Progressive estate taxation

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 635-673

  Farhi, Emmanuel ^a,b   Werning, Iván ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 77951956125     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2010.125.2.635     Document Type: Article

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