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Public Microeconomics
This module information video is presented by Ian Preston
Aims:
To provide students with a thorough and up-to-date understanding of research in selected topics in public microeconomics.
Course outline:
- Household welfare measurement: costs of children, within household decision making. Social welfare measurement: inequality and poverty.
- Issues in optimum tax design. Commodity taxation and consumer demand. Income taxation and labour supply.
- Public economics grounds for intervention: public goods and other market failures.
| Taught by: | Ian Preston |
| Assessment: | 2 hours of lectures per week and 4 problem classes with written assignments. The course will be examined by a 2-hour unseen written exam in Term 3. |
| Suitable for: | Graduate students. |
| Prerequisites: | ECON0065 |
| Moodle page: | ECON0061 |
