The influence of parents’ savings behaviour on that of their children has often been remarked. This paper attempts to explain this “poids d’Anchise” via a unique French dataset collected by DELTA and TNS-Sofres in 2002 (Pat€r survey), which contains both savings and subjective...

Like father, like son: is the bequest behavior of children “inherited” from that of their parents? Most economic models (altruistic, paternalistic or exchange models) postulate that bequest behavior does not depend per se on parents’ behavior. Yet because of data limitations, few empirical...

[spa] ¿Qué se puede deducir de los estudios relativos a las transferencias patrimoniales en Francia? . por Luc Arrondel y André Masson.. . Los motivos y la práctica de transmisión de los franceses constituían hasta hace poco tiempo un ámbito casi inexplorado. Para lograr una visión...

[eng] Bequest and Inheritance from French Fiscal Data, . by Luc Arrondel, Anne Laferrère.. . In this paper, a sample of 3200 estate duty forms filed in 1987 is used for a basis in describing the behaviour of the French regarding bequests and devises. It showed an estimated overall transfer...

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We study the role played by the household’s location in the income distributions in determining its location in the wealth distribution. A...

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...

Following recent developments in the literature about portfolio choices (Flavin and Yamashita, 2002; Cocco, 2004; Yao and Zhang, 2005), this paper analyses the empirical link between stockholding and housing wealth. We use the French wealth survey (Enquête Patrimoine2004, Insee) that give us detailed...

L’objectif de notre travail est de quantifier le motif de précaution des épargnants français face à des risques portant sur leurs revenus futurs à partir des données de l’enquête Patrimoine 2004 de l’Insee.