Syllabus/achievement requirements

All slides available here 

 

@ = online syllabus

Books

Hindriks, J. and Myles, G. Intermediate Public Economics, 2006. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, ISBN: 9780262083447 

or

Hindriks, J. and Myles, G. Intermediate Public Economics, 2013. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, ISBN: 9780262083447, second edition.

Lecture notes

@ Lecture notes (will be uploaded on the semester page)

Articles

@ Auerbach et al. (2011). “Corporate taxation in an international context”, Mirrlees Review: Tax by Design, Oxford University Press.

@ Auerbach, Devereux and Simpson (2010). “Taxing corporate income”, Mirrlees Review: Dimensions of Tax Design, Oxford University Press. 

@ Auerbach et al. (2011). “Taxing corporate income”, Mirrlees Review: Tax by Design, Oxford University Press

@ Auerbach and Hines (2002). “Taxation and Economic Efficiency”, Handbook of Public Economics, Volume 3, 2002, Pages 1347-1421

@ Allcott, Lockwood and Taubinsky (2018). “Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax”. Mimeo. 

@ Boadway, R. Principles of cost-benefit analysis, 2006. East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, pp. 1-44.

@ Boadway, R. and Keen, M. (2014). “Rent Taxes and Royalties in Designing Fiscal Regimes for Non-Renewable Resources.” CESifo Working Paper no. 4568. Appearing in Layton and R. Halvorsen (eds.) (2015). Handbook on the Economics of Natural Resources. Edwin Elgar, Cheltenham, UK

@ Chay and Greenstone (2005): “Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 113, No. 2, pp. 376-424. 

@ Chetty and Finkelstein (2013). “Social Insurance: Connecting Theory to Data” in Handbook of Public Economics, Volume 5: 111-193, 2013. 

@ Chetty, Raj, and Emmanuel Saez. 2010. "Dividend and Corporate Taxation in an Agency Model of the Firm." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2 (3): 1-31. 

@ Chetty, Looney and Kroft (2009): “Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence”, American Economic Review 99 (4), pp. 1145-77

@ Christiansen, V. Public provision of private goods. Notes for Plenary lecture at the Congress of the International Institute for Public Finance, Helsinki, 2002 (pdf).

@ Edwards, J., Keen, M. and Tuomala, M. Income tax, commodity taxes and public good provision: A brief guide, 1994. Finanzarchiv / Public Finance Analysis 51(4): pp. 472-487

@ Einav and Finkelstein (2011). “Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 25, Number 1, pp. 115–138. 

@ Goulder and Williams III (2003). “The Substantial Bias from Ignoring General Equilibrium Effects in Estimating Excess Burden, and a Practical Solution,” Journal of Political Economy 111, no. 4, pp. 898-927.

@ Griffith; Hines; Birch Sørensen (2010). “International capital taxation”, Mirrlees Review: Dimensions of Tax Design, Oxford University Press

@ Hendren (2017). "Efficient Welfare Weights", Working Paper.

@ Keen, M. and Konrad, K. (2013). “The Theory of International Tax Competition and Coordination”, Handbook of Public Economics, Volume 5, 2013, Pages 257-328. 

@ Kopczuk (2013). “Taxation of Intergenerational Transfers and Wealth”, Handbook of Public Economics, Volume 5, 2013, Pages 329-390.

@ Kotlikoff and Summers (1987), “Tax Incidence”, Handbook of Public Economics, Volume 2, 1987, Pages 1043-1092; sec. 1-3. 

@ Lalley and Weyl, “Quadratic Voting: How Mechanism Design Can Radicalize Democracy”, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 1(1).

@ Lindhe and Södersten, "The Norwegian Shareholder Tax Reconsidered", International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, 19(3).

@ List, John A. 2011. “The Market for Charitable Giving.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25 (2): 157-80.

@ Lund, Diderik 2013. "Taxation of Nonrenewable Resources", Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, 2: 224-231.

@ Mieszkowski, Peter, and George R. Zodrow. “Taxation and The Tiebout Model: The Differential Effects of Head Taxes, Taxes on Land Rents, and Property Taxes.” Journal of Economic Literature 27, no. 3 (1989): 1098-146.

@ Piketty, T. and Saez, E. Optimal Labor Income Taxation in Auerbach, A.J., Chetty, R. Feldstein, M. and Saez, E. (eds.), 2013. Handbook of Public Economics, vol. 5. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53759-1.00007-8.

@ Posner, E. and G. Weyl "Property Is Only Another Name for Monopoly", Journal of Legal Analysis 9: 51-123.

@ Saez, E. "Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates", Review of Economic Studies 68: 205-229.

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