Bequests, estate taxes, and wealth distributions

DOI10.1007/s00199-017-1091-7zbMath1422.91542OpenAlexW2769069033MaRDI QIDQ2323586

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

Lorenz dominancewealth inequalitybequest motivesestate taxes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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