| Credit: | 5 |
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| Status: | Bachelors - All Bachelors - elective BEF - elective English Semester - summer |
| Course supervisors: | doc. Petr Janský Ph.D. |
| Course homepage: | JEB025 |
| Literature: | Required reading: Stiglitz, J.E. (2000) Economics of the Public Sector, 3. Edition Textbooks: Hillman, A.L. (2009) Public Finance and Public Policy, Responsibilities and Limitations of Government, Cambridge University Press Gruber, J. (2010) Public Finance and Public Policy, Worth Publishers Hindriks, J., Myles, G.D. (2006) Intermediate Public Economics, The MIT Press Barr, N. (2004) The Economics of the Welfare State, Stanford University Press Cullis, J., Jones, P. (1998) Public Finance and Public Choice, McGraw Hill |
| Description: | The course deals with standard public finance topics: we start with an introduction to the economic rationale for government. The major part of the course is then devoted to the theory of taxation, i.e. how taxes influence economic activities and to the analysis of public expenditure theories, namely public choice theory. |
