David Bevan

University Lecturer in Economics

College or Institution: St John’s College

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Research Interests

Summary: Public economics: macroeconomic policy in developing countries.

Exploring how the shape of optimal tax-transfer schedules varies under different (and more realistic than usual in this literature) assumptions about government objectives, public expenditures, the production technology, the skill distribution, and the relation between pay and productivity.

Courses Taught at the University

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M.Phil. - Public Economics

Research Group(s)

Microeconomic Theory
Development Economics

Recent Working Papers

Aid and the Supply Side: Public Investment, Export Performance and Dutch Disease in Low Income Countries (2004)
Optimum Income Taxation when Earnings are Imperfectly Correlated with Productivity (2002)
Fiscal Deficits and Growth in Developing Countries (2002)
Exchange Rate Regimes and Revenue Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (2000)
Fiscal aspects of the transition from war to peace (1993)
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