ECON 524 Graduate Public Finance II

ECON 524 Graduate Public Finance II

Semester
Spring
Offered
2020

This is the third part of the graduate public finance sequence.

  • Overview material
    • 1a. Overview of public finance
    • 1b. Applied Economics Tools
  • Spatial Public Finance
    • 2. Overview of spatial public finance & the Rosen Roback model
    • 3a. Place-based policies: theory
    • 3b. Place-based policies: evidence
    • 4. Sorting, Fiscal federalism
  • Capital Taxation
    • 5a. Capital taxation: overview, facts, and theory
    • 5b. The distribution and taxation of wealth
    • 6. Business tax policy and firm location
  • Tax policy, investment, and innovation
    • 7. Investment and corporate financial policy
    • 8. Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Top earners

Assignments (subject to change):

  • Response to Albouy (2009) due before lecture 2
  • Problem Set on spatial taxation due before lecture 3
  • Response to Bayer, Ferreira, and McMillan (2007) before lecture 4
  • Response to Jakobsen Jakobsen Kleven, Zucman (2020) before lecture 5
  • Problem Set on Wealth Tax before lecture 6
  • Problem Set on Million Dollar Plants due before lecture 7
  • Problem Set on Base versus Rates before lecture 8