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 316-305 Public Finance

Coordinator

Assoc. Professor N Norman

Prerequisites

316-201 Intermediate Macroeconomics and 316-202 Intermediate Microeconomics.

Semester

1

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Subject Description

The economics of government budgets and budgetary policy; public finance in relation to income distribution, stability, resource allocation and growth; government revenue and the theory of taxation; taxation reform; the national debt; government expenditure; problems of federal finance.

Assessment

A 2-hour examination (80%) and class assignments totalling approximately 2000 words (20%).

Prescribed Texts
  • Cullis J and Jones P, Public Finance and Public Choice. 1992 McGraw-Hill.
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