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...

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...

This paper studies wealth taxation in a heterogeneous agent economy with entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs face borrowing constraints and stochastically receive the opportunity to sell their firm to outside investors. With the help of a novel panel dataset on household wealth, I show that this...