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...

Using the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), a large micro-level dataset on households? balance sheets in 15 euro area countries, this paper explores how households allocate their assets. We derive stylised facts on asset participation as well as levels...

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...

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 downward transfers and bequests. Based on French evidence, we show that parent-to-child transfers belong to three distinct...

Using the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), a large micro-level dataset on households' wealth in fifteen euro area countries, this paper explores how households allocate their assets. We derive stylized facts on asset participation as well as levels of asset holdings and...

[eng] From Theory to an Original Methodological Survey . Standard saving theory -which assumes the "exponential” discounting of future utilities through to the end of the life cycle and refers, under an uncertain future, to the criterion of expected utility -uses only two preference parameters...

[ger] "Bildung von Rücklagen für unvorhergesehene Ereignisse“, so begann Keynes (1936) seine Liste der "acht wichtigsten subjektiven Motive oder Gründe, weshalb die Menschen ihre Einkünfte nicht ausgeben möchten“. Für dieses Vorsichtssparen - insbesondere aufgrund der Unwägbarkeiten...