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 …

) develops a formula for estimating the elasticity of value-added with respect to the statutory tax. We show that the marginal … excess burden of the tax on suppliers is measured by this elasticity, extending Feldstein.s analysis of the elasticity of … transactions, again consistently with the theory. We provide an estimate of the elasticity of the VAT tax base in the range of 0 …

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …

non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and … in import tariffs by 1 percentage point reduces imports by around 1.4 percent. Hence the two instruments are not …

delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could cause such prolonged differential import growth. We examine how …

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 …

-supply elasticity and of the import-demand elasticity. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques in the case of MFN tariffs and ….g. most favored nation tariffs) and on the exporter side (e.g. export subsidies), even in the presence of exporter and …