Econ
8803: Public Economics, First Mini, Spring 2012
Weds
Jan 18th Notes on Ramsey taxation.
See also “Taxing Capital Income: A Bad Idea” by Atkeson, Chari, and Kehoe, FRB Minneapolis QR,
1999
Mon
Jan 23rd Notes on Ramsey taxation in an OG economy
See also “Optimal Taxation in Life-Cycle
Economies” by Erosa and Gervais,
JET
2002, and
Weds
Jan 25th “Redistributive
Taxation in a Simple Perfect Foresight Model” by Judd, JPubE 1985
“Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea
After All!” by Conesa, Kitao, and Krueger, AER March
2009
“On the Distributional Effects
of Reducing Capital Taxes” by Domeij and Heathcote, IER 2005
Mon
Jan 30th “Tax
Policy Announcement in a Heterogeneous Agents Model” by Dyrda and Pedroni, 2012
“Constrained
Efficiency in the Neoclassical Growth Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic
Shocks” by Davila,
Hong, Krusell and Rios-Rull
Weds
Feb 1st “Optimal
Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey” by Heathcote and Tsujiyama, 2012
Mon
Feb 6th “The
Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes” by Weinzierl,
REStud 2011 See also technical appendix
Weds
Feb 8th “Insurance
and Taxation Over the Life Cycle” by Farhi and Werning, 2011
“Redistributive
Taxation in a Partial Insurance Economy” by Heathcote, Storesletten and Violante, 2010
Mon
Feb 13th “Social
Security Reform with Heterogeneous Agents” by Conesa
and Krueger, RED 1999
Weds
Feb 15th “Pareto-Improving
Social Security when Financial Markets are Incomplete” by Krueger and Kubler, AER
2006
Mon
Feb 19th Victor
Rios-Rull on time-consistent policy
Mon
Feb 26th “Rotten
Parents and Disciplined Children” by Song, Storesletten and Zilibotti
Weds
Feb 28th “A Model of
the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments” by Kaplan and Violante
See also “Fiscal
Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Incomplete Markets” by Heathcote,
REStud
2005