Seemingly common-sense taxation approaches raise issues of equity, tax administration, and unintended economic consequences.

El estallido de la burbuja residencial en los Estados Unidos, a principios del 2007, rápidamente afecto al sector financiero no bancario y a los nuevos instrumentos crediticios y de seguros que se habían desarrollado al margen de las regulaciones nacionales e internacionales. Su efecto se...

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918–1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19).

There is an ongoing debate about the effect of changes in labor regulations such as Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on rising income inequality in the U.S. In this paper, we use a relatively new methodology, the Synthetic Control Method – which we argue is more suitable for analyzing this data – to...

We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than expenditure in India, especially at the top of the...