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...

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...

[spa] Los comportamientos del ahorrador frente al riesgo y al tiempo . A la hora de elaborar un cuestionario «piloto» sobre las actitudes de los franceses respecto a lo incierto y al porvenir, hemos seguido un doble objetivo. Primero tratamos de definir el perfil de los individuos en función...

[fre] Gestion du risque et comportements patrimoniaux . Dans un contexte général de montée des incertitudes (aggravation du risque de chômage, financement des retraites, taux d'intérêt élevés, instabilité des structures familiales), les ménages ont adopté de nouveaux comportements...

[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...