The inheritance tax is often seen as an effective tool to reduce wealth inequality, to raise public budgets if needed … the OECD. The purpose of this paper is therefore to shed light on the question whether the inheritance tax is a promising … tool for fighting wealth inequality without having distorting effects for the economy. For this purpose, the distributional …

We study the effects on inequality of a “Piketty transition” to zero growth. In a model with a worker …-capitalist dichotomy, we show first that the relationship between inequality (measured as a ratio of incomes for the two types) and growth … is complicated; zero growth can raise or lower inequality, depending on parameters. Extending our model to include …

We incorporate the division of income between capital and labor into analysis on the relationship between inequality …

. Evaluated on the basis of both their cost for the public finances and their impact on inequality, the strengthening of the …

through a battery of robustness checks. Our findings brings forth land-holding inequality as the key mediating factor for …