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