00891 - Financial Science

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Business (cod. 8851)

Learning outcomes

Economic analysis is widely used in various public policy fields such as environmental policy, industrial organization, social welfare, and labour market. Economic principles of consumer and producer theory, social welfare economics, public goods and externality, market failures and imperfect information offer many insights into understanding of economics in deriving solutions to the issues of public policy. These economic principles and some quantitative methods will be studied in detail to understand the application of economic theories and quantitative models to public policy analysis.

Course contents

The course is composed by 60 hours of front lessons and is ideally divided in two parts. In the first part, the course will provide students with the concepts and tools of economics to analyse the role of government intervention, its justification, and implications for efficiency and fairness, using specific policy areas as examples. In the second part, the course will introduce student to major concepts in analysis local and state taxation policy.

Detailed information on the program will be available at http://elearning-cds.unibo.it

Readings/Bibliography

Harvey S. Rosen (2014): Public Finance. McGraw-Hill. (10th edition)

Paolo Bosi, M. Cecilia Guerra (2017): I tributi nell'economia italiana Mulino.

Teaching methods

Class lessons.

Assessment methods

Written examination, two hours, four questions.

Teaching tools

Slides. Detailed information on      http://elearning-cds.unibo.it/

Links to further information

http://elearning-cds.unibo.it/

Office hours

See the website of Cristina Ugolini