We investigate the extent to which the effect of the 2018/2019 US import tariff hikes on US (post-tariff) import prices … Chinese exporters react to an USD appreciation by markedly lowering their US dollar-denominated export prices. This holds in … that offsetting effects on the newly imposed tariffs were substantial. …

Previous empirical investigations provide evidence of substantial regional variation in the supply elasticity of … housing, and show that the elasticity and its variation across cities within the U.S. are significantly influenced by … indicating that the supply elasticity is largely a local phenomenon, i.e., dependent mainly on city specific factors rather than …

studies for profit-related taxes and are slightly lower for value-added taxes, whereas the long-run elasticity for wage taxes …

I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for … higher incomes. Permanent income elasticity does not vary much among income classes, is rather low, and ranges between 0 …

This paper provides new empirical insights on the elasticity of taxable income for Germany. Using a rich panel of …), this dynamic model delivers significant smaller estimates of the elasticity of taxable income. The overall estimate is 0 … married and single assessed taxpayers with an elasticity of 0.17 for single and 0.44 for married taxpayers. These elasticities …

instead of tax return data, as commonly done in the literature, results in a significant bias of the elasticity away from zero. …