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[ 572KPEHOSPK20 ] KS Economics of Social Policy
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3 ECTS B2 - Bachelor's programme 2. year Economics Karin Mayr-Dorn 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Pre-requisites (*)KS Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre KS Marktwirtschaft und Staat
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Economics and Business 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students can assess the possible effects of public expenditure programs on economic efficiency and distribution based on microeconomic methods and justify them verbally.
Skills Knowledge
  • Know and assess different concepts of social welfare.
  • Apply microeconomic theories on the effects of public cash and in-kind benefits.
  • Rationalize public social insurance systems.
  • Concepts of social welfare
  • Economic efficiency
  • Distribution
  • Income and substitution effects
  • Theory of social insurance systems
  • Incentive effects of cash and in-kind benefits
Criteria for evaluation Two exams and homework
Language German
Study material Barr, N. (2020), The Economics of the Welfare State, 6th edition, Oxford University Press.

Hindriks and Myles (2013), Intermediate Public Economics, 2nd edition, MIT Press.

Stiglitz (2015), Economics of the Public Sector, 4th edition, Norton.

Changing subject? No
Corresponding lecture (*)572AECOSEKU15: IK Ökonomie des öffentlichen Sektors (3 ECTS)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 200
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority