Economists have generally underplayed until recently globalization’s role in exacerbating inequality in the advanced economies. But in the…
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…
Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution
CID Faculty Working Paper No. 407
Pierre Bachas, Lucie Gadenne & Anders Jensen…
Using Fontana et al.’s (2019) database, we analyze levels and trends in the global distribution of authorship in economics journals,…
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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…