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Les Français sont-ils prudents ? Patrimoine et risque sur les revenus des ménages

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Luc Arrondel
Hector Calvo Pardo

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Le motif d'épargne de précaution a été modélisé initialement par Leland (1968), Sandmo (1970) ou Drèze & Modigliani (1972) et renouvelé par Kimball (1993). La quantification de cette prudence des épargnants face à un risque de revenu exogène dans les comportements d'épargne a fait l'objet d'une abondante littérature empirique qui est cependant loin d'aboutir à un consensus. Pour résumer, d'un côté les méthodes de simulation calibrant les modèles théoriques sur l'économie réelle aboutissent à une part du patrimoine de précaution de l'ordre de 50% du total alors que de l'autre, les travaux économétriques estiment cette proportion entre 1% et 20%. L'objectif principal de ce travail était de quantifier le motif de précaution des épargnants français face à des risques portant sur leurs revenus futurs. Le travail empirique a été effectué à partir des données de l'enquête "Patrimoine 2004" de l'Insee. Les mesures de ces aléas étaient subjectives, directement anticipées par un membre du ménage pour les 5 années à venir. Elles concernaient d'une part la probabilité de perdre son emploi, d'autre part les évolutions possibles du revenu. Nous avons montré que le motif d'épargne de précaution reste limité chez les français. Bien qu'elle dépende de la nature de la richesse envisagée, de la mesure des risques de revenu futur et de la méthode d'estimation, la part du patrimoine de précaution dépasse en effet rarement 10% de la richesse, financière ou autre. ###[english_abstract: Precautionary saving was first modelled by Leland (1968), Sandmo (1970) and Drèze & Modigliani (1972), and then later by Kimball (1993). The measure of savers' prudence in reaction to an exogenous income risk has been the subject of a large empirical literature, which has yet to reach a consensus. One approach uses simulation methods to calibrate theoretical models on real data, and concludes that about half of all saving is precautionary, while econometric work on the same problem produces much lower figures for the share of precautionary saving of between 1% and 20%. The main goal of this paper is to quantify the extent of precautionary saving by French savers who face risks regarding their future income. The empirical analysis is based on data from the INSEE "Patrimoine 2004" survey. The measures of income risk are subjective, and reported directly by the respondent with respect to the next five years. These cover the risk of job loss and other potential income movements. We find only a modest degree of precautionary saving in this French sample. While the results depend to an extent on the type of wealth under consideration, the measure of the risks faced, and the estimation method, the share of precautionary saving only rarely exceeds 10%.]###

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