wider perspective on the role of firms. We study the role of close family members as firm owners across the income …

stake can reduce investment in family firms, by reducing the future income they can pledge to external financiers. Using a …-2006 interval, we find that stricter inheritance law is associated with lower investment in family firms, while it leaves investment … unaffected in non-family firms. Moreover, as predicted by the model, inheritance law affects investment only in family firms that …