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Syllabus of PUBLIC ECONOMICS (9 credits)
Academic year 2017-2018
Prof. Paolo M. Panteghini

Lecture Date Topic Additional information
Lecture 1 Public Finance: an introduction
Lecture 2 Main figures of EU and other OECD countries
Lecture 3 Public goods
Lecture 4 Externalities: public responses
Lecture 5 Externality: Pollution and environmental policies (1)
Lecture 6 Environmental policies (2)
Lecture 7 Education: public and/or merit good
Lecture 8 Cost-benefit analysis
Lecture 9 Health care: public vs. private intervention
Lecture 10 Income redistribution: basic issues
Lecture 11 In-kind transfers and vouchers
Lecture 12 Expenditure programs for poor people
Lecture 13 Taxation and income distribution
Lecture 14 Unit and ad valorem taxes
Lecture 15 Taxation and deadweight losses
Lecture 16 Tax incidence (1): basic cases
Lecture 17 Tax incidence (2): the effects of demand and supply elasticity
Lecture 18 Tax incidence in ad hoc markets (labour and capital)
Lecture 19 Taxation: efficiency and equity
Lecture 20 Personal income taxation and progressivity
Lecture 21 The EU countries and the progressivity of their tax systems: an overall analysis
Lecture 22 Students’ seminars Lecture 23 Students’ seminars Lecture 24 Students’ seminars