Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500259 Political Science and Public Management. | OB | 3 | 2 |
Having passed a basic Economics course, and particularly, having a basic training in microeconomics, is a prerequisite to register for this course. It is also highly advisable to have attended the "Propedeutic Course on Quantitative Methods”.
- Learning the foundations of public intervention.
- Relating public intervention to voting mechanisms and decision-making in the public sector.
- Approaching the economic theory of democracy and the economic theory of bureaucracy.
- Achieving a theoretical knowledge of economic behaviour, incentives and institutions giving rise to some collective outcomes.
- Achieving a theoretical knowledge of public finance and income redistribution.
- Accessing the relevant information on goals and instruments of economic policy and public sector economics.
- Obtaining and applying the terminology and specific techniques of analysis in economic policy and public sector economics.
- Appraising social policies (social security, health, education, demographic policy and migration)
The general framework of the theory of economic policy and public sector economics is presented. Particular attention is devoted to market failure and the case for public intervention, as well as government failure that can result from this intervention.
1. The formation of economic policy: Basic conceptual framework of goals, instruments and policies.
2. The formation of social preferences: from methodological individualism to institutionalism. Basic elements of Welfare Economics.
3. Institutions and markets: study of the basic working of a market economy, market and government failures, transaction costs and property rights
4. Decision-making rules: unanimity rule and majority rule, Arrow’s theorem, median vote theorem, Lindahl equilibrium.
5. Analysis of social policies: social security, health economics, education economics, demographic economics and immigration, family economics.
Theoretical lectures will focus on the more important issues in each topic, referring to the relevant references in aspects not requiring their development in class.
The objective of practical classes is that of applying the issues discussed in theoretical lectures to the situation in Spain and other countries. Practical classes will be developed with working groups.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Case studies | 15 | 0.6 | 5, 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 18 |
Lectures | 30 | 1.2 | 5, 1, 6, 4, 13, 16, 17, 18, 7 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 7.5 | 0.3 | 6, 8, 13, 19, 18, 21 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study, preparation and other activities | 90 | 3.6 | 5, 1, 2, 6, 4, 14, 13, 18 |
Evaluation of the course will be on a continuous assessment basis with the following criteria:
1. Two written exams, to be carried out on established dates, with weighs 30% each.
2. Two case studies, to be delivered on established dates, with weighs 20% each.
The instructor will set the dates along the first week of the course. Students will strictly respect the above-mentioned dates. Otherwise they will not be evaluated.
To pass the subject the average grade of the two written exams should not be less than 3.5.
In case plagiarism is detected, the grade assigned to the activity will be 0.
In accordance with article 117.2 of the UAB Academic Regulations, the evaluation of those students who have been enroled before may consist of a single synthesis examination. The students who wish to be evaluated this way should contact the professor at the beginning of the semester.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Two written exams and two case studies | 30%, 30%, 20%, 20% | 7.5 | 0.3 | 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 4, 8, 14, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 15, 16, 17, 19, 18, 21, 22, 23, 7 |
Albi, E., J.M. González-Páramo and I. Zubiri (2004), Economía Pública, Barcelona: Ariel.
Cuadrado, J.R. (dir) (2010), Política Económica. Elaboración, Objetivos e Instrumentos, Madrid: McGraw-Hill.
Hindriks, J. and G.D. Myles (2013) Intermediate Public Economics, 2nd ed., MIT Press.
Krugman, P. and R. Wells (2006): Introducción a la Economía. Microeconomía, Barcelona: Editorial Reverté.
Rosen, H. S. (2008) Hacienda Pública, 7ª ed., Madrid: McGraw Hill.
Stiglitz, J.E. (1995), La Economía del Sector Público, Barcelona: ed. Bosch.