Baca-Campodónico, Jorge; Mello, Luiz de; Kirilenko, Andrei - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
This paper provides cross-country empirical evidence on the productivity of bank transaction taxes (BTTs). Our data set comprises six Latin American countries that have levied BTTs since the late 1980s: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. We find that, for a given tax rate,...
