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Tao Chen

@taochen.bsky.social
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Lightly seasoned economist 📈 PhD candidate @UCL Scholar @IFS @theifs.bsky.social IO / Demand Estimation/ Consumption

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
NEW: The government's £35bn energy support packages in 2022–23 significantly alleviated household losses, but were poorly targeted and encouraged energy overuse. @peterlevell.bsky.social, Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith's paper finds that a better design could have saved £4.5bn:
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
About to start!
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In the paper, we also address measurement concerns for cost-of-living change interpretations. We provide suggestive evidences pointing to differential pass-through as the driver of cheapflation leveraging on an earlier cost-shock on imports driven by Brexit referendum. #EconSky
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
6) How does all of this contribute to inflation inequality we observe? Turns out cheaper products see much higher price hikes, a phenomenon termed “Cheapflation”. This is prevalent across categories and novel in the recent history.
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
5/ How households with different spending power systematically differ on their choices within categories? Poorer households favor cheaper products, increasing their exposure to price changes of those products.
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
4b/ A conventional CPI calculation, which uses data at category level, would mask a substantial degree of inflation inequality.
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
4a/Where does this inequality arise? It turns out that most of the differences in inflation rates across households is not because of differences across categories or types, rather it is driven by differences in what exact products they buy *within* categories.
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
3/ In a break with recent history, the cost of buying the typical grocery baskets of poorer (lower spending) households also rose by more than richer households. Households in the bottom quarter of spending saw inflation rates 5.6ppt higher than those in top quarter.
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
2/ We look at the period September 21 to September 23 using detailed data on grocery purchases. Relative to the past, grocery price inflation was very high. There were also large differences in the inflation different households experienced according to what they bought.
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Are poorer households hit harder by inflation during cost-of-living crisis? We already know higher share of their spending is on necessities such as food and drink with higher inflation. But it turns out not to be the full story: our paper takes a detailed look on the recent crisis. 🧵
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Tao Chen @taochen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Important analysis on differential household responses to sectoral change driven by global trade!
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