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Short-term and long-term government debt and non-resident interest withholding taxes

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  • Eijffinger, Sylvester
  • Huizinga, Harry
  • Lemmen, Jan
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This paper examines the incidence of nonresident interest withholding taxes in the international 3-month Treasury-bill market and the international 5-year government bond market. The approach is one of pooled cross-section, time-series regressions. The evidence suggests that the yields on national Treasury-bills and on 5-year government bonds fully reflect the nonresident interest withholding taxes imposed on American or Japanese investors. Nonresident interest withholding taxes on short-term and long-term government debt thus do not appear to be borne by the international investor.

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  • Eijffinger, Sylvester & Huizinga, Harry & Lemmen, Jan, 1997. "Short-term and long-term government debt and non-resident interest withholding taxes," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 119164, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    Keywords

    withholding taxation; interest parity conditions; government debt;
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    JEL classification:

    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
    • H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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