PUBLIC ECONOMICS

SECS-P/03 - 9 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

ROMILDA RIZZO


Learning Objectives

Knowledge and understanding. To provide the analytical knowledge needed to understand the fundaments of public intervention and its effects on the allocation and distribution of resources.

Applying knowledge and understanding. To enable students to apply their knowledge on the economics of public sector to understand official documents and reports and to evaluate different models of public intervention.

Making judgments To train students to use data to be able to develop autonomous opinions and critical understanding on public intervention

Communication skills To enable students to use technical terminology, diagrams and tables to express their opinions to experts and non- experts. Oral and written communication skills will be also stimulated through classroom activities - such as discussion and seminars- and written examinations.

Learning skills. To stimulate learning skills through power point presentations and discussions to enable students to upgrading autonomously their knowledge and to prepare them for post-graduate courses.


Course Structure

Lectures with power point presentation, discussions in class, seminars and analysis of case studies. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.



Detailed Course Content

*Public intervention, normative and positive analysis. State functions. * Fundaments of welfare economics, market failure and reasons for public intervention. *Political Economy. *Cost-benefit analysis. * * *Income redistribution. *Tax incidence, taxation and efficiency; income taxation and its effects; corporate taxes; consumption taxes. *Welfare policies (social secuirty, healthcare ). *Public debt. *Fiscal federalism. *Local public finance.



Textbook Information

H. S. Rosen, T. Gayer. Public Finance. McGraw Hill, 10th Global Edition

Other publications may be made available to students during the course.




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