Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
SECS-P/03 (FINANCE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course
GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC POLICIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (28/09/2020 - 11/12/2020)
Lesson hours
40 lesson hours
Prerequisites
None.
Some prior knowledge of the basic concepts in public economics (market failures, main government accounts, tax systems) is useful.
Learning outcomes
To understand the economic rationale behind the presence of multiple governmental levels, the assignment of specific functions to those different levels, transfers and autonomous financing of decentralised levels, and the specific features of the Italian system. At the end of the course the student must be able to know the local finance system as a set of own and derived resources of the local authorities aimed at the management and delivery of public services and the discipline of the accounting system and public finance constraints and in particular will need to be able to understand local authority planning documents.
Course contents
Theories and models that are useful to understanding the issues laid down above, starting from models of fiscal federalism and voter mobility, the theory of clubs and other specific topics within the broader field of public economics. Analysis of the political economy around the constitutional models of decentralisation or centralisation of tax decisions Empiric articles on the determinants and consequences of fiscal decentralisation. Models of local authority planning documents, theoretical references to EE. LL. accounting law and local finance.
Teaching methods
Traditional lectures are propedeutical to subsequent class discussions and seminars.
Reccomended or required readings
J. Gruber "Scienza delle finanze" ed . Egea 2018: cap. 4 e 5.
T. Baskaran, Feld, L. P., and Schnellenbach, J. (2016). “Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization, and Economic Growth: A Meta‐Analysis.” Economic Inquiry, 54(3), 1445-1463.
D. Treisman (2006). “Explaining fiscal decentralisation: geography, colonial history, economic development and political institutions.” Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 44(3), 289-325.
Law 42/2009; D. Lgs 118/2011 and s.m.i; D. Lgs 267/2000 PART 2nd art. 149 and Sept. Slides provided by the teacher.
Assessment methods
There is no tests in itinere.The student will take only one exam in the face of the modular components of teaching and passing the exam will result in the acquisition of the CFU attributed to teaching. The exam, in oral form, will assess the preparation and ability of students to present their acquired knowledge and will focus on three distinct topics:
- Theories and empirical analysis of decentralisation and fiscal federalism
- financial autonomy and derivative finance of EE. LL, programming tools
- structure of public budgets: analysis, models, content, rules
The final vote will be the weighted average of the votes of all three parties
Further information
No further information
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