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Mirrlees: Subsequent Work<br />

Mirrlees model had a profound impact on information economics<br />

Ex. models with asymmetric information in contract theory<br />

But until late 1990s, Mhad little impact on practical tax policy<br />

Recently, Mirrlees model connected to empirical literature<br />

Diamond (1998), Piketty (1997), and Saez (2001)<br />

Suffi cient statistic formulas in terms of labor supply elasticities instead<br />

of primitives<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 4: Optimal Taxation 58 / 121

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