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The Taxation of Bilateral Trade with Endogenous Information

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  • Tri Vi Dang
  • Florian Morath

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This paper analyzes the effects of taxation on trade in a decentralized market. We show that a tax on profits and a transaction tax have opposite implications for information acquisition and trade in the canonical take-it-and-leave-it offer bargaining model. A (marginal) increase of a transaction tax can lead to more information production and lower the probability of efficient trade. In contrast, a (marginal) increase of a profit tax can reduce the incentive to produce information and increase the probability of efficient trade. The taxation of profits can be efficiency enhancing when information is endogenous, while it has no effect when private information is exogenous.

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  • Tri Vi Dang & Florian Morath, 2013. "The Taxation of Bilateral Trade with Endogenous Information," Working Papers tax-mpg-rps-2013-07, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance.
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    Keywords

    Bargaining; information acquisition; taxation; financial transaction tax; funding markets;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General

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