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Risk Taking and Taxation in Complete Capital Markets

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  • Kai A. Konrad

    (Department of Economics, University of Munich, Ludwigstrasse 33, D-8000 Munich 22, Germany)

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In general equilibrium, with complete conventional securities markets and endogenous asset supply, taxes on risk remuneration are ineffective but harmless. They do not alter the real allocation of goods or the distribution of wealth, they impose no excess burden, and, in particular, have no impact on risk taking. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory (1991) 16, 167–177. doi:10.1007/BF02386305

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  • Kai A. Konrad, 1991. "Risk Taking and Taxation in Complete Capital Markets," The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (The Geneva Association), vol. 16(2), pages 167-177, December.
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