Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, ...

The lectures feature a different leading economist each year, and range widely across an array of subdisciplines in economics. It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how ...

Beginning a series of 11 Monday lectures on Economic Reconstruction sponsored by the Graduate School of Public Administration last night in the third floor lounge of Littauer Center, Professor ...

The two-part lecture focused on the economics of structural change and applications to East Asia and the Pacific. The lectures also discussed challenges to economic growth, including premature ...

Austerity—a set of economic policies governments implement to control public sector debt—has ... demanding innovative approaches within financial and regulatory limits. This lecture series delves into ...