01825cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF013393 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475577709 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Mooij, Ruud A. Taxation, Bank Leverage, and Financial Crises / Ruud A. Mooij, Michael Keen, Masanori Orihara. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013. 1 online resource (26 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students That most corporate tax systems favor debt over equity finance is now widely recognized as, potentially, amplifying risks to financial stability. This paper makes a first attempt to explore, empirically, the link between this tax bias and the probability of financial crisis. It finds that greater tax bias is associated with significantly higher aggregate bank leverage, and that this in turn is associated with a significantly greater chance of crisis. The implication is that tax bias makes crises much more likely, and, conversely, that the welfare gains from policies to alleviate it can be substantial-far greater than previous studies, which have ignored financial stability considerations, suggest. Mode of access: Internet Keen, Michael. Orihara, Masanori. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/048 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2013/048/001.2013.issue-048-en.xml IMF e-Library