Bachelor
2021/2022
Public Economics
Type:
Compulsory course (Public Policy and Analytics)
Area of studies:
Public Administration
Delivered by:
Department of Public Administration
When:
2 year, 4 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Online hours:
10
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Andrey Pavlovich Zaostrovtsev
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
36
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.