PUBLIC ECONOMICS
cod. 00891

Academic year 2012/13
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Scienza delle finanze (SECS-P/03)
Field
Economico
Type of training activity
Characterising
63 hours
of face-to-face activities
9 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in - - -

Learning objectives

The course supplies students with theoretical models for the analysis of targets, tools and functioning of Public Finance.

Prerequisites

none

Course unit content

Welfare economics; macro-models for the analysis of fiscal policy; Italian public expence on Welfare.

Full programme

1) Reasons for public intervention in the economy;
2) Public finance in Italy;
3) Macro-models for the analysis of fiscal policy in both closed and open economies;
4) Public finance in Italy and in the EMU;
5)Inequality, poverty and public policies;
6) Italian public expence on Welfare: Assistence, Pensions and Education.

Bibliography

Bosi, Paolo (ed.), Corso di scienza delle Finanze, Il Mulino, 2012

Teaching methods

frontal teaching

Assessment methods and criteria

final written exam

Other information

none