light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …

well as at all levels of net wealth at a point in time. Gifts and inheritances are only an important source of income flows … Inflows available to an individual (defined as the capitalized sum of net labor income, government transfers, and gifts and … much different from the actual distribution. Our findings suggest that inheritance taxes may do little to mitigate the …

from the "Survey of Italian Households' Income and Wealth," a panel survey of households conducted every two years by the …In this paper, we analyze the wealth accumulation and saving behavior of the retired elderly in Italy using micro data … Bank of Italy. We find that, on average, the retired elderly in Italy are decumulating their wealth (dissaving) but that …

Inheritance and gift taxation vary widely among countries in both the design and tax burden. We analyze the impact of a … standing of the state, and the country's size, on inheritance tax systems. The applied methods involve the random effects … inheritance tax design is mainly determined by demographic factors while tax revenues depend on a broader group of factors …