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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. …
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This paper points to flaws in Gini decompositions by income sources and population subgroups and to common pitfalls in the interpretation of decomposition results, focusing on methods within the framework of Rao (1969). We argue that within this framework Gini elasticities may provide the only...
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We use newly linked tax records to show that the large responses of UK company owner-managers to personal taxes are due to intertemporal income shifting and not to reductions in real business activity. Around half of this shifting is short-term and helps prevent volatile incomes being taxed more...
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We study nominal GDP targeting as optimal monetary policy in a model with a credit market friction following Azariadis, Bullard, Singh and Suda (2018), henceforth ABSS. As in ABSS, the macroeconomy we study has considerable income inequality which gives rise to a large private sector credit...
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