The Incidence of Distortions (joint Baptiste Bernadac, Dave Donaldson, Tishara Garg and Federico Huneeus)
19 May 2026 5:45 pm CEST
David Atkin (MIT) presents his research (jointly with Baptiste Bernadac, Dave Donaldson, Tishara Garg and Federico Huneeus) in the Vienna International Economics Seminar (VIES) series
In cooperation with CEU, FIW, Universität Wien, WIFO, WIIW and WU.
Venue
University of Vienna at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
1090 Vienna
2nd floor, HS15
Description
Economicdistortions—such as market power, taxes, credit constraints, etc.— arefundamental in understanding income differences across countries. Recent workhas documented the pervasive extent of economic distortions and how they leadto sub-stantial aggregate productivity loss. Far less well understood is howthese phenomena affect members of society differently. In this paper we combineunique datasets from Chile, linking workers and owners to firms, firms to eachother, firms to consumers, and firms and consumers to the government, in orderto quantify the incidence of distortions for the first time.
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Registration
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The VIES seminar is dedicated to frontier research in international economics and features presentations by renowned international scholars.
The VIES is a joint initiative of CEU, FIW, Universität Wien, WIFO, wiiw and WU.