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 …

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 …

investment. We make the outcomes of 25 empirical studies comparable by computing the tax rate elasticity under a uniform … definition. The mean value of the tax rate elasticity in the literature is around -3.3, i.e. a 1%-point reduction in the host …