with cross-section data: life cycle effects,...

This article considers four models of household wealth accumulation, which differ principally in terms of the length of the time horizon. The myopic model is characterised by a very short time horizon, with models levels of wealth tracking income, while life-cycle models suppose that individuals...