In the past most government spending was funded from import tariffs. Simon Evenett and Marc-Andreas Muendler discuss whether this practice could work today, paying attention to the displacement effect on revenues

EU targeting of digital services in tariff retaliation would present challenges. Bertin Martens argues that the European Union lacks an instrument to unpick crossborder transactions on US digital platforms

The tariff measures represent a seismic shift in the global trading landscape. Simon Evenett and Johannes Fritz discuss how the US has moved away from rules-based trade governance toward a results-oriented and probably a more transactional approach

Agriculture contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Mattia Ricci, Ignacio Pérez Domínguez, Stijn Van Houtven, Jordan Hristov and Toon Vandyck examine how to tax agriculture as a path to greening consumption in Europe

The social cost of carbon has been a critical component in shaping climate policy. Christoph Hambel, Ton van den Bremer and Frederick Van Der Ploeg propose a new way to price carbon

A recent EU tax ruling entrenches distortions. Pascal Saint-Amans says Ireland’s massive tax windfall highlights once again the pressing need for reform of profit allocation rules