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Introduction to Course |
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| 2 |
Justifications for Public Finance: Public Goods and Externalities |
Student Presentation: Externalities |
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Ethical Frameworks |
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| 4 |
Justifications for Public Finance: Economic Development |
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The Fiscal Gap: Fiscal Health and Analysis |
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The Fiscal Gap: Revenues and Expenditures
Budget Deficits and Inflation |
Problem set 1 due one day after session 6 |
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Public Finance Theory: Efficiency - Optimal Taxation, Optimal User Fees |
Student Presentation: Efficiency |
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Efficiency (cont.) |
Student Presentation: Incidence |
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Public Finance Theory: Equity, Incidence in the General Equilibrium Model |
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| 10 |
Incidence (cont.) |
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Property Taxation in Developing Countries |
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| 12 |
Guest Lecture on Property Tax
Guest Speaker: Yu-Hung Hong
Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Topic: Current Property Tax Reforms in China |
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| 13 |
Property Tax (cont.) |
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| 14 |
Tax Reform |
Student Presentation: Tax Reform
Problem set 2 due one day before session 14 |
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User Fees in Developing Countries |
Student Presentation: User Fees |
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Intergovernmental Transfers |
Student Presentation: Transfers |
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Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization |
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| 18 |
Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization (cont.) |
Student Presentation: The Chilean Case
Problem set 3 due one day after session 18 |
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Source of Finance: Private Sector Participation |
Student Presentation: Private Sector |
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Private Sector (cont.) |
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Case Study of Private Sector Participation |
Problem set 4 due one day before session 21 |
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Source of Finance: International Lending Agencies: Programming Assistance, Conditionalities, Debt, Inflation, Structural Adjustment |
Student Presentation: International Lending |
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International Lending (cont.) |
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| 24 |
MicroFinance History and Design |
Student Presentation: MicroFinance |
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MicroFinance Case |
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Final Exam |
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