IMF Working Papers

Securities Transaction Taxes and Financial Markets

By Karl F Habermeier, Andrei A Kirilenko

May 1, 2001

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Karl F Habermeier, and Andrei A Kirilenko. Securities Transaction Taxes and Financial Markets, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2001) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper argues that securities transaction taxes "throw sand" not in the wheels, but into the engine of financial markets where the transformation of latent demands into realized transactions takes place. The paper considers the impact of transaction taxes on financial markets in the context of four questions. How important is trading? What causes price volatility? How are prices formed? How valuable is the volume of transactions? The paper concludes that transaction taxes or such equivalents as capital controls can have negative effects on price discovery, volatility, and liquidity and lead to a reduction in the informational efficiency of markets.

Subject: Asset prices, Balance of payments, Capital controls, Financial institutions, Options, Prices, Stocks, Taxes, Transaction tax

Keywords: Asset prices, Capital controls, Derivative transaction, Equity trading, Informational efficiency, Market liquidity, Market microstructure study, Market participant, North America, Options, Price discovery, Round-trip transaction, Securities transaction tax, Securities transaction taxes, Stocks, Transaction price volatility, Transaction tax, Transaction volume, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2001/051

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0512001

  • ISBN:

    9781451847116

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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