Gifts, bequests and family incentives

Economics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 313-318

  Jellal, Mohamed ^a   Wolff, François Charles ^b  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Bequests; Family incentives; Gifts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847216564     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.05.024     Document Type: Article

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