| Area: |
School of Economics and Finance |
| Credits: |
25.0 |
| Contact Hours: |
3.0 |
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| ** 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. ** |
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| Seminar: |
1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
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| 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. |
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| ** 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. ** |
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| 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 |
| Availability Information has not been provided by the respective School or Area. Prospective students should contact the School or Area listed above for further information. |
