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Financial Transactions Taxes
Stotsky, Janet Gale - 1995
Financial transactions taxes have recently gained attention as a possible means to influence the behavior of financial markets and to reduce destabilizing capital flows. One variation is a tax on all foreign currency conversions, often termed a “Tobin tax.” This paper suggests that these...
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Macroprudential Regulation Under Repo Funding
Valderrama, Laura - 2010
The use of collateral has become one of the most widespread risk mitigation techniques. While it brings stabilizing effects to the individual lender we argue that it may exacerbate systemic risk through margin call activation. We show how a liquidity shock to the cash lender may propagate as a...
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Taxing financial transactions : issues and evidence
Matheson, Thornton - 2011
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Taxing Financial Transactions : Issues and Evidence
Matheson, Thornton - 2011
In reaction to the recent financial crisis, increased attention has recently been given to financial transaction taxes (FTTs) as a means of (1) raising revenue for a variety of possible purposes and/or (2) helping to curb financial market excesses. This paper reviews existing theory and evidence...
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Systemic Risk from Global Financial Derivatives : A Network Analysis of Contagion and Its Mitigation with Super-Spreader Tax
Markose, Sheri M. - 2012
Financial network analysis is used to provide firm level bottom-up holistic visualizations of interconnections of financial obligations in global OTC derivatives markets. This helps to identify Systemically Important Financial Intermediaries (SIFIs), analyse the nature of contagion propagation,...
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Financial Regulation and the Current Account
Wieladek, Tomasz - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between financial regulation and the current account in an intertemporal model of … the current account where financial regulation affects the current account through liquidity constraints. Greater … tested with an interacted panel VAR model where the coefficients are allowed to vary with the degree of financial regulation …
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Bank behavior in response to Basel III : a cross-country analysis
Cosimano, Thomas F.; Hakura, Dalia S. - 2011
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Does going tough on banks make the going get tough? : bank liquidity regulations, capital requirements, and sectoral activity
Igan, Deniz; Mirzaei, Ali - 2020
Whether and to what extent tougher bank regulation weighs on economic growth is an open empirical question. Using data …
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Conceptual issues in calibrating the Basel III countercyclical capital buffer
Wezel, Torsten - 2019
This paper discusses issues in calibrating the countercyclical capital buffer (CCB) based on a sample of EU countries. It argues that the main indicator for buffer decisions under the Basel III framework, the credit-to-GDP gap, does not always work best in terms of covering bank loan losses that...
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Securities Transaction Taxes and Financial Markets
Habermeier, Karl Friedrich - 2001
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...
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