Securities Transaction Taxes and Financial Markets /

This paper argues that securities transaction taxes "throw sand" not in the wheels, but into the engine of financial markets where the transformation of latent demands into realized transactions takes place. The paper considers the impact of transaction taxes on financial markets in the co...

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Autor principal: Habermeier, Karl
Altres autors: Kirilenko, Andrei
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/051
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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