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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Course promo
  • Introduction
  • 1.1  Social Efficiency: Consumer/Producer Surplus
  • 1.2 The Excess Burden of Taxation: Administrative and Compliance Costs, Evasion and Planning
  • 1.3 Excess Burden: The Change in Relative Prices
  • 1.4  Measuring the Excess Burden of Tax: Focusing on Consumer Surplus
  • 1.5 Measuring the Excess Burden of Tax: Focusing on Producer Surplus
  • 1.6 Measuring the Excess Burden of Tax: Consumer and Producer Surplus
Readings
  • Before we begin
  • Recommended Books
  • Recommended Reading - Week 1
Practice Exercise
  • week 1

Videos
  • 2.1 The Law Cannot Determine Who Will Bear the Tax Burden
  • 2.2  Examples of Specific Taxes and Subsidies and their Unintuitive Burden
  • 2.3 What Determines the Tax Incidence?
  • 2.4 Elasticityof Capital Supply Assuming full Mobility Across Borders
  • 2.5 Who Bears the Burden of Corporate Tax: Shareholders ?
  • 2.6 Who Bears the Burden of Corporate Tax: Employees? Consumers? All Capital Owners?
Readings
  • Recommended Reading - Week 2
Practice Exercise
  • week 2

Videos
  • 3.1 How Does the Government Redistribute Income?
  • 3.2 Redistributing Income Using Increasing Marginal Tax Rates
  • 3.3 Achieving Progressivity Through Tax System without Increasing Marginal Tax Rates
  • 3.4 Achieving Progressivity with a Deduction
  • 3.5 Achieving Progressivity with a Grant (or Public Good)
Readings
  • Recommended Reading - Week 3
Practice Exercise
  • week 3

Videos
  • 4.1 An Integrated View of the Tax and Transfer (welfare) Systems
  • 4.2 Low Income Levels are Often Subject to Very High Marginal Tax Rates
  • 4.3 An Interview with prof. Dan Shaviro
  • 4.4 Taxing Ability, Not Income: “Tagging” and Transfers In-Kind
  • 4.5 Taxing Ability, Not Income: Welfare Ordeals
  • 4.6 Designing an Optimal Tax and Transfer System: The Model's Intuition
  • 4.7 Understanding the Intuition of the Optimal Income Tax Model: No Government Intervention
Readings
  • Recommended Reading - week 4
Practice Exercise
  • week 4

Videos
  • 5.1 Designing an Optimal Tax and Transfer System: Flat Tax and a Grant 
  • 5.2 The Mirrlees Optimal Income Tax Model: Non-Linear Tax and a Grant
  • 5.3 Demonstrating Why a High Marginal Tax Rate at Low Income Level is Optimal
  • 5.4 High Marginal Tax Rates at High Income Level: Patterns of Wealth Distribution, Elasticity, Tax Planning and International Tax Competition
  • 5.5 Richard Epstein Talking about the Risks Involved in Tax-Coerced Massive Redistribution
  • 5.6 Discussing Thomas Piketty’s Book “Capital in the 21st Century”: Taxation of Capital; High Inequality as a Threat to Democracy
  • Conclusion of Part II
Readings
  • Recommended Reading - Week 5
Practice Exercise
  • week 5
  • Final exam

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