All Outputs (6)

Does Revenue rise when tax rate is lowered? Reflections on Truss-Sunak debate on tax policy (2022)
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Basu, P. (2022). Does Revenue rise when tax rate is lowered? Reflections on Truss-Sunak debate on tax policy

Cross-country Disparities in Skill Premium and Skill Acquisition (2022)
Journal Article
Banerjee, A., Basu, P., & Keller, E. (2023). Cross-country Disparities in Skill Premium and Skill Acquisition. Economic Inquiry, 61(1), 179-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13107

Skilled individuals are rewarded more in poor than in rich countries. Why aren’t more individuals acquiring skills in poor countries? We document that the unemployment rate of the skilled net of that of the unskilled decreases with a country’s level... Read More about Cross-country Disparities in Skill Premium and Skill Acquisition.

An illusory Phillips curve: Is now the right time for a rate hike? (2022)
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Basu, P. (2022). An illusory Phillips curve: Is now the right time for a rate hike?

Inflation is looming all over the world (2022)
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Basu, P. (2022). Inflation is looming all over the world

Beware of digital currency (2022)
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Basu, P. (2022). Beware of digital currency

COVID Social Distancing and the Poor: An Analysis of the Evidence for England (2022)
Journal Article
Basu, P., Bell, C., & Edwards, T. H. (2022). COVID Social Distancing and the Poor: An Analysis of the Evidence for England. BE Journal of Macroeconomics, 22(1), 211-240. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0250

Social distancing is a matter of individuals’ choices as well as of regulation. We analyse weekly panel data on such behaviour for English Upper Tier Local Authorities (UTLAs) from March to July 2020, paying attention to the influence of poverty, as... Read More about COVID Social Distancing and the Poor: An Analysis of the Evidence for England.