Financial transaction taxes and the informational efficiency of financial markets: A structural estimation

Marco Cipriani, Antonio Guarino and Andreas Uthemann

Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, vol. 146, issue 3, 1044-1072

Abstract: We develop a new methodology to estimate the impact of a financial transaction tax (FTT) on financial market outcomes. In our sequential trading model, there are price-elastic noise and informed traders. We estimate the model through maximum likelihood for a sample of 60 NYSE stocks in 2017. We quantify the effect of introducing an FTT given the parameter estimates. An FTT increases the proportion of informed trading, improves information aggregation, but lowers trading volume and welfare. For some less liquid stocks, however, an FTT blocks private information aggregation.

Keywords: Financial transaction tax; Market microstructure; Structural estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 D82 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2022.04.007

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