Calendar

LEC # TOPICS
1 Field Overview
Median Voter
2 Rejecting Median Voter
Political Economy
3 Political Economy Applications
4 Welfare Comparisons, Demand Estimation
5 Introduction to Optimal Income Tax, Tagging
6 Optimal Income Tax
7 Introduction to U.S. Tax Rules
Male L.S.
8 Taxes and Male Labor Supply
9 Taxes and Female Labor Supply
10 Taxes and Female Labor Supply (continued)
11 Elasticity of Taxable Income
12 EITC and Negative Income Tax
13 Optimal Commodity Taxation
14 Demand Estimation and Optimal Commodity Taxation
Pigouvian Taxes
15 Prices vs. Quantities
Valuing Environmental Externalities
16 Saving, Wealth, and Taxes: Overview
17 Income vs. Consumption Taxation
18 IRAs and 401(k)s
19 Capital Gains Taxation
20 Taxes and Investment: Cost of Capital
21 Taxes and Investment: Q Models and Liquidity
22 Taxation and Finance: Overview
23 Taxes and Financial Policy (Debt Policy)
24 Taxes and Financial Policy (Dividends)
25 Incidence: Harberger Model
26 Asset Price Incidence