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quality by aecting the composition of trade volume. Instead, their results
support the existence of a liquidity eect through which such a tax worsens
market quality and indirectly aects even the exempted traders.
− Italy has introduced in March 2013 a FTT on stocks of corporations with
a market capitalization above €500 million. Primary market transactions,
temporary purchases of securities (such as repurchase agreements), intraday
operations, and market- making on the regulated market are exempted. Cap-
pelletti etal. (2017) nd that on the regulated market, the FTT reduced
liquidity, but it left transactions volumes unaected. However, part of the
OTC market may have migrated to the regulated market where the FTT
rate is ...