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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Chetty et al.: Empirical Framework<br />

Economy with two goods, x and y<br />

Prices: Normalize the price of y to 1 and let p denote the (fixed)<br />

pretax price of x.<br />

Taxes: y untaxed, x subject to an ad valorem sales tax τ (not<br />

included in posted price)<br />

Tax-inclusive price of x is q = p(1 + τ).<br />

Let demand for good x be denoted by x(p, τ)<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 2: Tax Incidence 20 / 142

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