Search Results - subject:"Wealth"

The carbon content of billionaire wealth : composition, concentration, and taxation

Bua, Krystian; Coronese, Matteo; Lamperti, Francesco; … - 2026

the wealth composition of the top 501 billionaires and construct a dataset linking each of their assets to emissions … extreme concentration of wealth among the super-rich and, even more so, emissions. About 50 billionaires account for around … both extreme wealth and emissions, we show that the introduction of a new progressive carbon wealth tax can potentially …

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Wealth taxation, capital gains taxation and the inequality-mobility trade-off

Langenhove, Christophe van; Lorenz, Jan; Schulz-Gebhard, Jan - 2026

We compare wealth taxes and capital gains taxes in a random growth model with idiosyncratic investment risk. At equal … tax revenue, wealth taxes generate higher wealth inequality but also higher wealth mobility than capital gains taxes. The … mechanism operates through variance: wealth taxes shift the mean of post-tax wealth growth without affecting variance, while …

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Intragenerational mobility in wealth in Germany, Norway, and Britain : descriptive evidence

Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Lersch, Philipp M.; Wiborg, … - 2026

We study intragenerational wealth rank mobility, investigating three dimensions: (i) wealth mobility over the life … cycle, (ii) heterogeneity in mobility among subgroups and wealth components, and (iii) commonalities and differences across … changes, and rank mobility curves. We find substantial mobility in wealth, which is often of short range. Mobility increases …

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Real estate wealth is not a monolith : non-primary real estate and its role in wealth concentration

Valetto, Pietro; Filauro, Stefano; Marx, Ive; Gornick, … - 2026

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Net wealth tax for Ireland : possibilities and pitfalls

McDonnell, Tom; Nugent, Ciarán; McCaughey, Sorley - 2026

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The size and distribution of augmented wealth : a look at Austria and beyond

Knell, Markus; Koman, Reinhard - 2026

This paper contributes to the literature on augmented wealth (the sum of public pension entitlements and net wealth …) along three dimensions. First, it provides new country-specific estimates of augmented wealth for Austria in the year 2017 … augmented wealth for Austria with comparable estimates for other countries. The household averages of the present value of …

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