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Tethered Money: Managing Digital Currency Transactions presents a comprehensive discussion of financial transactions using digital currencies, with the author, Gideon Samid, making the case for their expansion in tethered money. Exploring the technical, legal, and historical aspects of digital money, the author discusses how the emerging technology of money specified for a specific need or to perform a particular task will affect society. The ability to dictate, Samid argues, how money is spent could increase control over our lives and resources, enabling us to practice a certain efficiency that would, in due time, become a pillar of civilization. Informative and thought-provoking, the book describes an evolving future that, in some quarters, has already arrived

Intro -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 ISSUES AND ASSUMPTIONS -- 2 THE CTT RATE -- 3 CTT REVENUE ESTIMATES -- 4 ADVANTAGES OF THE CTT -- APPENDIX: PREDICTING POST-CTT TRANSACTION VOLUME -- REFERENCES.

Never before in history has the amount of international trade been higher or more efficient than it is today. The fastest growing type of trade is the speculative currency trading, searching for instant profit based only on the anticipation of the variations in currency exchange rates. When currency speculation becomes an influential part of the capital flows it becomes harmful and creates instability of currency systems. Exchange rates starts to fluctuate due to the will and anticipation of speculators rather than the economic health of the country associated with the currency. This has led to recurring currency crises all over the world and an increased interest in regulatory mechanisms. One of the most discussed mechanisms proposed to handle this harmful evolution of the foreign exchange markets is the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT). The CTT stipulates a low tax (0.1 per cent) on all currency transaction to curb the incitement of short-term speculation based on a large amount of smaller transactions. The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether an implementation of a CTT is compatible with the EU treaties. This purpose consists of two research questions; whether the CTT is in conformity with the substantive law of the EU, more precisely the free movements of capital, and if the CTT is in conformity with the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the exclusive power of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) over monetary policy. Since this thesis aims to identify if the CTT is in conformity with existing legislation, the traditional doctrinal method is used for identifying and analysing potential difficulties with the CTT and to interpret these provisions in the light of ECJ case law and literature. The thesis concludes that the CTT is in conformity with the EU treaties. It does however require the full cooperation of the ESCB and ECB to achieve the objectives; to create a more stable currency market. The CTT is ready to implement.

This paper considers whether a tax on currency transactions could be expected to raise a significant sum of money for use in the war on poverty. It traces the detailed discussion of Kenen and the subsequent argument of Schmidt, that technical developments would now permit the tax to be levied efficiently by the five authorities who issue currencies in which transactions are settled. It notes the creation of the CLS Bank and the proposal to confine a currency transactions tax to transactions that go through that bank, but argues that this would have dangers. It notes also Spahn's proposal for a geographically limited tax, but argues that this would not be advantageous if the aim is to raise revenue. The final verdict is that a currency transactions tax of 1 basis point would be feasible and could be expected to raise a sum of the order of US$ 20 billion per year. (CEPAL Rev/GIGA)

The purpose of this dissertation is to expose a theoretical analysis of the effects that a currency transaction tax, usually called Tobin Tax, could entail. Five essays are outlined. The first one highlights the bases and limitations of this debated proposition. In the second one, a stochastic simulation model is built in order to study the effects of such a measure on real investments and the link between tax weight and expectations. Our result is the following one : the welfare of all agents decreases whereas long term investors are the least penalized. In the third one, by using macro-monetary models and microstructure theory, we analyse the interest of such a tax in terms of exchange market efficiency. The fourth essay proposes an econometrical analysis. With a real data set, we suggest to measure for the first time the sensibility of the transactions volume to the tax. Through a cointegration analysis using panel data, an estimation of the so-called foreign transactions elasticity to taxation is presented. The obtained value is - 0.45 for any currency parity. Following this idea, we set out an estimation of the revenues that such a tax would yield in the last fifth part of the dissertation. ; L'objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une analyse théorique des effets d'une taxe sur les transactions de change, encore appelée taxe Tobin. Plusieurs essais sont ainsi proposés. Dans le premier, on présente les fondements et les limites de cette mesure controversée. Dans le second, un modèle de simulation stochastique est construit afin d'étudier les effets de cette mesure sur les investissements productifs et le lien entre la charge de taxation et le type d'anticipations. On montre que si le bien-être de tous les investisseurs diminue, les investisseurs de long terme sont de loin les moins pénalisés. Dans le troisième, on revisite, au carrefour des modèles macro-monétaires et de la théorie microstructurelle, l'intérêt d'une telle taxe en matière de variabilité des taux de change. Lorsque le taux est faible, la ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to expose a theoretical analysis of the effects that a currency transaction tax, usually called Tobin Tax, could entail. Five essays are outlined. The first one highlights the bases and limitations of this debated proposition. In the second one, a stochastic simulation model is built in order to study the effects of such a measure on real investments and the link between tax weight and expectations. Our result is the following one : the welfare of all agents decreases whereas long term investors are the least penalized. In the third one, by using macro-monetary models and microstructure theory, we analyse the interest of such a tax in terms of exchange market efficiency. The fourth essay proposes an econometrical analysis. With a real data set, we suggest to measure for the first time the sensibility of the transactions volume to the tax. Through a cointegration analysis using panel data, an estimation of the so-called foreign transactions elasticity to taxation is presented. The obtained value is - 0.45 for any currency parity. Following this idea, we set out an estimation of the revenues that such a tax would yield in the last fifth part of the dissertation. ; L'objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une analyse théorique des effets d'une taxe sur les transactions de change, encore appelée taxe Tobin. Plusieurs essais sont ainsi proposés. Dans le premier, on présente les fondements et les limites de cette mesure controversée. Dans le second, un modèle de simulation stochastique est construit afin d'étudier les effets de cette mesure sur les investissements productifs et le lien entre la charge de taxation et le type d'anticipations. On montre que si le bien-être de tous les investisseurs diminue, les investisseurs de long terme sont de loin les moins pénalisés. Dans le troisième, on revisite, au carrefour des modèles macro-monétaires et de la théorie microstructurelle, l'intérêt d'une telle taxe en matière de variabilité des taux de change. Lorsque le taux est faible, la ...

Doc 1 (Draft) of The Doha Review Conference and the "Proposal for an international political agreement to implement a currency transaction tax (CTT)" ; Preprint

Doc 1 (Draft) of The Doha Review Conference and the "Proposal for an international political agreement to implement a currency transaction tax (CTT)" ; Preprint

International audience ; In 1971, after the demise of the international monetary system, the so-called Bretton Woods system that ensured semi-fixed exchange rates thanks to capital controls, James Tobin conceived his now famous" Tobin tax". Since then, some supporters of his original proposal have introduced some major changes to make it more suited to financial globalization. Paul Bernd Spahn (2002) in particular has proposed a two-tier Currency Transaction Tax (hereafter CTT). The CTT could curb the usual speculation that occurs during "normal times" but also deter big speculative attacks that strike especially, but not exclusively, developing countries. This paper shows that a fine tuned CTT could discourage, if not suppress, capital flights that plague fragile developing countries before and after the burst of an economic crisis. However it is true that a CTT cannot do everything, but the same applies for every other proposal such as prudential regulations and capital controls. Rather than looking for the fairy's wand, it is wiser to combine a full array of instruments at hand to construct a safe financial environment for economic progressive policies.