We compare two approaches to increasing tax revenue: tax administration and tax rates. We show that when Indonesia moved top regional firms…
Conventional welfare state policies that centre on education, training, progressive taxation, and social insurance are inadequate to…
Is a credible multilateral climate change agreement feasible? This column says that such global cooperation is necessary and attempts to…
Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to
consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once…
Using Fontana et al.’s (2019) database, we analyze levels and trends in the global distribution of authorship in economics journals,…
We study how search and information frictions shape market dynamics in global e-commerce. Observational data and self-collected quality…
To investigate barriers to universal health insurance in developing countries, we designed a randomized experiment involving about 6,000…
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A little over a year ago, the European Union’s (EU) political leaders agreed on an unprecedented fiscal package – dubbed ‘Next Generation…
A majority of countries neither freely float their currencies nor firmly peg. But most of the remainder in practice also don’t obey such…
Faced with an overwhelming crisis, governments across the world grappled with difficult policy choices in response to COVID. Resolving…