The Tobin Tax : Coping with Financial Volatility.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.