Ec2450A Materials
Section Materials for Economics 2450A: Public Economics and Fiscal Policy I
These are the section slides I wrote as a teaching fellow for Harvard’s Economics 2450A, the first half of Harvard’s two-semester graduate public economics sequence, in Fall 2022. This course was taught by Stefanie Stantcheva, and notably is focused heavily on optimal tax theory.
These section slides closely follow along with Stefanie Stantcheva’s lecture slides, which she has kindly posted online here.
| Week | Slides | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| - | Math and Microeconomics Review Notes | |
| 1 | Microeconomics Review | |
| 2 | Optimal Income Taxation I | |
| 3 | Optimal Income Taxation II | |
| 4 | Optimal Income Taxation III | |
| 5 | Commodity Taxation, Optimal Transfers | |
| 6 | Optimal Taxes/Transfers and Extensive Margins | |
| 7 | Estimating Taxable Income Elasticities | |
| 8 | Tax Avoidance and Evasion | |
| 9 | Generalized Social Welfare Weights | |
| 10 | Generalized Social Welfare Weights (Applications) | |
| 11 | New Dynamic Public Finance |
These section slides were based on teaching materials handed down by past EC2450A teaching fellows, including Benny Goldman and Anthony Yu. All errors are my own - let me know if you find any!