# EC2450A Public Economics Semester: Fall | Year offered: 2016 The class meets Tuesdays 4-6:30 pm in M-16 in Littauer. The TA is Matteo Paradisi (). **[Course Syllabus](/file_url/125)** **Lecture Notes: (many lectures inspired by Emmanuel Saez' graduate PF course notes)** [Lecture 1: Introduction to Graduate Public Economics](/files/stantcheva/files/introduction.pdf) [Lecture 2: Optimal Income Taxation Part 1](/file_url/120) [Lecture 3: Optimal Income Taxation Part 2](/file_url/122) [Lecture 4: Labor Supply Responses to Taxation](/file_url/128) [Lecture 5: Taxable Income Elasticities](/file_url/132) [Lecture 6: Optimal Transfers](/file_url/134) [Lecture 7: Social Preferences](/file_url/136) [Lecture 8: Tax Enforcement](/file_url/141) [Lectures 9 and 10: Capital Taxation ](/file_url/144) [Lecture 11: New Dynamic Public Finance](/file_url/150) [Lecture 12: Social Security and Retirement](/file_url/157) **Section Material:** [Section 1: Labor Supply](/file_url/126) [Section 2: Introduction to Optimal Taxation](/file_url/127) [Section 3 and 4: Mirrlees Model and Pareto Efficient Taxation](/file_url/133) [Technical Note on Hamiltonians](/file_url/131) [Section 5: Income Effects and Bunching](/file_url/138) [Section 6: Optimal Transfers](/file_url/139) [Section 7: Optimal Top Income Taxation ](/file_url/142) [Section 8: Minimum Wage](/file_url/148) [Section 9: Capital Taxation and Tax Smoothing](/file_url/149) [Section 10: Education Policies and Capital Taxation ](/file_url/151)