ECON 5310 - Public Finance II

3 credit hours

(Same as FIN 5310.) Prerequisites: ECON 2410 and 2420. Current issues in taxation, theory of income taxation, consumption taxes, property and wealth taxes. Advanced treatment of tax incidence, tax efficiency, income distribution, fiscal federalism, and state and local budget issues. Students are required to complete a term project resulting in a paper available for peer review and a class presentation.

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