Advanced Public Finance

The module equips students with the most important concepts in Public Finance and makes them familiar with different tools for the analysis of public interventions. It includes the effects of government taxing and spending on the economy, including economic efficiency and the distribution of income and wealth. Core topics will be market failure and taxation as well as the political economy and public choice. It includes as well a framework, which enables students to better understand and investigate real world questions regarding public interventions, taxation and redistribution independently.