Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014
Inherited wealth has attracted much attention recently, much due to the research by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2011; 2014 … historical inheritance flows are only really available for France and to some extent for the U.K. We study the long-run evolution … of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and …