ECON 7390 - Public Finance: Advanced Topics

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: completion of economics graduate core.

Staff.

Exposes graduate students to current research questions and methods. Focuses on going over the details of a smaller number of papers, understanding them at several different levels. Topics vary, including optimal taxation, macroeconomic aspects of social insurance design, applications of contract theory and mechanism design to efficient risk sharing.