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Research argues older workers should pay higher taxes than younger workers in US

By Grace Shore Banks | 27 May 2021

New research carried out by Professor Miltos Makris with Professor Alessandro Pavan Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) claims that on average workers become more productive over … Read more

Should older workers pay higher taxes than younger ones?   

By Grace Shore Banks | 13 January 2021

In the article “Taxation under Learning-by-doing,” recently published in the Journal of Political Economy, Professors Makris (University of Kent, UK) and Pavan (Northwestern University, USA) argue … Read more

Makris and Toxvaerd publish their working paper ‘Great Expectations: Social Distancing in Anticipation of Pharmaceutical Innovations’

By Grace Shore Banks | 23 October 2020

Miltos Makris has published his working paper Great Expectations: Social Distancing in Anticipation of Pharmaceutical Innovations, research in collaboration with Cambridge University’s Flavio Toxvaerd. “It sheds … Read more

“Biased Technological Change and Employment Reallocation” paper accepted by Labour Economics journal.

By Grace Shore Banks | 02 October 2020

Christian Siegel’s paper “Biased Technological Change and Employment Reallocation” (with Zsofia Barany) has been accepted by Labour Economics, Special Issue on Technology and the Labour … Read more

Miltos Makris’ co-authored paper ‘Residence and source-based capital taxation in open economies with infinitely-lived consumers’ has been accepted in the Journal of International Economics 

By Grace Shore Banks | 11 September 2020

What is the effect of capital market integration on capital taxes when governments can tax according to the residence as well as the source principle? … Read more

Professor Iain Fraser is editor of new environmental journal, Q Open.

By Grace Shore Banks | 02 September 2020

Professor Iain Fraser is the lead editor for a new journal – Q Open launched this summer by Oxford University Press and supported by the … Read more

Research focusing on India, post coronavirus, conducted by Amrit Amirapu and Irma Clots-Figueras has been awarded grant.

By Grace Shore Banks | 01 September 2020

Many of our researchers at the School of Economics have been working to create solutions to the economic fallout caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. … Read more

An Economic Analysis of Consumer Attitudes Towards Food Produced Using Prohibited Production Methods: Do Consumers Really Care?

By tjg | 30 June 2020

Discussion paper KDPE 2004 by Kelvin Balcombe (University of Reading), Dylan Bradley (Agra CEAS Consulting) and Iain Fraser (University of Kent), June 2020. Abstract We … Read more

Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities

By tjg | 01 June 2020

New discussion paper Discussion paper KDPE 2003 by Anirban Mitra (University of Kent) and Sarmistha Pal (University of Surrey), April 2020. Non-technical summary An important … Read more

What does a world food shortage mean?

By tjg | 28 April 2020

In response to the news of an impending world food shortage, Dr Amrit Amirapu, an economics expert at Kent, explained what this meant. He said: … Read more

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