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5294 (v.7) Public Finance 565


Area: School of Economics and Finance
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: The topics to be covered in this unit will be chosen from: The economic roles of the state. Public goods, externalities and other sources of market failure, public choice theory, voting theory and bureaucracy theory. Income redistribution, expenditure programs, social insurance. Principles of taxation equity. Neutrality and excess burden. Tax shifting and incidences. Types of taxation and their individual effects. Taxation policy, taxation reform, optimal taxation. General-equilibrium tax incidence. Taxation vs user-pricing, pricing policies of public enterprises. The issue of social balance, privatisation, theories of government growth. Cost-benefit analysis and the efficiency of government expenditure. Intergovernmental financial relations.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 
Field of Education: 091901 Economics
Funding Cluster: 02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 East China Normal University Trimester 1A Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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