TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yoder,Sean
AU  - Honohan,Patrick
AU  - Yoder,Sean
TI  - Financial Transactions Tax: Panacea, Threat, Or Damp Squib ? 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Banking assets
KW  - Banks & Banking Reform
KW  - Currency
KW  - Debt Markets
KW  - Derivative
KW  - Derivative transactions
KW  - Economic efficiency
KW  - Economic Theory & Research
KW  - Emerging Markets
KW  - Equities
KW  - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW  - Financial assets
KW  - Financial system
KW  - Fiscal deficits
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Gross domestic product
KW  - International bank
KW  - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
KW  - Market failures
KW  - Private Sector Development
KW  - Reserve
KW  - Reserve requirements
KW  - Securities
KW  - Securities transactions
KW  - Tax
KW  - Taxation & Subsidies
KW  - Transaction
KW  - Transparency
N2  - Attempts to raise a significant percentage of gross domestic product in revenue from a broad-based financial transactions tax are likely to fail both by raising much less revenue than expected and by generating far-reaching changes in economic behavior. Although the side-effects would include a sizable restructuring of financial sector activity, this would not occur in ways corrective of the particular forms of financial overtrading that were most conspicuous in contributing to the crisis
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5230
ER  -