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Taxing Speculative Trades as a Prudential Policy

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  • Junghum Park

    (Bank of Lithuania)

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Motivated by the policy debate on financial transaction taxes, this paper analyzes a model of primary financial markets with financially constrained entrepreneurs and investors subject to assetholding costs or risk aversion, as well as its extension with secondary-market trades which arise from a shock to some of these investors. The analysis of the basic model indicates underproduction in the real sector and overissuance of underpriced assets, calling for policy intervention. Next, the extended model is analyzed to characterize the optimal policy mix to correct these inefficiencies, which consistently involves subsidizing primary-market asset purchases and taxing secondarymarket transactions. The latter can be viewed as a Tobin-tax-like policy instrument to reduce price fluctuations across states and its rate is higher for riskier and more profitable asset issuers.

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  • Junghum Park, 2025. "Taxing Speculative Trades as a Prudential Policy," Bank of Lithuania Working Paper Series 138, Bank of Lithuania.
    • Handle: RePEc:lie:wpaper:138
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    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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