Syllabus
Registration via LPIS
Day | Date | Time | Room |
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Monday | 10/10/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 10/17/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | D2.0.342 Teacher Training Raum |
Monday | 10/24/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 10/31/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 11/07/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 11/14/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 11/21/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 11/28/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 12/05/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 12/12/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 12/19/22 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 01/09/23 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
Monday | 01/16/23 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM | TC.3.06 |
This course aims to attract students with an interest for further specialization in the field of public economics. Topics will cover the analysis tax shifting and the empirical measurement of the distribution of the burden for taxes such as the Value Added Tax or Corporate Income Tax. The course will also cover recent research on the behavioral effects of tax provisions. Finally, the course will cover venerable questions in public economics, such as voter turnout and political participation as well as evaluation of redistributive measures of the state.
Participants acquire advanced knowledge of modern public economics, together with relevant policy issues currently on the political agenda. In addition, they gain an understanding of the way in which economic analysis using these concepts and models can provide insight into the related policy debates. Successful completion should provide the background necessary to understand current public policy debates as well as more advanced research topics in public economics, with a view to completing a thesis in the field.
Attendance is compulsory. Students are required to attend 80% of the total amount of class contact hours.
Lectures, books, articles to be read and discussed in class, homework assignments.
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