The French Households’ Portfolio Through the Financial Almost Ideal Demand System
The composition of the financial wealth of French households has dramatically changed over the last decades.Currency plus overnight deposits and short-term saving deposits accounted for 58% of the total financial wealth in 1978 versus around 30% in 2016.Life insurance contracts accounted for 44% of French households ' portfolio in 2016 versus 4% in 1978.We seek explanatory factors for these changes by applying the Deaton and Muellbauer model to French households' portfolio choices.Wealth and real returns are the key determinants of the long run dynamics of the different asset shares in the portfolio.We use the model to simulate the effect of the replacement in 2018 of the various tax regimes of most financial products with a flat tax on savings income.We find that the flat tax should support investment in equities at the expense of life insurance contracts. LE PORTEFEUILLE FINANCIER DES MNAGES FRANAIS L'AUNE DU SYSTME QUASI IDAL DE DEMANDE La composition du patrimoine financier des mnages franais a radicalement chang au cours des dernires dcennies. Ainsi, les espces, les dpts vue et les dpts d'pargne court terme reprsentaient environ 30 % du patrimoine financier total en 2016 contre 58 % en 1978 et les contrats d'assurance-vie 44 % en2016 contre 4 % en 1978.Le modle de Deaton et Muellbauer permet de montrer que la richesse et les rendements rels sont les principaux dterminants de la dynamique long terme des parts d'actifs dans ce portefeuille. l'aide de ce modle, nous simulons l'effet du remplacement en 2018 des diffrents rgimes fiscaux de la plupart des produits financiers par un prlvement forfaitaire.Ce dernier soutiendrait l'investissement en actions au dtriment des contrats d'assurance-vie.
Authors
- Sanvi Avouyi‐Dovi
- Christian Pfister (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-4468)
- Franck Sédillot
Publication Details
- Journal
- Revue économique
- Published
- 2024-11-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3917/reco.754.0763
- Primary Topic
- Economic theories and models
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00