In a case study of Taiwan's tea industry during the Japanese colonial period, we identify an important function of middlemen: sorting. The transaction cost saved by the intermediary due to sorting is shown to be empirically significant. We also study other services provided by tea middlemen,...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between income inequality and bequest division rules, an old but untouched topic addressed by Sir Josiah Stamp nearly seventy years ago. We show that the bequest income transition rule for each child should be linearly combined to form...