Effects of securities transaction taxes on depth and bid-ask spread

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This paper investigates the effects of transaction taxes on depth and bid-ask spread under asymmetric information. The paper uses a static model where a monopolistic market maker faces liquidity and informed traders. Introducing transaction taxes could, surprisingly, lead to increase in depth. Under some distributional assumptions, when market conditions are favorable to the dealer, the spread responds less than proportionally to an increase in the transaction tax while the depth actually increases. In contrast, when market conditions are unfavorable to the dealer, the spread widens more than proportionally and the depth decreases, potentially to zero, in response to an increase in the transaction tax. Our model sheds light on the disagreement in the empirical literature on the relative magnitude of transaction costs on trading volume.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series ; No. 132

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading ; Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
• Thema: asymmetric information ; securities transaction taxes ; liquidity ; Börsenumsatzsteuer ; Asymmetrische Information ; Bid-Ask Spread ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dupont, Dominique Y. ; Lee, Gabriel S.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
• (wo): Vienna
• (wann): 2003

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/71213