Wealthier households obtain higher returns on their investments than poorer ones. How should the tax system account for this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth. The leading example is a financial market, where the...

Wealthier households obtain higher returns on their investments than poorer ones. How should the tax system account for this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth. The leading example is a financial market, where the...

In this paper we analyze IPO underpricing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange between 2003 and 2011. The average initial return was positive (14.2%), which is similar to the findings on other equity markets. Medium and long-run abnormal returns (1-month, 3-months and 1-year) on average are negative and...

In the 21st century, already witness to unparalleled rates of globalization, discernible economic success can hardly be achieved without developed stock markets. In case of Georgia, the stock exchange remains in nascent stage of development and positions as one of the smallest and most illiquid...

The Georgian Stock Exchange (GeSE) is one of the smallest and most illiquid capital markets worldwide. Inefficient regulation and high transaction costs feature high in describing the embryonic stage of Georgia's stock market. This paper, by supplying first-hand empirical evidence on time-series...

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between the development of the financial market and per capita income. For this, panel data methods were used to analyze proxy variables of depth, risk and liquidity of the financial system for a heterogeneous sample of 95 countries from 1980 to...

Terrorist incidents exert a negative, albeit usually short-lived, impact on markets and equity returns. Given the integration of global financial markets, mega-terrorist events also have a high contagion potential with their shock waves being transmitted across countries and markets. This paper...

We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years ofpopulation data from Norway's administrative tax records. We document a number of novel results.First, during our sample period individuals earn markedly different average returns on their...

A single macroeconomic factor based on growth in the capital share of aggregate income exhibits significant explanatory power for expected returns across a range of equity characteristic portfolios and non-equity asset classes, with risk price estimates that are of the same sign and similar in...

We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years of population data from Norway's administrative tax records. We document a number of novel results. First, during our sample period individuals earn markedly different average returns on their...