Monica Morlacco

Monica Morlacco is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2018. Dr. Morlacco’s research focuses on market power, particularly in input markets, and extends into other areas such as industrial organization and macro-growth. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Monetary Economics.

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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