2024/2025
Public Expenditures
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
Department of Applied Economics
When:
3 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course deals with the expenditure side of the public sector. It discusses economic rationales for government spending programmes, how government can intervene to correct market failures, equity-efficiency trade-offs, and limitations of public expenditure programmes. It combines analysis of economic models, empirical evidence, and case studies. A large part of the course focuses on government expenditures analysis in particular fields, such as health care, public pensions, employment programmes, education, and social welfare programmes.