Class slides for PAI 812 – Ph.D. Seminar, Public Finance (Spring 2019)

Lecture Notes  (To be updated before each class)

Lecture 1   – The Property Tax

Lecture 2   – Public Production Functions

Lecture 2   – Program Evaluation

Lecture 4   –  Cost Functions

Lecture 5   – Cost Indexes and Pupil Weights

Lecture 6   – School District Consolidation

Lecture 7   – Demand for Public Services: The Median Voter and Other Approaches

Lecture  8  – State Aid

Lecture 9 – Property Tax Exemptions

Lecture 10  – Bidding and Sorting

Lecture 11 – Property Tax Capitalization

Lecture 12 – Hedonics

Lecture 13 – School Quality Capitalization

Lecture 14 – Property Tax Incidence

Lecture 15  – Sales Taxes

Lecture 16 – Income Taxes

Lecture 17 – Tax Competition

Lecture 18 – Tax Rates and Economic Development

Lecture 19 – Tax Breaks and Economic Development

Lecture 20 – Infrastructure

Lecture 21 – Bond Markets

Lecture 22 – Flypaper Effect