
Ben Lockwood
@ben_lockwood_57
Economist, professor @warwickuni, Director of Research at @OxfordTax, Research Fellow @cepr_org
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https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/blockwood/ 01-06-2020 13:22:51
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Congratulations to Steve McCorriston on 30 years of service at University of Exeter. Smart bench in the quad in his honour!



The educational price of pollution youtu.be/KwE6X2NSk1E via YouTube Ludovica Gazzè Warwick Economics #WorldEnvironmentDay




But empirical work Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation by Ben Lockwood Li Liu and others supports this view and has caused rethink. Let us hope that rethink makes an impression on policy makers.Freezing the threshold in then UK is a start. Don’t think variable rate would be acceptable.2/2


And here are some econometrics of death to go along with the chart, from Ben Lockwood and colleagues, with occasionally grizzly details at warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…


Thanks Michael Keen for highlighting my joint work with Eddy HF Tam and Li Liu on the effects of the VAT threshold on small firm growth in the UK-there are significant and long-lasting negative consequences





