The aim of this course is to analyse the main reasons why the State should have an economic role, both from a normative and a positive point of view. The main topics covered by the course are the fundamentals of welfare economics, market failures, public goods, externalities, fiscal policies, welfare state, and the tools to evaluate public projects of investments, both from an economic and a social point of view.
Balestrino A., Galli E., Spataro (2015), Scienza delle finanze, UTET and the slides available on e-learning.
Learning Objectives
Acquired competencies at the end of the course. To be able to read and to interpret texts on public economics. To be able to interpret real economic phenomena related to the public sector by using the most important theoretical public economics models. To be able to analyse economic phenomena referred to public policies both from a normative and a positive point of view.
Prerequisites
Students must have passed the exams on Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Type of Assessment
Written exam plus a not compulsory oral exam. For students in Law, the exam is oral.
Course program
Public Finance 9 CFU
Corso di Laurea triennale in Economia e commercio
All book and the slides available on e-learning.
Public Finance 6 CFU
Corso di Laurea triennale in Sviluppo economico, cooperazione internazionale e gestione dei conflitti
Corso di Laurea triennale in Statistica
Corsi di Laurea magistrali in Scienze aziendali
Part I: all chapters; Part II: all chapters; Part III: ch. 2; Part IV: all chapters except the paragraphs: IV.2.4, IV.3.5, IV.4.5, IV.5.4; Part V: ch. 1, ch. 2 (except paragraph V.2.3), ch. 3 (except paragraphs V.3.3, V.3.4 and the appendix); and the corresponding slides available on e-learning.
Corso di laurea triennale in Scienze dei servizi giuridici e Corso di Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Giurisprudenza
Part I: all chapters (except paragraphs with star and the appendices); Part II: ch. 1; Part III: ch. 1; Part IV: all chapters; Part V: ch. 1, ch. 3 (except V.3.3, V.3.4 and the appendix), ch. 4, ch. 5 (except the appendices); Part VI: ch. 1 (except VI.1.4.3, VI.1.4.4), ch. 2, ch. 3; and the corresponding slides available on e-learning.