Financing Sustainable Public-Private Partnerships

Lecture in Winter Semester 2016/17

Financing Sustainable Public-Private Partnerships

Dr. Sarah Jamil
 

Course schedule

• Session 1 - Sa 14.01.2017 : 9 -17 Uhr : HS 1199  
• Session 2 - So 15.01.2017 : 9 -13 Uhr : HS 3042
• Session 3 - Sa 28.01.2017 : 9 -17 Uhr : HS 3043
• Session 4 - So 29.01.2017 : 9 -13 Uhr : HS 3043  

Lecture Slides 

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Lecture Slides 2 

Schedule

• Blocked Course

Target Group and Language

• M.Sc. Economics: Profiles “Finance” and “Economics & Politics”, Second-year course
• M.Sc. VWL (alte PO): Volkswirtschaftspolitik.
• M.Sc. VWL (neue PO): Profillinien “Accounting, Finance and Taxation”, “Public Sector Economics and International Taxation”, “Constitutional Economics and Competition Policy”.
• M.Sc. BWL (Public and Non-Profit Management): Wahlmodul in Public Management, Non-Profit Management, BWL, Public Sector Economics.
• Diplom VWL: Wirtschaftspolitik, Finanzmärkte, Ordnungs- und Wettbewerbsökonomik.

• The lecture is held in English.
   

Credits: 4 ECTS

• Written exam

Outline

1. Cooperation between the public and the private Sector - Foundations

a. Definition and demarcation

b. Variations of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)

c. Application range of PPP

d. Theoretical contributions concerning the desirability of PPP

e. Public-Private Partnerships – their history of origins and the driving forces today

2. Elaboration of an appropriate research background for a PPP constitution

a. Orthodox approach / „Mainstream Economics“

b. Constitutional Economics

c. Economics of self-control

d. Public Choice

e. Property Rights Theory

f. Theory of Agency

g. New Political Economy

3. Justification of state

a. The social contract

b. The justification of the state and the assumption of Leviathan

c. Rent-seeking activities

4. Requirements for an appropriate PPP constitution