全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP12779 Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens? Macro Evidence and Implications for Global Inequality

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP12779
	DP12779 Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens? Macro Evidence and Implications for Global Inequality
	Gabriel Zucman; Annette Alstadsæter; Niels Johannesen
发表日期	2018-03-07
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	Drawing on newly published macroeconomic statistics, this paper estimates the amount of household wealth owned by each country in offshore tax havens. The equivalent of 10% of world GDP is held in tax havens globally, but this average masks a great deal of heterogeneity—from a few percent of GDP in Scandinavia, to about 15% in Continental Europe, and 60% in Gulf countries and some Latin American economies. We use these estimates to construct revised series of top wealth shares in ten countries, which account for close to half of world GDP. Because offshore wealth is very concentrated at the top, accounting for it increases the top 0.01% wealth share substantially in Europe, even in countries that do not use tax havens extensively. It has considerable effects in Russia, where the vast majority of wealth at the top is held offshore. These results highlight the importance of looking beyond tax and survey data to study wealth accumulation among the very rich in a globalized world.
主题	Public Economics
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp12779
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541588
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gabriel Zucman,Annette Alstadsæter,Niels Johannesen. DP12779 Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens? Macro Evidence and Implications for Global Inequality. 2018.