Public
Economics, Fourth Mini, Spring 2019
Monday
3.30pm, Tuesday 10.00am, Hanson 4-168.
Tuesday
March 12th Ramsey Taxation; Atkeson, Chari and Kehoe “Taxing Capital Income: A Bad Idea” My Notes
Monday
March 25th Ramsey Taxation: Straub
and Werning 2018 “Positive
Long Run Capital Taxation: Chamley-Judd Revisited” Slides Notes
Tuesday
March 26th Mirrlees Taxation Notes
Monday
April 1st Mirrlees Taxation “Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey”
Tuesday
April 2nd Dynamic
Mirrlees Taxation Job Boerma’s Notes
“Insurance
and Taxation over the Life Cycle”: Farhi and Werning
Monday
April 8th Mirrleesian Wealth Taxation: Shourideh “Optimal
Taxation of Wealthy Households”
Tuesday
April 9th Ramsey
Wealth Taxation: Guvenen et al. “Use
It or Lose It: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation”
“Capitalists in the
21st Century”: Smith et al.
Monday
April 15th Redistributive
Taxation “Consumption and Labor
Supply with Partial Insurance”: Heathcote, Storesletten
and Violante
Tuesday
April 16th Redistributive
Taxation Continued “Optimal Tax
Progressivity: An Analytical Framework”: Heathcote, Storesletten
and Violante
Monday
April 22nd Computational
Tools for Life Cycle Models Notes
Tuesday
April 23rd “The
Rise in US Earnings Inequality: Does the Cycle Drive the Trend?” Heathcote, Perri and Violante
Monday
April 29th Retirement
and Social Security “The Effects of
Health, Wealth and Wages on Labour Supply and
Retirement” French