PAI735/ECN635 – Lecture Notes/Class slides, Spring 2019

Lecture 1  – Introduction and Overview

Lecture 2  – The Demand for Local Public Services

Lecture 3  – Voting

Lecture 4  – Public Sector Costs: Concepts

Lecture 5  – Public Sector Costs: Policy

Lecture 6  – State and Local Revenue: Overview

Lecture 7  – Property Tax Capitalization

Lecture 8  – Property Tax Incidence

Lecture 9  – State and Local Sales and Income Taxes

Lecture 10 – Revenue from Government Monopoly

Lecture 11 – User Fees (=Public Prices)

Lecture 12 – State and Local Public Infrastructure

Lecture 13 – Bond Markets

Lecture 14 – Issuing Bonds

Lecture 15 – Economic Development Concepts

Lecture 16 – Economic Development Policy

Lecture 17 – Introduction to Intergovernmental Relations

Lecture 18 – State Education Aid Formulas

Lecture 19 – State Policies Related to Education Aid