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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesCoursera

    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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