Tax incidence for fragile financial markets
Felix Bierbrauer
Journal of Public Economics, 2014, vol. 120, issue C, 107-125
Abstract:
Standard tax incidence analysis deals with households and firms that buy and sell consumption goods, as opposed to financial institutions that buy and sell financial products. This paper develops a framework that allows us to study tax incidence on financial markets, and applies it to a financial transactions tax. A main result is that the tax may contribute to financial distress. Moreover, if the government has to bail out the debtors of failed financial institutions, the tax-induced increase in bailout costs may be larger than the increase in tax revenue, so that the government's overall fiscal position becomes worse.
Keywords: Tax incidence; Financial markets; Financial transactions tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G18 G21 G28 H22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.09.002
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