well as at all levels of net wealth at a point in time. Gifts and inheritances are only an important source of income flows … extreme wealth inequality in society. …

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 …

Taxation of capital income and wealth redistributes from the rich but may harm the Norwegian economy as business … wealth. A wealth tax without a discount for working capital combined with a tax rate on ordinary income equal to the …

countries want to control their own resources, a goal which can come into conflict with the desire of the international …

utility to differ between households with and without offspring. Our estimates imply a very strong utility of residual wealth …-quarters of aggregate wealth at age 85. More surprisingly, we estimate similar utility of residual wealth for households with and … without offspring. We interpret this as, prima facie, evidence that the utility of residual wealth represents forces beyond an …