The schedule reviews material that has been covered in previous classes and topics to be addressed in the upcoming lectures.
The schedule will be revised periodically.
Month |
Day |
|
Coverage |
|
January |
19 |
Tuesday |
Introduction and procedural details (Ch. 1) |
|
January |
21 |
Thursday |
Efficiency and market failure Public goods, Ch 3 (pp. 57-63) and externalities, Ch. 2. |
|
January |
26 |
Tuesday |
Class dismissed--Compensation for out-of-class exams |
|
January |
28 |
Thursday |
Conclude market failure-- Pigovian taxes, environmental taxes, cap and trade Shome, pp. 104-112, Nordhaus' Review of Stern Report |
|
February |
2 |
Tuesday |
Principles of taxation--Rosen & Gayer, Ch. 7. Shome, pp. 3-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-45, and 59-61. |
|
February |
4 |
Thursday |
Class dismissed--Compensation for out-of-class exams |
|
February |
9 |
Tuesday |
Principles of taxation continue |
|
February |
11 |
Thursday |
Conclude principles of taxation |
|
February |
12 |
Friday |
Make up class--4:00 pm, IGPA Conference Room, 1007 W. Nevada Introduction to income taxation--Rosen & Gayer, Ch. 8 HM, Ch. 15, Shome, pp. 50-54, 117-133. |
|
February |
16 |
Tuesday |
Income taxation continues Piketty and Saez, Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? Journal of Economic Perspective, Winter 2007; Mankiw, Weinzierl, and Yagan, Journal of Economic Perspective, Fall 2009 |
|
February |
18 |
Thursday |
Income taxation continues
|
|
February |
19 |
Friday |
Make up class--4:00 pm, IGPA Conference Room, 1007 W. Nevada Income taxation |
|
February |
23 |
Tuesday |
Class dismissed |
|
February |
25 |
Thursday |
Income taxation concludes S. Giertz, "The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Influences on Economic Efficiency and Tax Revenues, and Implications for Tax Policy," in Tax Policy Lessons from the 2000s. |
|
March |
2 |
Tuesday |
Business and corporate taxation--Rosen & Gayer, Ch. 8. Shome, pp. 134-148, 149-168, 181-184. Bird, Why Tax Corporations? |
|
March |
4 |
Thursday |
Business and corporate taxation concludes |
|
March |
5 |
Friday |
Make up class--First Examination (4-6 pm)--(Material--Beginning of class through income taxation) Study questions The exam will be in the IGPA conference room, 1007 W. Nevada |
|
March |
9 |
Tuesday |
Consumption taxation--Rosen & Gayer Ch. 9. HM. Ch. 14, Shome, pp. 71-74, 75-79, 80-81, 82-86, 86-99, and 169-176. |
|
March |
11 |
Thursday |
Class dismissed |
|
March |
16 |
Tuesday |
Consumption taxation continues (Exams returned) |
|
March |
18 |
Thursday |
Consumption taxation continues Hines, Taxing Consumption and Other Sins, Journal of Economic Perspective, Winter 2007 Graetz, Tax Reform Unraveling, Journal of Economic Perspective, Winter 2007 |
| March | 19 |
Friday |
Consumption taxation continues. The class will be in DKH at 4:30 pm. |
|
March |
23 |
Tuesday |
Spring vacation--no class |
|
March |
25 |
Thursday |
Spring vacation--no class |
|
March |
30 |
Tuesday |
Tax reform issues relation to consumption and income taxation; Begin wealth taxation |
|
April |
1 |
Thursday |
Wealth taxation; Rosen & Gayer, 219-221. Shome, pp. 188-191; Fiscal Federalism, Rosen & Gayer, pp.251-260, Shome, 247-253; Property taxation, Rosen & Gayer, 260-267, Shome, pp 185-187. |
|
April |
2 |
Friday |
Make up class--4:00 pm, IGPA Conference Room, 1007 W. Nevada. Property taxes and tax competition. Zodrow, Who Pays the Property Tax? |
|
April |
6 |
Tuesday |
Tax evasion. Slemrod, Cheating Ourselves: The Economics of Tax Evasion, Journal of Economic Perspective, Winter 2007 |
|
April |
8 |
Thursday |
Tax administration and tax evasion. Slemrod, Cheating Ourselves: The Economics of Tax Evasion, Journal of Economic Perspective, Winter 2007 |
|
April |
9 |
Friday |
Make up class--4:00 pm, IGPA Conference Room, 1007 W. Nevada Illinois Tax Issues |
|
April |
13 |
Tuesday |
Class dismissed |
|
April |
15 |
Thursday |
Second Examination --(Material--Corporate and business taxation to tax evasion) Study questions The exam will be in the regular classroom--215 DKH |
|
April |
20 |
Tuesday |
Taxes on financial transactions, import and export duties. Shome, 199-215. Tobin taxes. |
|
April |
22 |
Thursday |
No class--class on Friday |
|
April |
23 |
Friday |
Project presentations and discussion 4:00 pm, IGPA Conference Room, 1007 W. Nevada |
|
April |
27 |
Tuesday |
No class--class on Friday |
|
April |
29 |
Thursday |
Project presentations and discussion |
|
April |
30 |
Friday |
Project presentations and discussion 4:00 pm, IGPA Conference Room, 1007 W. Nevada |
|
May |
4 |
Tuesday |
Project presentations and discussion--Discussion of Final Exam |
|
May |
10 |
Monday |
FINAL EXAMINATION: The final examination (9�11:30 AM, Monday, May 10 in the regular classroom) will be two hours in length. |