Econ 2600

Lectures: Thursdays 11am - 1pm, Fridays 11am - 12pm when needed.

Office Hours: Michael Smart, M11-12 or by appointment, 150 St. George St., Room 268

Download the Course Syllabus -- and read this page of preliminary advice

Announcements:

• You should try to solve the practice problems on your own, or together with other students. Once you have worked through PS#1, you can download my solutions.

• For more on the term papers, see this page of preliminary advice

• The first graded problem set is to be completed in Week 6 (after the break). You will have 24 hours to complete it.

• Here is a sample final exam

Schedule

Week 2

Lecture:

• Elasticity of taxable income

Additional Material:

• *Auerbach and Hines, 2002, sec 1-2

• *Feldstein, 1995

• Saez, Slemrod and Giertz, 2012

(* means you should read the paper BEFORE class)

Week 4

Lecture:

• Catch-up class

Week 5

Lecture:

• Income taxation

Additional Material:

• *Diamond and Saez (JEP, 2011)

• Saez (2001)

• Practice problems #3

Week 8

Lecture:

• Savings and wealth

Additional Material:

• *Bernheim, 2002

• Chari and Kehoe, 1999

• Straub and Werning, 2014

Week 10

Lecture:

• International taxation

Additional Material:

• *Gordon and Hines, 2002

• Mintz and Smart (JPubE, 2004)

• Hong and Smart (EER, 2010)

• Keen and Konrad, 2013

• *Suarez Serrato, 2018

• Torslov, Weir, and Zucman, 2018

Week 11

Student presentations

• Note these will be scheduled throughout the term as appropriate, including in the occasional Friday meetings - be sure to check the final schedule!

Week 12

Final exam (in class)

• Details to follow