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. …

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 of trade to distance over the period. …

Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer … from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs … every year and missing data are more prevalent for preferential than for most favored nation (MFN) tariffs. WITS, the main …