Taxation, bank leverage, and financial crises:
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Main Author: Mooij, Ruud A. de 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] International Monetary Fund © 2013
Series:IMF working paper WP/13/48
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Feb. 25, 2013). - "Fiscal Affairs Department"--Page 2 of pdf. - "February 2013"--Page 2 of pdf
"That most corporate tax systems favor debt over equity finance is now widely recognized as, potentially, amplifying risks to financial stability. This paper makes a first attempt to explore, empirically, the link between this tax bias and the probability of financial crisis. It finds that greater tax bias is associated with significantly higher aggregate bank leverage, and that this in turn is associated with a significantly greater chance of crisis. The implication is that tax bias makes crises much more likely, and, conversely, that the welfare gains from policies to alleviate it can be substantial - far greater than previous studies, which have ignored financial stability considerations, suggest"--Abstract
Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-25)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (26 pages)
ISBN:9781475521849
1475521847

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