Public Economics I

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SES #	TOPICS
PART I
Introduction to Tax Analysis
1	The Efficiency Costs of Taxation
2	General Equilibrium Tax Incidence
Taxation and Labor Supply—Empirical Work
3	Married Men
4	Taxation and the Labor Supply of Married Women
5	The Earned Income Tax Credit: Taxes and Labor Supply at Low Incomes
6	Tax Rates and Taxable Income
7	Tax Expenditures
Empirical Aspects of Taxing Capital Income
8	Capital Income, Wealth, and Saving Behavior: Stylized Facts and Model Formulation
9	Tax Policy, Rates of Return, and Saving
10	Tax Reform: Income Taxes vs. Consumption Taxes
11	Targeted Tax Subsidies to Saving
Taxation and Firm Behavior
12	Taxation of Corporate Capital: Investment Incentives
13	Taxation and Financial Policy: Debt vs. Equity
14	Taxation and Financial Policy: Payout Policy
PART II
Optimal Commodity Taxation
15	Optimal Commodity Taxes: Ramsey and Beyond
16	Optimal Corrective Taxation
17	Optimal Dynamic Taxes: Intertemporal Ramsey Problem
18	Taxation of Labor Income—Theory
19	The Taxation of Capital Income and New Dynamic Public Finance
20	Dynamic Taxation of Labor Income and Insurance
21	Taxation of Intergenerational Transfers (Estate Taxation)