University of Alicante

Quantitative Economics Doctorate (Qed)

 

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Winter 2010

Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe

 

Syllabus

 

Slides

Taxation: Part I

Taxation: Part II

Taxation: Part III

Social insurance 

Public goods 

Social security 

Education

 

Problem sets

Problem set 1

Problem set 2 

Problem set 3 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

·      Anna Shaleva: “Raising Children to Work Hard: Altruism, Work Norms, and Social Insurance” by Lindbeck et al.

·      María José Aragón: “Green Markets and Private Provision of Public Goods”, by Kotchen, Journal of Political Economy, 2006

·      Mariya Melnychuk: “The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance” (1997) By J. Gruber

·      Alberto Basso: “Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing Economies,” by Chetty R. and A. Looney, Journal of Public Economics", 90: 2351-2356, 2006

·      Nathan Carroll: “An Economic Rationale for Public Education: The Value of Commitment,” by M. Gradstein, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2000

·      Danilo Leiva León: “The Effect of Taxes on Labor Supply in the Underground Economy,” by T. Lemieux, B. Fortin and P. Fréchette, The American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 1, 231-254, 1994

·      Xavier Del Pozo: “A review of experiments in public goods,” based on The handbook of experimental economics (Ch. 2)

·      Victor Hugo De Oliveira Silva: “Educational Expansion and Educational Inequality on Income Distribution,” Economics of Education Review 15, 1, 51-58, 1996

·      Maosen Zhao: “Why a funded system is useful and why it is not useful,” by H. W. Sinn, International Tax and Public Finance 7, 389-410, 2000

·      Serafima Chirkova: “Do Government Grants to Private Charities Crowd Out Giving or Fund-raising?” by J. Andreoni and A. Payne, AER, June 2003