We explore issues related to a financial transaction tax (FTT) in the United States. We trace the history and current … practice of the tax in the United States and other countries, review evidence of its impact on financial markets, and explore … the key design issues any such tax must address. We present new revenue and distributional effects of a hypothetical …

(probabilistically and collectively) the transaction that led to the present litigation. This tax drives a wedge between the expected …

international financial markets. In contrast, the transactions tax has got a stabilizing character when adjusting the portfolio to …In a simple portfolio choice model of two assets a foreign exchange transactions tax is implemented. We show that the … graph in the mu-sigma[square] range is still a parabola and delineate its characteristics for altering tax rates. We …

We investigate the effects of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) in an order-driven artificial financial market. FTTs …-series. We find largely positive effects of the FTT for small tax rates. Additionally, for large tax rates we find the effects …