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Progressive Estate Taxation
Farhi, Emmanuel - 2009
For an economy with altruistic parents facing productivity shocks, the optimal estate taxation is progressive: fortunate parents should face lower net returns on their inheritances. This progressivity reflects optimal mean reversion in consumption, which ensures that a long-run steady state...
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Progressive Estate Taxation
Farhi, Emmanuel - 2007
For an economy with altruistic parents facing productivity shocks, the optimal estate taxation is progressive: fortunate parents should face lower net returns on their inheritances. This progressivity reflects optimal mean reversion in consumption, which ensures that a long-run steady state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778251
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Progressive Estate Taxation
Farhi, Emmanuel - 2006
For an economy with altruistic parents facing productivity shocks, the optimal estate taxation is progressive: fortunate parents should face lower net returns on their inheritances. This progressivity reflects optimal mean reversion in consumption, which ensures that a long-run steady state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466061
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Chapter 6. Taxation of Intergenerational Transfers and Wealth
Kopczuk, Wojciech - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 5, (pp. 329-390). 2013
In this chapter, I review empirical and theoretical literature on taxation of intergenerational transfers (estates, bequests, inheritances, inter vivos gifts) and wealth. The main message may be summarized as follows. Empirical evidence on bequest motivations and responses to estate taxation is...
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Inheritance taxation in a model with intergenerational time transfers
Belan, Pascal; Moussault, Erwan - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 20 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
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Intergenerational altruism and house prices : evidence from bequest tax reforms in Italy
Bellettini, Giorgio; Taddei, Filippo; Zanella, Giulio - 2014
We identify the degree of intergenerational altruism in an OLG framework à la Barro exploiting the quasi …-experimental variation generated by reforms of bequest taxation (estate or inheritance tax, in the U.S.) and taxes on inter vivos real estate … parameter of interest via the effect of changes in the tax rate on house prices. We find that the intergenerational altruism …
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Can inheritance taxation promote equality of opportunities?
Fize, Etienne; Grimprel, Nicolas; Landais, Camille - In: LSE public policy review 2 (2022) 4, pp. 1-14
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Optimal taxation of bequests in a model with initial wealth
Brunner, Johann K.; Pech, Susanne - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 4, pp. 1368-1392
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Why do people leave bequests? : for love or self-interest?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014
that there are large inter-country differences in the degree of selfishness and altruism, with the Japanese and Chinese … religiosity appear to be the main cause of inter-country differences in the degree of selfishness and altruism. …
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