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Èconomie et gestion des entreprises (Academic Year 2023/2024) - Business management

Public economics


CFU: 9
Langue du contenu:Anglais
Description du cours

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.

Connaissances requises
-A good knowledge of theoretical fundamentals of both microeconomics and macroeonomics is required
Objectifs

-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

Programme
-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
Textes
Gruber, J. Public Finance and Public Policy, Macmillan, fifth edition 201
Entraînements
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Professeur/Tuteur responsable enseignement
Antonio Di Majo
Liste des leçons
Elina De Simone
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