Unit PUBLIC ECONOMICS
- Course
- Law
- Study-unit Code
- 05A13009
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Cristiano Perugini
- Teachers
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- Cristiano Perugini
- Hours
- 54 ore - Cristiano Perugini
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2016
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Economico e pubblicistico
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/03
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Basic principles of the Government intervention in modern market economies. Market failures. Markets regulation. Inequalities and redistribution.
- Reference texts
- Rosen H.S., Gayer T., Public Finance, McGraw-Hill, 2018 (fifth Italian edition)
Slides and papers provided by the instructor - Educational objectives
- Illustrate the main properties of the role of the Public Sector in the economy (motivations, aims, methods, and limitations) according to both a normative and a positive perspective, in order to understand and critically evaluate the long-run and short-run problems of the economy.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of basic concepts and tools of political economy
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Other information
- n.d.
- Learning verification modality
- Written exams
- Extended program
- The role and view of the State; fundamental analytical tools in public finance analysis.
Market failures and imperfections: public goods, externalities and collective decision-making.
Markets regulation.
The theory of taxation: efficiency and distribution issues. Personal income taxes and individual behavior.