Public Economics - JSM731

• Title: Public Economics
• Guaranteed by: Department of Public and Social Policy (23-KVSP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2024 to 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 8
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 30 / 30 (25)
• Min. number of students: 1
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Ing. et Ing. Eliška Vejchodská, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. Ing. et Ing. Eliška Vejchodská, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JEB025
• Is incompatible with: JEB025

Annotation

The course introduces students to the economics of the public sector. It provides the theoretical underpinnings for the interventions of the public sector into the economy including public expenditure analysis and taxation issues. It discusses the questions of when and how to intervene into the market and which effects do the interventions have. It familiarises students with public intervention practice within selected public policy areas and the research techniques taking place within public sector policy analysis.

Last update: Novotný Vilém, PhDr., Ph.D. (23.12.2023)

Aim of the course

By the end of the course, students will:

-          explain the purposes of the public sector interventions lying in efficiency and equity

-          identify possible approaches for testing the causal effects of public policy

-          understand theoretical tools of the assessment of public sector interventions

-          be acquainted with the practical applications of the public policy analysis

-          apply economic theory on real public policy problems

-          explain public finance perspective of public services provision

Last update: Vejchodská Eliška, doc. Ing. et Ing., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)

Literature

Compulsory literature

Only selected chapters covered by the lectures are compulsory literature sources:

Gruber, Jonathan. Public Finance and Public Policy. Worth Publishers, 3rd edition, 2011.

Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Duflo, Esther. Good Economics for Hard Times, 2019, Penguin Books.

Economics, Society and Public Policy: https://www.core-econ.org/espp/book/text/0-3-contents.html

 

Additional literature:

Crook, Tony, John Henneberry, and Christine Whitehead. Planning gain: Providing infrastructure and affordable housing. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

Hanley, Nick, Jason Shogren, and Ben White. Introduction to environmental economics. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Okun, Arthur M. Equality and efficiency: The big tradeoff. Brookings Institution Press, 2015.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Public Sector Economics. Third Edition. W.W Norton & Company, New York. 2000.

Last update: Vejchodská Eliška, doc. Ing. et Ing., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)