Teaching

Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

Instructor, Public Economics, M.S.Q.E. program (Spring 2024, 2025)

Course Outline

Slides

Introductory Lecture

Partial Equilibrium Incidence

Derivation of General Equilibrium Incidence

Welfare effects of fuel taxes

Consumer Demand Systems

Distributional effects of fuel taxes

Second-best policy

Lecture Notes

Tax incidence, consumer theory and welfare

Assignments

Group Policy Exercise

Readings

Kotlikoff and Summers (1987) Tax Incidence.

Auerbach (1985). The theory of excess burden and optimal taxation.