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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2012 |
| Angebotsmuster | Jedes Frühjahrsem. |
| Dozierende | Beat Hintermann (b.hintermann@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Summary: Public finance, public economics or public sector economics are interchangeable terms to describe the subfield of economics that analyzes the role of government in a market economy. Government intervention is generally justified by market failure due to five broadly defined reasons: Externalities, nonexclusive public goods, decreasing cost production, asymmetric information and distributional concerns. The course focuses on normative public economic theory, using select applications to provide intuition. Using a general equilibrium approach, we will start with optimal government expenditure in a first-best world in order develop an understanding of the main sources of market failure as well as the optimal policy responses to address them. In the second part we will consider optimal taxation and expenditure in a more realistic, second-best setting where a tradeoff exists between efficiency and distributional equity, and revisit some of the first-best policy prescriptions. |
| Lernziele | Learning Goals: The aim of the course is to provide an understanding of the limits of competitive markets to maximize efficiency, as well as the possibilities and limits of government policy to correct for the most important market failures in the quest to maximize overall welfare. |
| Literatur | Reading list: Main textbook: Tresch Richard: "Public finance : a normative theory", 2nd ed., 2002. Additional sources: Kaplow, Louis: "The theory of taxation and public economics", 2008; Auerbach, J. and Feldstein, M. (eds), "Handbook of public economics", Vols. 1-4 (available online), and select journal articles. |
| Weblink | Weblink |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Prerequisites: completed Bachelor in Business and Economics, Completion of a bachelor-lecture in the area of public finance. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Registration: Please enrol in MOnA. EUCOR-Students and Exchange-Students have to enrol at the students administration office (studsek@unibas.ch) within the official enrolment period. Enrolment = Registration for the exam! |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| HörerInnen willkommen |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Kernbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften für Fortgeschrittene (Master Sustainable Development) Vertiefungsmodul Markets and Public Policy (Master Wirtschaftswissenschaften) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Semesterendprüfung |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Written exam: 08.06.2012, 10:00 -12:00. WWZ Audi: A-Z. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmeldung: Belegen |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | 1-6 0,1 |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ, studiendekanat-wwz@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Abteilung Wirtschaft und Politik |