Optimal Asset Taxes in Financial Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty

Florian Scheuer

NBER Working Paper No. 17817
Issued in February 2012

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Previous versions of this paper have been circulated under the title "Pareto-optimal Taxation with Aggregate Uncertainty and Financial Markets.'' I am especially grateful to Daron Acemoglu and Ivan Werning for ongoing support and discussions. I also thank Abhijit Banerjee, Felix Bierbrauer, Peter Diamond, Emmanuel Farhi, Mike Golosov, Christian Hellwig, Casey Rothschild, Alp Simsek, Robert Townsend, Aleh Tsyvinski, Matthew Weinzierl and seminar participants for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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