Progressive Estate Taxation. Farhi, E. & Werning, I. Technical Report 06-27, MIT Department of Economics, October, 2006. Link abstract bibtex 5 downloads 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 exists with bounded inequality– avoiding immiseration.
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