investment expensing brings about sizeable output gains and a nontrivial increase in after-tax income inequality. However, it …

inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … overestimate their position reduce their aversion to inequality after learning their position, while those who underestimate their …

degree of heterogeneity in household preferences or beliefs is sufficient to match empirical measures of wealth inequality in …

Abstract This paper investigates the sources of inequality in household gross and net wealth across eight euro … a remarkable effect on wealth inequality that is stronger than the one of income differences. In Austria, Germany and … Cyprus the contribution of real and financial assets inherited or received as gifts to gross and net wealth inequality …

Approach to Decomposition This paper analyses how microeconomic factors drive inequality in household wealth across nine … have a considerable effect on wealth inequality that is on average stronger than that of income differences and other … or inter vivos transfers attains more than 30% to explained wealth inequality. The distribution of household …

The inheritance tax is often seen as an effective tool to reduce wealth inequality, to raise public budgets if needed … tool for fighting wealth inequality without having distorting effects for the economy. For this purpose, the distributional …