ARRONDEL, Luc; LAFERRÈRE, Anne - In: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique (1998) 51, pp. 187-208
Wealth is highly concentrated among a few very rich individuals. The usual models of wealth transmission offer life-cycle and family motives for bequests. The hypothesis here is that those motives are not likely to be active for very rich individuals. Using a sample of french estate records...