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100 1 _aRydqvist, Kristian.
_919937
245 1 0 _aGovernment Policy and Ownership of Financial Assets /
_cKristian Rydqvist, Joshua Spizman, Ilya A. Strebulaev.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w17522
500 _aOctober 2011.
520 3 _aSince World War II, direct stock ownership by households across the globe has largely been replaced by indirect stock ownership by financial institutions. We argue that tax policy is the driving force. Using long time-series from eight countries, we show that the fraction of household ownership decreases with measures of the tax benefits of holding stocks inside tax-deferred plans. This finding is important for policy considerations on effective taxation and for financial economics research on the long-term effects of taxation on corporate finance and asset prices.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aG10 - General
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aG20 - General
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aH22 - Incidence
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aH30 - General
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700 1 _aSpizman, Joshua.
700 1 _aStrebulaev, Ilya A.
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w17522.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w17522
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17522
942 _2ddc
_cW-PAPER
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_d289162