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John Sturm Becko

Job Market Candidate

Research Fields

International Economics, Public Economics, Macroeconomics

Publications

A Theory of Economic Sanctions as Terms-of-Trade Manipulation   

Journal of International Economics  July 2024.

 

How Should Sanctions Account for Bystander Countries?  

AEA Papers & Proceedings  May 2023. 


Working papers

Income Taxation with Elasticity Heterogeneity  

with André Sztutman.  June 2024. 

Rejected and resubmitted, American Economic Review

 

A World Trading System for Whom? Evidence from Global Tariffs  

with Rodrigo AdãoArnaud Costinot, and Dave Donaldson.  July 2024.

 

Why is Trade Not Free? A Revealed Preference Approach  

with Rodrigo AdãoArnaud Costinot, and Dave Donaldson.  October 2023.  Online Supplement

 

How to Fix a Coordination Failure: A 'Super-Pigouvian' Approach  

January 2023.

 

Fiscal Policy in a Networked Economy  

with Joel Flynn and Christina Patterson.  June  2024.


Works in progress

Technological Change and the Cost of Redistribution

with André Sztutman and Anchi Xia

 

Non-Substitution: A Modern Treatment  

Available upon request


Policy writing

The Simple Economics of Optimal Sanctions: The Case of EU-Russia Energy Trade  

with Kai Menzel and Jan Schmitz. April 2022.

 

The Simple Economics of Trade Sanctions on Russia: A Policymaker's Guide  

April 2022.