I challenged Claire Melamed of ActionAid to stop reassuring me about the months of research that had gone into researching the Robin Hood tax, and just tell us all where to find the research. Fair play to Claire, the bibliography is now up. It’s one-sided (but the campaign is not pretending otherwise), belated, and a bit “referency” – i.e. there are links but no explanation of what they actually say. But still, I am very pleased to see the links go up. Here they are:
Baker, D., et al., 2009. The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes. Center for Economic and Policy Research: Washington D.C., USA.
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ftt-revenue-2009-12.pdf
Bernd Spahn, P., 2002. On the Feasibility of a Tax on Foreign Exchange Transactions. Report commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development: Bonn
http://www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/profs/spahn/tobintax/Chapter0.pdf
BIS, 2007. Triennial central bank survey of foreign exchange and derivatives market activity in April 2007. Statistical report, Bank for International Settlements: Basle.
http://www.bis.org/publ/rpfxf07t.htmDietz, M., et al., 2008. What’s in store for global banking. McKinsey Quarterly: January 2008
https://solutions.mckinsey.com/globalbankingpools/cms/_SiteNote/WWW/GetFile.aspx?uri=:/globalbankingpools/cms/gpp-content/en-us/article/Files/MainBloc/ProfitPoolsFinal_08fe84d7-d06a-4630-ad50-f737945ec1dc.pdfEhrenstein, G., F. Westerhoff, et al. (2005). “Tobin tax and market depth.” Quantitative Finance 5: 213–218
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a724004927&db=allGrunberg, Isabelle, Inge Kaul and Mahbub ul Haq, (1996) The Tobin Tax: Coping with Financial Volatility. New York: Oxford University Press
Murphy, R., 2010. Taxing Banks. A joint submission to the International Monetary Fund: London, UK
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Documents/IMFTaxingBanks.pdf
Pollin, R., D. Baker & M. Schaberg, 2003. Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets. Eastern Economic Journal 29/4: pp.527-58.
http://college.holycross.edu/eej/Volume29/V29N4P527_558.pdfSchmidt, R., 2008. The Currency Transaction Tax: Rate and Revenue Estimates. United Nations University Press: Tokyo, New York, London.
http://www.stampoutpoverty.org/?lid=10738Schulmeister, S., et al., 2008. A General Financial Transaction Tax: Motives, Revenues, Feasibility and Effects. Austrian Institute of Economic Research: Austria.
http://www.wifo.ac.at/wwa/servlet/wwa.upload.DownloadServlet/bdoc/S_2008_FINANCIAL_TRANSACTION_TAX_31819$.PDFSpratt, S., 2006. A Euro Solution: Implementing a stamp duty on Euro to finance international development. Stamp Out Poverty: London, UK
http://www.stampoutpoverty.org/?lid=10558Spratt, S., 2006. A Sterling Solution: Implementing a stamp duty on Sterling to finance international development. Stamp Out Poverty: London, UK
http://www.stampoutpoverty.org/?lid=9889Stiglitz, J., 1989. Using tax policy to curb speculative short-term trading, Journal of Financial Services Research: Vol. 3, pp.101-15
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n2804801534g5022/Suescún, R., 2004. Raising Revenue with Transaction Taxes in Latin America – or is it better to tax the devil you know? World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3279
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=610324Summer, L.H. and Summers, V.P., 1989. When financial markets work too well: A cautious case for a securities transactions tax. J. Financial Serv. Res.: Vol3, pp. 261-286
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p016371m624r6742/
Tobin, James, 1978, A Proposal for International Monetary Reform, Yale University, Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, No.506
http://ideas.repec.org/p/cwl/cwldpp/506.htmlZee, Howell, (2000) “Retarding Short-Term Capital Inflows Through Withholding Tax,” IMF Working Paper, no. 00/40,
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2000/wp0040.pdf
The original bibliography is available here. I understand there are some RHT sceptics out there and would be happy to publish a competing bibliography here too.
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