Public Economics - JSM731

• Anglický název: Public Economics
• Český název: Veřejná ekonomie
• Zajišťuje: Katedra veřejné a sociální politiky (23-KVSP)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2025
• Semestr: zimní
• E-Kredity: 8
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (30)
• Minimální obsazenost: 1
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: doc. Ing. et Ing. Eliška Vejchodská, Ph.D.
• Třída: Courses for incoming students
• Neslučitelnost : JEB025
• Je neslučitelnost pro: JEB025

Anotace

The course introduces students to the economics of the public sector. It provides the theoretical underpinnings for the interventions of the public sector into the economy including public expenditure analysis and taxation issues. It discusses the questions of when and how to intervene into the market and which effects do the interventions have. It familiarises students with public intervention practice within selected public policy areas and the research techniques taking place within public sector policy analysis.

Poslední úprava: Novotný Vilém, PhDr., Ph.D. (23.12.2023)

Cíl předmětu

By the end of the course, students will:

-          explain the purposes of the public sector interventions lying in efficiency and equity

-          identify possible approaches for testing the causal effects of public policy

-          understand theoretical tools of the assessment of public sector interventions

-          be acquainted with the practical applications of the public policy analysis

-          apply economic theory on real public policy problems

-          explain public finance perspective of public services provision

Poslední úprava: Vejchodská Eliška, doc. Ing. et Ing., Ph.D. (02.09.2024)

Literatura

Only selected chapters covered by the lectures are compulsory literature sources:
Gruber, Jonathan. Public Finance and Public Policy. Worth Publishers, 3rd edition, 2011.
Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Duflo, Esther. Good Economics for Hard Times, 2019, Penguin Books.
Economics, Society and Public Policy: https://www.core-econ.org/espp/book/text/0-3-contents.html
 
Additional literature:
Crook, Tony, John Henneberry, and Christine Whitehead. Planning gain: Providing infrastructure and affordable housing. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
Hanley, Nick, Jason Shogren, and Ben White. Introduction to environmental economics. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Okun, Arthur M. Equality and efficiency: The big tradeoff. Brookings Institution Press, 2015.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. Public Sector Economics. Third Edition. W.W Norton & Company, New York. 2000.

Poslední úprava: Novotný Vilém, PhDr., Ph.D. (23.12.2023)

Sylabus

1. Opening session: The size of the public sector within the economy
2. The role of the public sector
3. Theoretical and empirical tools used to analyse public policy
4. Externalities
5. Public goods and common-pool resources
6. Inequality
7. Cost benefit analysis for evaluating public expenditure
8. Taxation as a source of public finance – introduction
9. Fiscal deficit and government debt
10. Public policy in practice: Private financing of public infrastructure and social housing by  increasing property values
11. Public policy in practice: Environmental protection
12. Closing lecture: What have I learnt, three things which were most fascinating for me, how does the course relate to my interests in study

Poslední úprava: Novotný Vilém, PhDr., Ph.D. (23.12.2023)