
Will The Emerging Trade War Reorient How We Think About Sustainability?
by Brent Sohngen (sohngen.1@osu.edu) The world has been on a hot streak over the last 70 years. Global income growth shot up at an average annual pace of 2% per year (Figure 1). This fast pace of wealth accumulation more…
Could US Buyers Bear the Cost of Import Tariffs?
By Ian Sheldon (sheldon.1@osu.edu) To trade economists this seems a rather odd question, the answer to which would be: well of course tariffs impose costs on buyers (consumers and firms purchasing inputs), and the basic explanation can be found in…
Housing Prices and Tariffs on Canadian Softwood Lumber
by Brent Sohngen (Sohngen.1@osu.edu) Click here for roughly 5 minute podcast version of this post [Global Forest Podcast] Understandably, there has been confusion and concern in the marketplace due to the weekend decision by the Trump Administration to impose tariffs…

Do US Buyers Bear the Cost of Import Tariffs?
By Ian Sheldon (sheldon.1@osu.edu) To trade economists this seems a rather odd question, the answer to which would be: well of course tariffs impose costs on buyers (consumers and firms purchasing inputs), and the basic explanation can be found in…
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