Public Economics

2021/2022

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Public Administration

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

2 year, 4 module

Instructor

Zaostrovtsev, Andrey P.

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course in Public Economics covers basic issues including a role of government in modern market economies, market failures and public goods, public choice, equity-efficiency trade-offs, taxation principles, public expenditure programmes, fiscal federalism. It combines theoretical models with empirical evidence. Objectives and instruments of public policies are demonstrated with examples of voting and rent-seeking, behavior of bureaucracy, models of taxation design, welfare state problems, including healthcare, pension systems and other social endowments.