Bequests, estate taxes, and wealth distributions

DOI10.1007/S00199-017-1091-7MaRDI QIDQ2323586zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jing Wan, Shenghao Zhu

Publication date 3 September 2019

Published in Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-017-1091-7

zbMATH Keywords

bequest motivesestate taxesLorenz dominancewealth inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Welfare economics (91B15) General equilibrium theory (91B50) Macroeconomic theory (monetary models, models of taxation) (91B64)

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