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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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CGE Models: General Structure<br />

N intermediate production sectors<br />

M final consumption goods<br />

J groups of consumers who consume products and supply labor<br />

Each industry has different substitution elasticities for capital and<br />

labor<br />

Each consumer group has Cobb-Douglas utility over M consumption<br />

goods with different parameters<br />

Specify all these parameters (calibrated to match some elasticities)<br />

and then simulate effects of tax changes<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 2: Tax Incidence 96 / 142

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