- Docente: Sabrina Pedrini
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Criminology for Investigation and Security (cod. 8491)
Learning outcomes
The course aims to analyze, from an economic point of view, the areas and aims of public sector intervention in market economies. At the end of the course the student has the analytical tools to compare the economic management of public spending in a comparative perspective between European countries
Course contents
PART ONE: Reasons and methods of public intervention Economic justifications for public intervention. Efficiency and theorems of the welfare economy. Efficiency and equity. Market failures: public goods, externalities, information asymmetries. Public decision mechanisms. The public sector in Italy. SECOND PART: Revenue and expenses Principles of taxation and tax incidence. Spending on the welfare state: pensions, health, assistance, education. MONOGRAPHIC PART: public funding for culture
Readings/Bibliography
Stiglitz, J., Economia del settore pubblico, Hoepli, Milano, ultima edizione Dieter Haselbach , Armin Klein, Pius Knüsel, Stephan Opitz, Kulturinfarkt, Marsilio Editore, 2012
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Written tests with open and closed questions. Two intermediate tests are scheduled and recommended for attending students
Office hours
See the website of Sabrina Pedrini
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.