14.770 Collective Choice Pol Economy
Fall 2015
Instructors: Abhijit Banerjee, Alexander Greenberg Wolitzky
TA: Chishio Furukawa
Lecture: TR10.30-12 (E17-129)
Announcements
Recitation 11 on course review
Tomorrow recitation will review the course material, including some questions from the problem set that people had difficulty with. If you have questions you would like me to cover, please send them to me by this evening.
As usual, it will be at Room 66-160 at 11am. See you then!
Best regards,
Chishio
Announced on 03 December 2015 4:49 p.m. by Chishio Furukawa
Recitation 10, Problem Set 4, and Movie & Pizza on Monday 23rd
Dear class,Thank you to all for responding to the poll. There are three
announcements:
1. In tomorrow's recitation, I will cover some questions from
the problem set.
2. The last problem set, Problem Set 4, is now posted. It will be
due on December 3rd, Thursday.
3. Following the poll, we will hold the movie screening with pizza
at 7pm on Monday, 23rd, at E17-217. Please expect it to be until
around 8:30pm. It is on the second floor of the building we usually
have classes in. Please call me at 617-767-1209, if you cannot find
the room/ get into the building when you arrive.
Best regards,
Chishio
Announced on 19 November 2015 5:11 p.m. by Chishio Furukawa
Abhijit's Movie and Pizza on November 23rd, next Monday
Let's have an early thanksgiving gathering to watch Abhijit's movie on the village politics in India! Abhijit suggested next Monday, 23rd. I am sorry for this short notice, but could you please fill in the doodle to notify what time you can make it?
http://doodle.com/poll/x7k6qn8ed69pzq4i
I would appreciate you to fill in even if you cannot make it so that we know how many people can come.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Chishio
Announced on 17 November 2015 10:47 p.m. by Chishio Furukawa
Clarifications on Problem Set 3
I wanted to make two clarifications on the problem set.
1) for Question 1.3, we also need to assume y_m(L,\tau^m)>y_m(O,\tau^r) to prevent cycles.
2) for Question 3, please set phi=1 for simplification. I am sorry that I did not realize this, but otherwise the algebra becomes a bit untractable..
I also added some materials to learn the concepts on dynamic games in political economy (put under "Recitation" folder in Stellar.) I hope this can be helpful.
Best regards,
Chishio
Announced on 17 November 2015 6:10 p.m. by Chishio Furukawa
Recitation 9 on Optimal Non-linear Taxation
Tomorrow, the recitation will go over the overview of optimal non-linear taxation that Alex talked about in class. We will walk through (i) Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem and (ii) some simplified version of the Mirrlees model to see how the incentive compatibility constraint works, and how it captures the efficiency-equity trade-off.
See you then!As usual, it will be at Room 66-160 at 11am.
Best regards,
Chishio
Announced on 12 November 2015 3:22 p.m. by Chishio Furukawa
