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of corruption in the society all farms of corruptions has to be internalized by introducing a permit and tax for …
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banks, a financial transactions tax contributes to financial distress and undoes other policy measures that are used to …This paper studies the impact of a financial transactions tax on a financial market where financial institutions trade …. There are two main results: First, if all banks have enough liquidity so that they can honor their short-term obligations, a …
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Whether proprietary traders provide or take liquidity, and how their behavior evolves over the business cycle and across stocks, remains at the center of an ongoing debate. Using a unique dataset from the NYSE, we document that proprietary traders concentrate their trades in large and liquid...
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banks, a financial transactions tax contributes to financial distress and undoes other policy measures that are used to …This paper studies the impact of a financial transactions tax on a financial market where financial institutions trade …. There are two main results: First, if all banks have enough liquidity so that they can honor their short-term obligations, a …
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-fixed exchange rates thanks to capital controls, James Tobin conceived his now famous “Tobin tax”. Since then, some supporters of his …) in particular has proposed a two-tier Currency Transaction Tax (hereafter CTT). The CTT could curb the usual speculation …
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In light of the recently passed 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, we assess the effect of margin changes on prices, the risk-sharing between speculators and hedgers, and the price stability of 20 commodity futures markets. We find that margin increases decrease the rate at which prices change, yet they...
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. Systemic relevance should be internalized with a levy (or "tax"), the level of which (or "tax rate") rises with the systemic …
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find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …
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We develop a model of the joint capital structure decisions of banks and their borrowers. Strikingly high bank leverage … that highly levered financial intermediaries can offer the lowest interest rates. Low asset volatility enables banks to … borrowers, which can paradoxically lead to riskier banks. Doubling current capital requirements would reduce the default risk of …
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of this paper is that when the efficient pricing hypothesis is imposed in the form of an average cost pricing rule, banks … will maximally differentiate their product. However, high quality-type banks benefit from increased market power, while low … quality-type banks could benefit from either increased market share, or increased market power …
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