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Ayumu Ken Kikkawa

Ayumu Ken Kikkawa is an Assistant Professor at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2018. Dr. Kikkawa’s research focuses on inter-firm trade, using detailed micro data on firms and networks from multiple countries. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Review of Economic Studies.
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Market Power Shifts Tariff Costs to Suppliers

Vanessa Alviarez
Many studies have assumed that United States tariff costs are passed onto consumers. In new research, Vanessa Alviarez, Michele Fioretti, Ken Kikkawa, and Monica Morlacco argue that buyer-seller relationship dynamics allow dominant U.S. importers to instead force higher costs onto exporters.

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