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bodies and nancial institutions concerning disclosure and transparency, the re-
sponsibilities of the board, the rights and equitable treatment of shareholders, etc.
Issues related to the quality of CEOs (“t and proper”) as well as absence of con-
icts of interest are also key components of supervision hence nancial stability,
but little academic research is available.
4.3 Taxation
Two modes of taxing nance in order to promote nancial stability have been
proposed: a nancial transactions tax (FTT; 4.3.1) and a nancial activities tax
(FAT; 4.3.2). The tax bias in favour of debt nancing is dealt with in Chapter 9.
4.3.1 Financial transactions tax
The motives to introduce FTT (4.3.1.1), then the results of empirical studies ...