A two factor general equilibrium model with perfect international capital mobility, endogenous supply of capital and labour, and heterogeneous individuals, is used to analyze the relation between taxes and capital income and labour income, and the efficiency of free capital mobility.

We consider a sovereign wealth fund that invests broadly in the international financial markets. The influx to the fund has stopped. We adopt the life cycle model and demonstrate that the optimal spending rate from the fund is significantly less than the fund's expected real rate of return. The...

This paper studies the impact of a capital-income tax and a wealth tax on investor behavior in an efficient capital market under various assumptions regarding uncertainty and time horizons. We show that investors who face capital taxes have a lower discount rate, but that their willingness to...

We consider a sovereign wealth fund that invests broadly in the international financial markets. The influx to the fund has stopped. We adopt the life cycle model and demonstrate that the optimal spending rate from the fund is significantly less than the fund’s expected real rate of return....

Closet indexers are low-activity mutual funds sold and marketed as active. Their investors are thus only partially receiving the service they pay for. Therefore, regulation is considered by supervisory authorities worldwide. We examine the impact of policy scrutiny by comparing scrutinized...