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Household preferences and demand for stocks in the Crisis: France 2004-2014
[Préférences des ménages et demande d’actions dans la crise : France 2004-2014]

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  • Luc Arrondel

    (PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Jérôme Coffinet

    (Banque de France - Banque de France)

Abstract

In this paper, we assess how the factors explaining stockholdings have evolved through the financial crisis. We rely on the data collected in surveys conducted among French households during the period 2004-2014. There are three main modes for investing in stocks: buying shares directly; purchasing them through mutual funds; and finally taking out unit-linked life insurance. Obviously, these three ways to invest in stocks do not involve the same investment behaviours since, besides the risk and return characteristics, they differ in their transaction costs, management fees and taxation. As a result, there is no a priori reason to consider that portfolio choice decisions by households on these modes of stockownership are equivalent and correspond to the same individuals' characteristics. We show that the holding of risky assets and of individual direct shares decreased during the period, and especially between 2009 and 2014. The estimation of a simultaneous model shows the specific characteristics of stockholders depending on the chosen support (direct, indirect or on life insurance): those who invest directly in stocks are richer, more educated and less risk averse; those who hold mutual funds are a little richer but more risk averse and do not appear the most educated; finally, for ownership in stocks on life insurance contracts, the position in the life cycle plays an important role as well as the social category.

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  • Luc Arrondel & Jérôme Coffinet, 2019. "Household preferences and demand for stocks in the Crisis: France 2004-2014 [Préférences des ménages et demande d’actions dans la crise : France 2004-2014]," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) halshs-02489618, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:pseptp:halshs-02489618
    DOI: 10.3917/redp.293.0391
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    1. Luc Arrondel & Jérôme Coffinet, 2021. "Preparing for the tax reform: the risky French households' portfolio in 2018," PSE Working Papers halshs-03322577, HAL.

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    Keywords

    Portfolio choice; Stockholding; Stock participation puzzle; Household finance; Choix du portefeuille; Détention d’actions; Paradoxe de la participation au marché des actions; Finances des ménages;
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    • C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions

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