Economic Policy & Public Choice
Lecture with Tutorial in WS 2010/2011
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumärker
Lecture
Time: | Thursday 10:15 - 11:45 |
Place: | HS 2121 |
Main Tutorials (Mandatory)
Sneha Stephen
Time: | Wednesday 8:30 - 10:00 |
Place: | HS 2121 |
Cvetelina Todorova
Time: | Wednesday 8:30 - 10:00 |
Place: | HS 1009 |
Sub-Tutorials (Additional)
NBS: Nicolas Weinhold
Time: | Tuesday 16:15-17:45 |
Place: | Breisacher Tor Room 101 |
General: Cvetelina Todorova
Time: | Tuesday 16:15-17:45 |
Place: | HS 3219 |
Start
Lecture: First Week of Semester
Tutorial: Second Week of Semester
Sub-Tutorials: Third Week of Semester
Target Group
Integrated Master Program First-year Course (Lecture and Tutorial)
Hauptstudium, Anerkennung unter "Wirtschaftspolitik: Ordnungspolitik", "Ordnungs- und Wettbewerbspolitik", "Sozialpolitik"
Credits
6 Credit Points.
Support
Sneha Stephen, Room 2441
Tel.: 203-2320
e-mail: sneha.stephen@vwl.uni-freiburg.de
Office hours: on appointment
Downloads for Lecture
- Syllabus
- Slides Part 1
- Slides Part 2
- Slides Part 3
- Slides Part 4
- Slides Part 5
- Slides Part 6 and 7
- Slides Part 7
- Slides Part 8
Downloads for Tutorial
- Slides Part 1
- Slides Part 2
- Slides Part 3
- Slides Part 4
- Slides Part 5
- Slides Part 6
- Slides Part 7
- Slides Part 8
- Slides Part 9
- Slides Part 10
- Slides Part 11
- Slides Part 12
- Slides Part 13
- Slides Part 14
- Review Questions 1
- Review Questions 2
- Review Questions 3
Downloads for Sub-Tutorial
- Question Set 1
- Review Slides 1
- Question Set 2
- Question Set 3
- Question Set 4
- Supporting Reading for Question Set 4
- Question Set 5
- Question Set 6
- Question Set 7
- Solutions for Question Set 6
- Solutions for Question Set 7
- Question Set 8
- Solutions for Question Set 8
- Question Set 9
Short Outline and Introductory References
Outline:
- Introduction
- Economic problems of economic policy
- Economic man and collective action
- Allocation and exchange
- Distribution and conflict
- Liberty and welfare
- Implementation and reform
- Stability and sustainability
- The public choice of economic policy
- Rational and behavioral public choice
- Positive and normative public choice
- Institutions and hierarchies of public choice
- Authoritarian policy formation
1.1 Leviathan governments
1.2 Autocratic regimes - Democratic organization and voting rules
2.1 Rational voting and basic voting systems
2.2 Direct and representative democracy
2.3 Legislature
2.4 Bureaucracy
2.5 Interest groups, rent-seeking and lobbying - Spatial hierarchy
3.1 Federalism
3.2 Supranational policy choice
- Liberal concepts of economic policy formation
- Ordoliberal design
- Liberal paternalism
- Constitutional political economy
- Application to special policy issues
- Redistribution in democracy
- Organizing the just welfare state
- Market regulation and privatization
- Constitutional budget constraints and their effects on economic policy
References:
Introductory Textbooks:
- Hillman, A.L.: Public Finance and Public Policy, 2nd Ed., Cambridge 2009.
- Mueller, D.C.: Public Choice III, Cambridge 2003.
Additional readings will be announced.