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Laura Bowen

Show BioHide BioLaura Bowen is a staff writer for the Chicago Policy Review and is an MPP student at the Harris School of Public Policy. She is interested in economic development policy.

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Rethinking the Optimal Tariff Theory

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Using forty years of price data from the raw cane sugar market in New York City, trade economist Douglas Irwin finds that market demand responds asymmetrically to tariff increases versus tariff reductions. More »