Guia docente 2023_24
Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais
Grado en Economía
 Subjects
  Public economics
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Role and size of the public sector Agents of the public sector
The weight of the public sector
International Comparisons
Justification for public intervention Efficiency and equity
1st and 2nd Theorems of welfare economics
Market failures
Public goods and externalities Public goods
Efficient provision of pure public goods
Lindahl prices
Preference revelation mechanisms
The nature of externalities
Externalities among producers
Utility interdependence
Solutions for externalities
Other market failures Imperfect competition
Public intervention
Imperfect information and market incompleteness
Public intervention for equity Economic justice and redistribution
Social welfare functions
Equity
Public choice theory Arrow's impossibility theorem
Majority voting
Borda count
Efficiency in the public sector The excess burden of taxation
Cost-benefit analysis
Distributive tax incidence Tax shifting
Fair taxation and progressivity
Optimal taxation Taxation principles
Taxation rules
Public revenues in Spain Taxes
Fees and other revenues
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