Course contents
Contents:
1.Public policies and the role of the EU level according to the fiscal federalism theory
2.Fiscal policy in the EU before the Maastricht Treaty
3. The theory of the Optimal Currency Area
4. Trends and drivers in the evolution of the public debt
5. From the Maastricht Treaty to the Stability and Growth Pact
6. Fiscal rules in the EU: rationale and critic aspects
7. Italian fiscal consolidation and future challenges
8. Fiscal consolidation under symmetric and asymmetric shocks
9. Fiscal polity in the EU during the crisis
10: The EU budget: origins, functions and expenditure headings
11. The Eu Budget: the own resource system
Reccomended or required readings
ATTENDING STUDENTS:
1. SLIDES ON THE WEB SITE:
http://www-3.unipv.it/webdsps/it/materiale.php?id=zatti&ins=Finanza%20pubblica%20europea&au=192a3d1ceceed5ea9540d0bb3c3e37cd:1347865794 nel corso delle lezioni.
2. Paramithiotti G, Zatti A. (2015), “Il Bilancio dell’Unione europea: origini, principi ed elementi costitutivi”, Pavia University Press, Capitoli I,II, III, V, VI.
NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS:
1. Bosi P. (2015), “Corso di Scienza delle finanze”, Il Mulino, Cap. 1,2,4,6
2. Paramithiotti G, Zatti A. (2015), “Il Bilancio dell’Unione europea: origini, principi ed elementi costitutivi”, Pavia University Press
3. Kolling M., Serrano Leal, C, “An analysis of the agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020”, http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/wcm/connect/851f348042e75895982dfc21e143ff92/WP2-2014_Kolling-Serrano_Analysis_agreement_Multiannual_Financial_Framework_2014-2020.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=851f348042e75895982dfc21e143ff92.
4. Mortensen J., “Economic Policy Coordination in the Economic and Monetary Union: From Maastricht via the SGP to the Fiscal Pact”
http://aei.pitt.edu/43184/1/WD381_JM_Economic_Policy_Coordination.pdf