The location of financial activities is traditionally characterized by a great deal of inertia. However, the 2007-10 crisis may considerably modify the geography of finance and cause an upheaval in world hierarchy. The crisis hit the Western countries directly and the main financial centers have...

[fre] Le concept de place financière renvoie traditionnellement à un ensemble géographiquement intégré. Mais le développement des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication a eu pour conséquence une désintégration verticale des activités financières. Ceci...

In this paper, we assess the impact of the securities transaction tax (STT) introduced in France in 2012 on market liquidity and volatility. To identify causality, we rely on the unique design of this tax that is imposed only on large French firms, all listed on Euronext. This provides two...