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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Capitalization and the Asset Price Approach<br />

Asset prices can be used to infer incidence in dynamic models<br />

(Summers 1983)<br />

Study effect of tax changes on asset prices<br />

Asset prices adjust immediately in effi cient markets, incorporating the<br />

full present-value of subsequent changes<br />

Effi cient asset markets incorporate all effects on factor costs, output<br />

prices, etc.<br />

Limitation: can only be used to characterize incidence of policies on<br />

capital owners<br />

There are no markets for individuals<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 2: Tax Incidence 107 / 142

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