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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Open Economy Application<br />

Key assumption in Harberger model: both labor and capital perfectly<br />

mobile across sectors<br />

Now apply framework to analyze capital taxation in open economies,<br />

where capital is more likely to be mobile than labor<br />

See Kotlikoff and Summers section 3.1 for a good exposition<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 2: Tax Incidence 98 / 142

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