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Economia e gestione delle imprese (Anno Accademico 2015/2016) - Business management

Public economics


CFU: 9
Lingua contenuti:Inglese
Descrizione dell'insegnamento

The course of Public Economics aims to provide students the theory and practice of regulation, competetition, with a focus on antitrust issues. The students will have the understanding of the market failures (in particular public goods and the problems of the commons) and the governmental failures, the main antitrust issues such as imperfect competitions, collusive behaviours, asymmetric information, anti-competitive conducts. Some of the most famous Europen and Extra-European antitrust cases will be analysed.

Prerequisiti
-A good knowledge of theoretical fundamentals of both microeconomics and macroeonomics is required
Scopi

-At the end of the course, students should be able to analyse the relationship and interaction between State and market in all the most important spheres of the public intervention with a particular attention to the solutions of the market failures and the effect of taxation on economic behaviours

Contenuti
-1) Introduction to the study of Public Economics
Recorded lesson: 1
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapters 1.1 and 1.2 and
9.4
2) Equilibrium and social welfare
Recorded lesson: 2
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapter 2
Course Syllabus
Course: Public Economics
Appointed Professor: Prof. Antonio Di Majo
Tutor: Dr. Lorenzo Dorato
Degree: Economics
Course: Public Economics
3) State budget and budgetary institutions
Recorded lesson: 3
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapter 4
4) Natural monopoly
Recorded lesson: 4
Train, K. Optimal Regulation, Introduction: The Economic Rationale and Task of Regulation, MIT
Press, 1991. Downloadable online at http://eml.berkeley.edu/books/regulation.html
5) Externalities
Recorded lessons: 5 and 6
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapters 5 and 6
6) Public goods
Recorded lessons: 7 and 8
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapter 7
7) Fiscal decentralisation
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapter 10
Recorded lesson: 9
8) Introduction to the economics of welfare state
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapters 1.2; 1.3; 17.1,
17.2
Recorded lesson: 10
1) Taxation: general definitions
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapter 18
Recorded lessons 1
2) Economic impacts: tax incidence
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapter 19
Recorded lessons 2, 3, 4
3) Economic impacts: Tax inefficiencies
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapter 20
Recorded lessons 5,6,7
4) Taxing labour supply
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapter 21
Recorded lesson: 8,9
5\) Taxes and savings.
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 2016, chapter 22
Recorded lesson: 10
Testi
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 201
Esercitazioni
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Docente/Tutor Responsabile insegnamento
Antonio Di Majo
Elenco delle lezioni
Elina De Simone
Elina De Simone
Elina De Simone
Elina De Simone
Elina De Simone
Elina De Simone
Elina De Simone
Elina De Simone
Elina De Simone
Elina De Simone
Maria Grazia Pazienza
Maria Grazia Pazienza
Maria Grazia Pazienza
Maria Grazia Pazienza
Maria Grazia Pazienza
Maria Grazia Pazienza
Maria Grazia Pazienza
Maria Grazia Pazienza
Maria Grazia Pazienza
Maria Grazia Pazienza