Public Finance (Government Expenditures)

Website: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~ysung/
Email: ysung@ntu.edu.tw
Drop-in Open Office Hours: See here

9:10 ~ 12noon Friday

Classroom etiquette:

• As you register for this course, you are obligated to attend all classes.
  It is your responsibility to know what I announce and what is going on in class.
• You may bring food or drinks to the classroom. But, no smelly food.
• Please turn off your cellular phone before the class begins. (Video | Movie)
• No conversation or phone calls during the exams.

Undergraduate-level microeconomics.

There will be an in-class mid-term exam and a term paper, each accounting for 50% of your final course grade.
The term paper must be printed out with a cover page, and placed in my mailbox, located in the Econ Department office, before due date.

• Public Finance, H.S. Rosen and T. Gayer, 2014(10e), McGraw-Hill. (華泰代理) (Amazon Kindle)
  
• Public Finance, D.N. Hyman, 2011(10e), South-Western
• Intermediate Public Economics, J. Hindriks and G.D. Myles, 2013(2e), MIT Press.

A. Theory:

1. Introduction (market failure and government intervention): Note (John Nash Movie)
2. Public Goods: Theory and Practice Note
3. Externality: Note [Matching Theory] (Indecent Proposal Movie) (Alan Turing Movie)
4. Public Choice: Note Arrow Impossibility Theorem (The Man Who Knew Infinity) (The Theory of Everything)
   In-Class Midterm Exam: 11/20

B. Practice:

1. Income Redistribution: Note
   
2. Cost-Benefit Analysis: Note 1, Note 2 (The 33) (黑貓中隊)
   
3. Empirical Estimation of Public Good Demands: Note
4. Social Welfare: Social Insurance and Assistance Note
   (Ref: Article 1 | Article 2 | 勞委會 勞動力發展署 | 衛生福利部 中央健保署)
   Final exam (Download)

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