TY - JOUR AU - Artés, Joaquín AU - Botello Mainieri, Ana Melissa AU - Sánchez Fuentes, Antonio Jesús PY - 2019 DO - 10.1007/s13209-019-00204-1 SN - 1869-4187 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12379 T2 - SERIEs AB - We propose a method to capture the efect of tax reforms on consumer’s readiness to buy using Google searches as a proxy. We use the Spanish 2010 and 2012 VAT reforms as a case of study. We use a regression discontinuity design taking advantage of the... LA - eng M2 - 321 PB - Springer KW - Private consumption KW - Value-added tax KW - Indirect taxation KW - Unconventional fscal policy KW - Google Trends KW - Big data TI - Tax reforms and Google searches: the case of Spanish VAT reforms during the great recession TY - journal article VL - 10 ER -