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The course offers an overview of political economy. After completing the course, students should be familiar with different topics comprising political economy and have a sense of each topic's research frontier. The course is meant to be taken in combination with a public finance component. Poslední úprava: Papariga Anna, Mgr. (01.02.2022)
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The reading list will be distributed during the first lecture. Poslední úprava: Papariga Anna, Mgr. (01.02.2022)
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The final grade will be based on: 20 problem sets, 30 final exam, 50 paper presentation.
Problem sets (about six) will be distributed during the course and are due by the last lecture of the course. Please submit (email) your problem sets as a pdf in LaTeX.
The final exam will be based on the course readings, the problem sets, and the presentations. The exam is open-book and consists of four short questions (out of four given) and one long question (out of two given).
One paper presentation should take place in each week (excess supply and demand of weeks and students will be rationed out) and should be devoted to a specific paper. Papers suitable for presentation are designated with a P on the reading list. Poslední úprava: Papariga Anna, Mgr. (01.02.2022)
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The course is comprised of 12 weekly meetings. Each meeting lasts three hours during which a lecture is combined with a (paper) student presentation. There are no exercise sessions. 1. social choice 2. modeling elections 3. other roles of elections, information transmission/aggregation 4. (legislative) bargaining 5. influence 6. agency 7. parties 8. political economy of growth, political failures 9. behavioral political economy 10. conflict 11. media 12. redistribution/income inequality, polarization Poslední úprava: Papariga Anna, Mgr. (01.02.2022)
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