The Capital Tax and Welfare Effects from Asymmetric Information on Equity Markets

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 219-233

  Westerhout, Ed W M T ^a,b  

^a CPB NETHERLANDS BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Capital taxation; Equity home bias; Marginal cost of taxation; Theory of second best

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348246657     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016263125158     Document Type: Article

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