This paper studies the relationship between consumption and wealth based on the concept of cointegration. The analysis focuses on French data over the 1987 - 2006 period. This relationship is expressed in two ways: in terms of Marginal Propensity to Consume out of wealth (MPC) and in terms of...

This paper studies the relationship between consumption and assets wealth based on the concept of cointegration. The analysis focuses on French data on the 1987 to 2006 period. This relationship is expressed in two ways: Marginal Propensity to Consume approach and Elasticity approach. Three...

This paper investigates the relationship between French wealth and household consumption in a nonlinear context. At first, we update the previous French wealth effects estimates by taking into account the post subprime crisis period; we show that the wealth effect is still positive but only about...

Domestic and foreign forest products consumptions are considered imperfectly substitutable in the French Forest Sector Model (FFSM). This assumption is justified by product heterogeneities that depend on production places, by the consumers habits or by the market structure. It leads us to...