Michele Fioretti

Michele Fioretti is an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Before joining Bocconi, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California in 2019. Dr. Fioretti’s research focuses on corporate social responsibility, environmental economics, and international trade, using methods from industrial organization. His work has been published in the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economics and Statistics.

Market Power Shifts Tariff Costs to Suppliers

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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