During the U.S.-China trade war, the U.S. punitive tariffs were almost entirely borne by U.S. importers. In contrast …, only 68% of China's retaliatory tariffs were paid by Chinese importers. The puzzling difference between the U.S. and China … product-level tariff pass-through and show that a higher ratio of import demand elasticity over export supply elasticity leads …

) develops a formula for estimating the elasticity of value-added with respect to the statutory tax. We show that the marginal … excess burden of the tax on suppliers is measured by this elasticity, extending Feldstein.s analysis of the elasticity of … transactions, again consistently with the theory. We provide an estimate of the elasticity of the VAT tax base in the range of 0 …

delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could cause such prolonged differential import growth. We examine how …

non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and … in import tariffs by 1 percentage point reduces imports by around 1.4 percent. Hence the two instruments are not …

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …

Trade elasticity is a crucial parameter in evaluating the welfare impacts of changes in trade frictions. The value of … bilateral applied tariffs for each product category for the universe of available country pairs over the 2001 to 2016 period. We …