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Short-term and long-term government debt and non resident interest witholding taxes

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  • Eijffinger, S.C.W.

    (Tilburg University)

  • Huizinga, H.P.

    (Tilburg University)

  • Lemmen, J.J.G.

    (Tilburg University)

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This paper examines the incidence of nonresident interest withholding taxes in the international 3-month Treasury-bill market and the international 5-year government bond market.The approach is one of pooled cross-section, time-series regressions.We find that, in general, U.S. dollar yields on national Treasury-bills and pre-tax 5-year government bond yields fully reflect nonresident interest withholding taxes imposed on American or Japanese investors.Nonresident interest withholding taxes on short-term and long-term government debt thus do not appear to be borne by the international investor.

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Paper provided by Tilburg University in its series Open Access publications from Tilburg University with number urn:nbn:nl:ui:12-76575.

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Date of creation: 1998
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Publication status: Published in Journal of Public Economics (1998) v.68, p.309-334
Handle: RePEc:ner:tilbur:urn:nbn:nl:ui:12-76575

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  1. Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Huizinga, Harry, 1998. "Determinants of commercial bank interest margins and profitability : some international evidence," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1900, The World Bank.
  2. Uhlig, H.F.H.V.S., 1997. "Long Term Debt and the Political Support for a Monetary Union," Discussion Paper 1997-13, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
  3. Landon, Stuart, 2009. "The capitalization of taxes in bond prices: Evidence from the market for Government of Canada bonds," MPRA Paper 15467, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  4. Landon, Stuart & Smith, Constance, 2008. "Taxation and bond market investment strategies: Evidence from the market for Government of Canada bonds," MPRA Paper 9959, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  5. Huizinga, Harry & Nicodeme, Gaetan, 2004. "Are international deposits tax-driven," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(6), pages 1093-1118, June.

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