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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Excess Burden<br />

Deadweight burden: change in consumer surplus less tax paid<br />

Equals what is lost in excess of taxes paid<br />

Two measures, corresponding to EV and CV :<br />

EB(u 1 ) = EV − (q 1 − q 0 )h(q 1 , u 1 ) [Mohring 1971]<br />

EB(u 0 ) = CV − (q 1 − q 0 )h(q 1 , u 0 ) [Diamond and McFadden 1974]<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 3: Effi ciency 39 / 105

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