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EC426 and EC513 Public Economics 2006/7 darp.lse.ac.uk/EC513.htm

28 September 2006. EC426 and EC513 Public Economics 2006/7 http://darp.lse.ac.uk/EC513.htm. Introduction. Overview. Teaching for MSc and MRes Public Economics Organised in 3 modules: Core Public Economics for Graduate Students Issues in Public Economics for Graduate Students

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EC426 and EC513 Public Economics 2006/7 darp.lse.ac.uk/EC513.htm

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  1. 28 September 2006 EC426 and EC513Public Economics 2006/7http://darp.lse.ac.uk/EC513.htm Introduction

  2. Overview • Teaching for MSc and MRes Public Economics • Organised in 3 modules: • Core Public Economics for Graduate Students • Issues in Public Economics for Graduate Students • Public Economics for PhD Students • Exams • MSc students examined on modules 1 and 2 • MRes students examined on 2 and 3 • hree-hour written examination in the Summer Term • 2005, 2006 papers can be taken as a general guide • MSc students also do an extended essay

  3. Module 1: Core Public Economics for Graduate Students • For MSc students only • MRes students are assumed to be familiar with the material • Covers the basic principles • Introduces the themes in modules 2 and 3 • Teaching Arrangements • 10 weekly two-hour lectures in MT given by Frank Cowell and Jonathan Leape. • Lectures supplemented by one-hour classes

  4. Module 1: Components • The Scope of Public Economics • Welfare analysis of redistribution • Equity, social welfare and taxation • Policy design: social insurance • Optimal income taxation • Optimal commodity taxation • Taxation and individuals: Work decisions • Taxation and companies • Behavioural public economics • Providing public goods

  5. Module 2: Issues in Public Economics for Graduate Students • Common to both MSc and MRes students • All of the items in module 2… • … have a clear link with the broad themes in module 1 • Teaching Arrangements • 10 weekly two-hour lectures in MT given by Frank Cowell and Jonathan Leape • Lectures are supplemented by one-hour classes

  6. Module 2: Components • Wealth taxation • Taxation and long-run inequality • Poverty, inequality and redistribution • Tax reform • Compliance problems • Administration and corruption • Fiscal governance • International issues in taxation • Regulation • Environmental taxation

  7. Module 3: Public Economics for PhD Students • Exclusive to MRes students. • Builds on the structure of modules 1 and 2 • Designed to introduce PhD students to some principal themes emerging in current research • Teaching • Five two-hour lectures • Frank Cowell and… • Erik Schokkaert (visiting from KU Leuven) • Topics • Theories of justice and fairness; “complaints” and deprivation. • Claims and liabilities approach to division problems. • Social choice and responsibility • Compensation and “responsibility-sensitive” egalitarianism. • Developments in optimal income taxation

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