Jacco Wielhouwer
jaccowielhouwer.bsky.social
Jacco Wielhouwer
@jaccowielhouwer.bsky.social
Professor at the School of Business and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Research areas: compliance and enforcement of regulation, economic and behavioural consequences of taxation, disclosure of information, firm investment behavior
And a very nice illustration of failing to sustain a cooperative equilibrium. Indeed, cooperation can be realized in an indefinitely repeated game, but if you don't care about the future....
April 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@kclausing.bsky.social My colleague (Kees Camfferman) did a quick check; the numbers seem to be for each country the trade deficits divided by US import. Indeed not tariffs at all ...
April 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Aren't the figures in the left column that should be 'reciprocated' trade deficits/import? It has nothing do do with tariffs levied by these countries
April 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
En de linker kolom zijn helemaal geen importtarieven van die lanen....
April 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Wow...dat was echt 'deeply committed' to diversity and inclusion...🙄🤐
March 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Jacco Wielhouwer
Dit heeft enorme gevolgen voor studenten, docenten en onderzoekers aan universiteiten, maar betekent op termijn ook enorme schadelijke effecten voor de hele samenleving.

Stop de bezuinigingen op universiteiten en wetenschap! Beste senatoren, Doe het niet!
March 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Reposted by Jacco Wielhouwer
(3/3) If a candidate announced a tax increase on the poor and middle class to fund a tax cut for the rich, voters would soundly reject that proposal. But tariffs wrap this fiscal switch in a veneer of nationalism.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
Opinion | The Real Reason President Trump Pushes Tariffs
President Trump is remaking the tax code to favor the well-off even more and cloaking these changes in a veneer of nationalism.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM