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. …

, connection rates and electricity consumption remain low in grid connected areas, at least in the short and medium run. This paper … of grid electricity over time using a panel of 41 communities that were electrified up to ten years ago. We find that …, connection rates are much lower, at 51%. Furthermore, electricity consumption and appliance usage are low and did not grow over …

I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for … higher incomes. Permanent income elasticity does not vary much among income classes, is rather low, and ranges between 0 …

This paper provides new empirical insights on the elasticity of taxable income for Germany. Using a rich panel of …), this dynamic model delivers significant smaller estimates of the elasticity of taxable income. The overall estimate is 0 … married and single assessed taxpayers with an elasticity of 0.17 for single and 0.44 for married taxpayers. These elasticities …

elasticity without the use of consumption or asset data. We find this elasticity on average to be negative, but small. The degree …

Exploiting exogenous variation in retail fuel prices from a temporary fuel tax discount in Germany, we estimate how the … pass-through of the discount varies over space and time. We draw on daily gasoline prices of virtually all gas stations in …