Despite their impressive market success, investment certificates' benefits are puzzling from both a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint. Previous research analyzed portfoliotheoretical issues, mispricing patterns, and counterparty risk. This work highlights the impact of taxation, which has...

Despite their impressive market success, investment certificates' benefits are puzzling from both a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint. Previous research analyzed portfoliotheoretical issues, mispricing patterns, and counterparty risk. This work highlights the impact of taxation, which has...

This paper presents the possibility that the government may be able to collect resources, without hurting investors, by introducing or changing taxes and subsidies on gains from different classes of financial assets. Our positive analysis is based on heterogeneous investors and an arbitrary...

In the economic literature the fiscal burden on financial claims is usually measured by the expected tax rate. Auerbach has demonstrated that the use of this method can be seriously misleading. This paper develops a method for defining an effective tax rate adjusted for risk on uncertain...

La repatriacion de capitales privados constituye una fuente importante de financiamiento en aquellas economias latinoamericanas que actualmente estan implementando programas de estabilizacion. En el presente articulo el autor senala la importancia de algunos mecanismos para coordinar las...