The Tobin tax : coping with financial volatility / edited by Mahbub ul Haq, Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haq, Mahbub ul, 1934-1998, editor.

Kaul, Inge, editor.

Grunberg, Isabelle, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign exchange futures--Taxation.

Foreign exchange futures.

Tobin, James, 1918-2002.

Local Subjects:

Tobin, James, 1918-2002.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This guide to coping with financial volatility should be of interest to academics and economists with interest in finance and international development.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Overview; The Tobin Tax as an Instrument of Global Monetary Policy; 1. Taxing International Financial Transactions to Enhance the Operation of the International Monetary System; 2. How Well Do Markets Work: Might a Tobin Tax Help?; 3. The Tobin Tax: Good Theory, Weak Evidence, Questionable Policy; Technical Feasibility and Implementation; 4. The Feasibility of Taxing Foreign Exchange Transactions; 5. Issues of Enforcement and Evasion in a Tax on Foreign Exchange Transactions; 6. Institutional Arrangements for a Tax on International Currency Transactions

Lessons from Individual Country Experiences 7. Managing Capital Inflows in Latin America; 8. The Republic of Korea's Experience with Managing Foreign Capital Flows; Revenue Raised by the Tobin Tax; 9. On the Revenue Potential and Phasing in of the Tobin Tax; 10. Potential Uses of the Revenue from a Tobin Tax; Conclusion: The Tobin Tax: What Have We Learned?; Statistical Appendix; About the Contributors; Further Reading on the Tobin Tax; Index;

Notes:

Bibliography: p307-308. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771063-8

1-280-45356-7

0-19-534439-1

1-60256-646-1

OCLC:

252565389