This is the third part of the graduate public finance sequence.

• Overview material
  • 1a. Overview of public finance
  • 1b. Applied Economics Tools
• Spatial Public Finance
  • 2. Overview of spatial public finance & the Rosen Roback model
  • 3a. Place-based policies: theory
  • 3b. Place-based policies: evidence
  • 4. Sorting, Fiscal federalism
• Capital Taxation
  • 5a. Capital taxation: overview, facts, and theory
  • 5b. The distribution and taxation of wealth
  • 6. Business tax policy and firm location
• Tax policy, investment, and innovation
  • 7. Investment and corporate financial policy
  • 8. Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Top earners

Assignments (subject to change):

• Response to Albouy (2009) due before lecture 2
• Problem Set on spatial taxation due before lecture 3
• Response to Bayer, Ferreira, and McMillan (2007) before lecture 4
• Response to Jakobsen Jakobsen Kleven, Zucman (2020) before lecture 5
• Problem Set on Wealth Tax before lecture 6
• Problem Set on Million Dollar Plants due before lecture 7
• Problem Set on Base versus Rates before lecture 8