Elements of Financial Science (2007/2008)

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Course code
4S00410
Name of lecturer
Veronica Polin
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5
Academic sector
SECS-P/03 - PUBLIC ECONOMICS
Language of instruction
Italian
Location
VERONA
Period
1° sem lez dal Oct 1, 2007 al Dec 21, 2007.

Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing undergraduate students with the analytic tools to understand a variety of public finance issues, with particular emphasis on Italian situation. Topics include welfare economics (first and second theorems), market failures (public goods, externalities, non-competitive market structures and asymmetric information), public choice, income distribution, welfare state, taxation (principle of taxation, tax equity, economic effects of taxation, tax incidence, structural features of the major taxes in Italy). The course covers both normative and positive aspects of public finance.

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Lectures.

Assessment methods and criteria

The final grade is determined by the performances obtained in a written exam which covers the entire course outline.

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