Daniel Riera-Crichton is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Bates College. His research concentrates around issues in international finance with a particular interest in international capital flows, international relative prices and macroeconomic policy. Daniel holds a B.A. in economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), a M.A. in quantitative analysis from Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Based on evidence from the industrial world, and particularly Europe, tax hikes have a significant negative effect on economic activity. The column shows that this empirical finding does ...
