This briefing note compares trends in output, consumer spending and saving from the 2020 recession with those from two previous recessions beginning in 1990 and 2008.
12 November 2021
8 November 2021
Carbon pricing can be a powerful tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. What are the risks and opportunities from such policies in developing countries?
4 November 2021
3 November 2021
In this paper, we model the revenue that could be raised from an annual and a one-off wealth tax of the design recommended by Advani, Chamberlain and Summers in the Wealth Tax Commission's Final Report (2020).
25 October 2021
This paper is concerned primarily with the question of who should pay a wealth tax and in what circumstances, if such a tax is to be levied.
25 October 2021
In this paper, we review the existing empirical evidence on how individuals respond to the incentives created by a net wealth tax.
25 October 2021
In this paper, I examine the role of a wealth tax in the context of the UK's existing taxes on wealth.
25 October 2021
We show that wealth inequality in the UK is high and has increased slightly over the past decade as financial asset prices have increased in the wake of the financial crisis.
25 October 2021
This article asks when a wealth tax would in principle be a desirable part of the tax system, setting aside the practicalities and politics that would be crucial in reality.
25 October 2021
We show the importance of Berkson errors for demand estimation with nonseparable unobserved heterogeneity.
9 February 2021
25 October 2021