This paper studies wealth taxation in a heterogeneous agent economy with entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs face borrowing … dataset on household wealth, I show that this possibility for entrepreneurs to sell their firm is crucial to simultaneously … account for both the stylized facts of the wealth distribution and year-to-year changes in wealth. In a subsequent policy …

and wealth differentials between black and white households. Specifically, we show that, although a more accommodative … time, an accommodative monetary policy shock exacerbates the wealth difference between black and white households, because …

Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro-area countries. First, we …

Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well‐being of households. Key determinants of private wealth … include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research … suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro‐area countries. First, we …

Wealth is very unequally distributed in Germany. To effect a long-term reduction, the new Federal Government could …. However, a universal capital endowment could decrease wealth inequality much more rapidly and successfully. In this report, a … recurrent wealth tax on the ultra wealthy, and taxing real estate properties more effectively. A universal capital endowment …