Public Economics M2EA/Ph.d.

Part 1: Income Taxation, Labor supply responses to taxation and Provision of Public Goods

SUMMARY

In the first topic, we will investigate the optimal taxation of labor income when workers take their labor supply decisions along the intensive margin, the extensive margin and both margins simultaneously. In the second topic, we cover empirical studies of labor supply responses to taxation going historically from earlier to more recent papers. In the third topic, we study the provision of public goods, their role as a screening mechanism and global public goods.

By the end of this part of the course, students should have a good knowledge of the main (theoretical and empirical) results in optimal income taxation, studies of labor supply responses to taxes as well as about public goods and of their corresponding intuitions. They should be able to apply this knowledge to a broad range of policy issues. Finally, they should understand the structure of the academic literature on the topic, which should allow them to locate the research frontier on some important issues in public economics.

All materials for the class (slides, handouts, reference lists, forum, etc.) are available on ENT using your student account. Please log in at https://cours.u-cergy.fr/course/view.php?id=7880