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Securities Transaction Taxes: Macroeconomic Implications in a General-Equilibrium Model

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  • Rafal Raciborski
  • Julia Lendvai
  • Lukas Vogel

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The paper studies the impact of a securities transaction tax (STT) on financial trading, stock prices and real economic variables in a closed-economy dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model featuring financial frictions. The model incorporates channels by which 'noise trading' affects real economic volatility. Firms' investment expenditure is related to the value of their outstanding shares. The model is calibrated to stylised facts of financial trading and firms' financing. The simulations suggest distortive effects of the STT on real variables similar to those of corporate income taxation. At the same time, the STT reduces economic volatility, but this stabilisation gain is quantitatively modest.

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  • Rafal Raciborski & Julia Lendvai & Lukas Vogel, 2012. "Securities Transaction Taxes: Macroeconomic Implications in a General-Equilibrium Model," European Economy - Economic Papers 2008 - 2015 450, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission.
    • Handle: RePEc:euf:ecopap:0450
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    1. Yiannis Kitromilides & Ana Rosa González, 2013. "The EU Financial Transactions Tax: Antecedents and Current Debate," Panoeconomicus, Savez ekonomista Vojvodine, Novi Sad, Serbia, vol. 60(3), pages 311-321, May.
    2. Carlos Contreras & Mónica Contreras, 2015. "Estimación de la recaudación del Impuesto sobre Transacciones Financieras: el caso español," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 213(2), pages 109-143, June.
    3. Omar Chisari & Antonio Estache & Gaetan Nicodeme, 2016. "Efficiency and Equity Effects of Taxing the Financial Sector: Lessons from a CGE Model for Belgium," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 72(2), pages 125-157, June.
    4. Bratis, Theodoros & Laopodis, Nikiforos T. & Kouretas, Georgios P., 2017. "Assessing the impact of an EU financial transactions tax on asset volatility: An event study," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 12-24.
    5. Veronika Solilová & Danuše Nerudová, 2015. "Financial Transaction Tax: Determination of Economic Impact Under DSGE Model," Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, Mendel University Press, vol. 63(2), pages 627-637.
    6. Atanas Pekanov & Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, 2019. "A Global Financial Transaction Tax. Theory, Practice and Potential Revenues," WIFO Working Papers 582, WIFO.

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    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory

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