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 and 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 and optimal taxation. General-equilibrium tax incidence. Taxation versus user-pricing and pricing policies of public enterprises. The issue of social balance, privatisation and 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
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

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