The global financial crisis has prompted economists to rethink fundamental questions on how governments should intervene in the financial sector. Many countries have already begun to reform the taxation and regulation of the financial sector—in the United States, for example, the Dodd–Frank...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- 1 Taxation and Regulation of the Financial Sector -- Part I: Interplay of Taxation and Regulation Policies for the Financial Sector -- 2 New Bank Taxes: Why and What Will Be the Effects? -- 3 Taxes, Banks, and Financial Stability -- 4 Taxation and...

Banks play a central role in the functioning of the economy. Not only do they allocate financial resources, they also collectively create money in the process of granting loans. In this way, they have a considerable impact on the type of activities that are financed in society. During the...

Deteriorating public finances around the world raise doubts about countries' abilities to bail out their largest banks. For an international sample of banks, this paper investigates the impact of government indebtedness and deficits on bank stock prices and credit default swap spreads. Overall,...