Public
Economics, Fourth Mini, Spring 2018
Monday and
Wednesday, 9am-10.40am, Hanson 4-170.
Monday
March 19th Ramsey Taxation; Atkeson, Chari and Kehoe “Taxing Capital Income: A Bad Idea” My Notes
Wendesday March 21st Ramsey
Taxation: Straub and Werning 2015 “Positive Long Run Capital Taxation: Chamley-Judd Revisited” Slides
Monday
March 26th Domeij and Heathcote 2004 “On the Distributional
Effects of Reducing Capital Taxes”
Acikgoz 2015 “Transitional
Dynamics and Long-Run Optimal Taxation under Incomplete Markets”
Wedsnesday March 28th No Class
Monday
April 2nd Chari
Nicolini and Teles x 2 “Optimal Capital Taxation Revisited”
“Ramsey
Taxation in the Global Economy”
Wednesday
April 4th Heathcote,
Storesletten, and Violante
2017 “Optimal Tax
Progressivity: An Analytical Framework”
Slides
Monday
April 9th Methods
for solving savings problems “Rough Notes”
Wednesday
April 11th Heathcote
and Tsujiyama 2017 “Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey”
Monday
April 16th Mirrlees taxation continued
Wednesday
April 18th Mirrlees taxation continued
Monday
April 23rd Krueger
and Ludwig “On the
Optimal Provision of Social Insurance: Progressive Taxation versus Education
Subsidies in General Equilibrium”
Wednesday
April 25th Dyrda and Pedroni “Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Model with Uninsurable
Idiosyncratic Shocks”
Monday
April 30th Stantcheva “Optimal Taxation and Human Capital Policies Over the Life-Cycle”
Wednesday
May 2nd Scheuer
and Werning “Mirrlees Meets Diamond Mirrlees: Simplifying Nonlinear Income Taxation”