Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/68508 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 283
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
This research examines capital income taxation for a loss averse investor under some acceptable in the literature reference levels relative to which are the changes in the level of wealth valued. Depending on the reference level, some results indicate that it could be possible for a capital income tax increase not to stimulate risk taking even if the tax code provides the attractive full loss offset provisions. However, risk taking can be stimulated if the investor interprets part of the tax as a loss instead as a reduced gain. Then investor becomes risk seeking and moves away from the discomfort zone of relative losses. This later response to taxation causes private risk taking to increase which is contrary to what evolves from assuming an expected utility model. Finally, a number of other reference standards are examined as well.
Subjects: 
risk taking
portfolio choice
prospect theory
loss aversion
reference level
taxation
JEL: 
G11
H2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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