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Financial-Transaction Tax- Small Is Beautiful

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  • Zsolt Darvas
  • Jakob von Weizsäcker

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Based on their contribution to the European Parliament Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, in this Policy Contribution Resident Fellows Zsolt Darvas and Jakob von Weizsäcker discuss the merits of the much-discussed financial-transaction tax. They argue that the case for taxing financial transactions for the sake of not raising revenue is relatively weak, but a financial-transaction tax could be useful in limiting socially-undesirable transactions. On this basis, they say, a very...

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  • Zsolt Darvas & Jakob von Weizsäcker, 2010. "Financial-Transaction Tax- Small Is Beautiful," Bruegel Policy Contributions 379, Bruegel.
    • Handle: RePEc:bre:polcon:379
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    Cited by:

    1. Neil McCulloch & Grazia Pacillo, 2010. "The Tobin Tax A Review of the Evidence," Working Paper Series 1611, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
    2. Tri Vi Dang & Xiaoxi Liu & Florian Morath, 2022. "Taxation, Information Acquisition, and Trade in Decentralized Markets: Theory and Test," Working Papers 2022-08, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
    3. Vinko Zlatić & Giampaolo Gabbi & Hrvoje Abraham, 2015. "Reduction of Systemic Risk by Means of Pigouvian Taxation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(7), pages 1-18, July.
    4. Patrick Thöni, 2020. "On the non-homogeneous effect of financial transaction taxes," Economics and Business Letters, Oviedo University Press, vol. 9(3), pages 230-239.
    5. Stephan Schulmeister, 2011. "Implementation of a General Financial Transactions Tax," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 41992, June.
    6. Edward Sun & Timm Kruse & Min-Teh Yu, 2015. "Financial Transaction Tax: Policy Analytics Based on Optimal Trading," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 46(1), pages 103-141, June.
    7. Stephan Meyer & Martin Wagener & Christof Weinhardt, 2015. "Politically Motivated Taxes in Financial Markets: The Case of the French Financial Transaction Tax," Journal of Financial Services Research, Springer;Western Finance Association, vol. 47(2), pages 177-202, April.
    8. Copenhagen Economics, 2011. "Elasticities of Financial Instruments, Profits and Remuneration," Taxation Papers 30, Directorate General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission.

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    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • F30 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - General

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