Title: Progressive estate taxation
Description: 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. Keywords: progressivity, inheritance, estate taxation. JEL Classifications: E6.
Subjects: Econometric models, Inheritance and transfer tax