Recent books by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2014) and Anthony Atkinson (Atkinson, 2015) have brought the annual wealth tax … back on the policy agenda. Both authors suggest using the annual wealth tax to supplement the redistributional effects of …, the wealth tax is often not delivering the expected effects – a large share of the tax burden falls on people with low …

This paper examines the role of bequests and of taxation on bequests for the distribution of wealth. We investigate a …. Using the coefficient of variation as the measure of inequality, bequests per se diminish the inequality of wealth since … they raise private savings and hence average wealth holdings more than the variance of wealth. From a policy perspective …

discussion on the (re-)introduction of wealth taxes. Wealth taxes are typically levied on private wealth, in some countries also … on corporate wealth. To avoid misleading statements concerning possible distributional consequences of wealth taxes …-induced changes in investment timing may significantly affect the income and wealth distribution. We analyze the impact of wealth …

We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years of population … of wealth between safe and risky assets: returns are heterogeneous even within asset classes. Third, returns are … positively correlated with wealth: moving from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the financial wealth distribution increases the …

, 19th century weight was higher in states with greater average wealth and population density and lower in states with … greater wealth inequality …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …

wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average … reductions in the net holdings of financial and other real wealth of the treated households …

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … job loss and those who do not reveals generally increasing entry rates through the wealth distribution for both groups … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …