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| Detailed information |
| Pre-requisites |
(*)KS Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre KS Marktwirtschaft und Staat
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| Original study plan |
Bachelor's programme Economics and Business 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
- Students are able to understand and participate in public policy debates, particularly on the design of the tax system, the provision of public goods and the regulation of natural monopolies.
- Students are able to examine and critically evaluate economic contributions to the topics covered in the course.
- Students are able to understand and confidently discuss scientific papers that deal with the topics of the course.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
- Students are able to use the main analytical tools, theoretical models and empirical evidence to explain and to study the economic policy issues covered in the course.
- Students can explain how economists apply insights from microeconomic theory and empirical studies to recommend and justify public policy measures.
- The students can apply the theoretical findings to concrete problems and examples.
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- Students know about the government’s role in the provision and production of goods and services. They recognize the reasons for market failure in case of public goods and in case of natural monopolies, know what measures the government can take to ensure efficiency and what problems if faces in doing so.
- Students are familiar with the economic concepts for analyzing tax effects. They know how to use them to determine the consequences of consumption, labor and capital income taxes on individual's behavior as well as on efficiency and distribution.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Final (written) exam, homework (to collect bonus points on a voluntary basis)
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| Methods |
Lecture, discussion, exercises/examples.
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| Language |
German |
| Study material |
- Slides and exercises via download in Moodle
- Textbooks
- J. E. Stiglitz, Economics of the public sector, 4th ed., 2015.
- J. Gruber, Public finance and public policy, 6th ed., 2019.
- H. R. Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics, 8th ed., 2010 (or later ed.).
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Earlier variants |
They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
572K2BVSUSK15: KS Taxes and Government Expenditure (2015W-2020S)
2OSUSTSK: KS Taxes and Government Expenditure (2001W-2015S)
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