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Entry cost, the Tobin tax, and noise trading in the foreign exchange market

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  • Kang Shi
  • Juanyi Xu

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Two types of policy have been proposed to eliminate noise trading in the foreign exchange market: increasing the entry cost or imposing a ‘Tobin tax’ type of transaction tax. In this paper, we endogenize entry decisions of both informed traders and noise traders and show that these policies may be ineffective in reducing exchange rate volatility. This is because these policies will discourage the entry of all traders, so they may not change the relative ratio of traders, or they may affect informed traders disproportionately more, which increases the relative ratio of noise traders and exchange rate volatility. Deux types de politiques ont été proposées pour éliminer le bruit transactionnel qui empêche le prix d'être parfaitement révélateur dans le marché des changes : accroître le coût à l'entrée ou imposer une taxe à la Tobin sur les transactions. Dans ce texte, on endogénise les décisions à l'entrée à la fois des opérateurs informés et des autres qui n'ont pas d'information significative, et on montre que ces politiques sont ineffectives pour réduire la volatilité du taux de change. C'est que ces politiques découragent l'entrée de tous les opérateurs. En conséquence, elles peuvent ne pas changer le ratio des deux types d'opérateurs, ou peuvent même affecter les opérateurs informés davantage – ce qui accroît l'importance relative des moins informés et donc la volatilité du taux de change.

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  • Kang Shi & Juanyi Xu, 2009. "Entry cost, the Tobin tax, and noise trading in the foreign exchange market," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 42(4), pages 1501-1526, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:canjec:v:42:y:2009:i:4:p:1501-1526
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2009.01555.x
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