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Problem sets for the course consist largely of problems from the book, Persson, Torsten and Guido Tabellini. Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262661317 (referred to as PT). Besides the problems from PT, some problem sets also include corrections or revisions of PT problems or additional problems.
Assignment files.
| ASSN # |
PROBLEM SETS |
PT PROBLEMS |
ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS |
| 1 |
Problem set 1 (PDF) |
Chapter 2, #1-4 |
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| 2 |
Problem set 2 (PDF) |
Chapter 3, #3-4
Chapter 6, #1
Chapter 14, #5
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| 3 |
Problem set 3 (PDF) |
Chapter 5, #4 |
Problems 3.A (PDF) and 3.B (PDF) |
| 4 |
Problem set 4 (PDF) |
Chapter 4, #2
Chapter 16, #1
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Problem 4.A (PDF) |
| 5 |
Problem set 5 (PDF) |
Chapter 2, #5
Chapter 5, #3
Chapter 7, #2-4
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