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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This is a course in industrial organization, the study of firms in markets. Industrial organization focuses on firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets, which appear to be far more common than the perfectly competitive markets that were the focus of your basic microeconomics course. This field analyzes the acquisition and use of mar
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- economics
- government
- market power
- strategy
- economics
- game theory
- monopoly
- oligopoly
- pricing
- spatial model
- public policy
- competitive markets
- firm behavior
- industrial organization
- imperfectly competitive markets
- firm acquisition
- government competition policy
- market power firms
- dynamic games
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Explores the role of government in the economy, applying tools of basic microeconomics to answer important policy questions such as government response to global warming, school choice by K-12 students, Social Security versus private retirement savings accounts, government versus private health insurance, setting income tax rates for indivi
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- economics
- social security
- insurance
- taxation
- welfare
- public education
- economics of public goods
- corporate taxation
- taxation and savings
- tax reform
- redistribution
- fiscal federalism
- political economy
- externalities
- health insurance
- disability insurance
- workers compensation
- public finance
- public policy
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This course explores the proper role of government in the regulation of the environment. It will help students develop the tools to estimate the costs and benefits of environmental regulations. These tools will be used to evaluate a series of current policy questions, including: Should air and water pollution regulations be tightened or loo
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- economics
- economics
- policy
- environment
- environmental economics
- public policy
- cost-benefit analysis
- resource management
- environmental regulation
- health
- sustainability
- public goods
- pollution
- pigouvian taxes
- liability
- kuznets curves
- competition
- growth
- double dividend
- hedonic
- valuation
- global warming
- porter hypothesis
- social choice
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Theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence, optimal tax theory, the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings, taxation and corporate behavior, and tax expenditure policy.
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- economics
- economic analysis
- taxation
- wealth
- financial policy
- income
- investment
- asset
- political economy
- labor
- capital
- public policy
- corporate finance
- tax reform
- optimal commodity taxes
- optimal corrective taxation
- optimal stochastic taxes
- dynamic consistency issues
- debt
- equity
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This course is an introduction to labor economics with an emphasis on applied microeconomic theory and empirical analysis. We are especially interested in the link between research and public policy. Topics to be covered include: labor supply and demand, taxes and transfers, minimum wages, immigration, human capital, education production, i
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- economics
- labor economics
- public policy
- applied microeconomics
- empirical analysis
- labor supply and demand
- taxes and transfers
- human capital
- minimum wages
- income distribution
- unions and strikes
- immigration
- incentives
- discrimination
- unemployment and unemployment insurance
- bargaining
- economics of the family
- decision to work
- home product
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The aim of this course is to acquaint students with traditional topics in labor economics and to encourage the development of independent research interests. We will cover a systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration,
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- economics
- labor economics
- public policy
- immigration
- human capital
- econometrics
- minimum wage
- public education
- job training
- labor
- unions
- neoclassical model
- life-cycle
- insurance
- unemployment
- signaling
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