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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Diamond and Mirrlees (1971)<br />

Previous analysis assumed fixed producer prices<br />

Diamond and Mirrlees (1971) relax this assumption by modelling<br />

production<br />

Two major results<br />

1 Production effi ciency: even in an economy where first-best is<br />

unattainable, optimal policy maintains production effi ciency<br />

2 Characterize optimal tax rates with endogenous prices and show that<br />

Ramsey rule can be applied<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 4: Optimal Taxation 27 / 121

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