Financial Taxation (Beck and Muller)

Financial sector taxation: balancing fairness, efficiency, and stability, by Thorsten Beck and Thomas Losse-Müller, published by VoxEU. The global crisis has exposed the frailty of financial sectors the world over and highlighted the need for regulatory reform. A better alternative would be to transform the system of deposit insurance and its pricing structure. Such a solution could be a first step to link banks´ contributions to the deposit insure system with the risks and the size of financial institutions. see: http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/5121