Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/323013 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
U.S.E. Working Papers Series No. 19-25
Publisher: 
Utrecht University, Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.), Utrecht
Abstract: 
What can account for the allocation of household wealth? In this article I analyse the evolution of the French and Dutch household portfolio between 1963 and today. I employ a Financial Almost Ideal Demand System after Blake (2004) to estimate wealth and interest rate elasticities for five wealth classes: M1, Savings, Equity, Life-insurance and pension assets and housing. The main contribution of the paper is that I highlight the importance of the institutional environment for the allocation of household wealth. The liberalization wave of French finance in the 1980s is reflected in the estimated elasticities, which increase in size for those assets that became more widely available. Institutional change in the Netherlands was much more limited, which is reflected in the relative stability of the estimated interest and wealth coefficients.
Subjects: 
household wealth
portfolio choice
model
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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