Public Finance (9545.1)
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EFTSL | Credit points | Faculty |
0.125 | 3 | Faculty Of Business, Government & Law |
Discipline | Study level | HECS Bands |
Canberra School Of Politics, Economics And Society | Level 3 - Undergraduate Advanced Unit | Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021) Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan Social Work_Exclude 0905) Band 5 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021) |
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:1. Define public finance terms such as "public good", "free-rider", "median voter theorem", "externality", "pigouvian taxes", and "Lindahl tax". Where appropriate, students will be able to include a graphical representation of these concepts in their definition of these terms;
2. Construct simple economic models related to public finance, including the Consumer and Producer surplus models and the Keynesian aggregate demand model;
3. Graphically describe the effects of taxation on labour supply decisions, at both the individual and national levels; and
4. Explain the political economy aspects of public finance, particularly as they relate to rent seeking and lobbying, as well as the strategies that can be taken to combat rent-seeking behaviours, as well as other more general government failures.
Graduate attributes
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Prerequisites
9518 Foundations of Microeconomics OR 9519 Foundations of Macroeconomics OR 6355 Introduction to EconomicsCorequisites
None.Incompatible units
6404 Economics of the Public SectorEquivalent units
6404 Economics of the Public SectorAssumed knowledge
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Required texts
This unit utilises an electronic textbook :
"Introduction to Economic Analysis" (PDF) by R. Preston McAfee;Tracy Lewis;Donald J. Dale ( hereafter referred to as the e-Text)
This textbook is included at no cost in pdf format via the links below and is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Share-Alike 3.0 License which allows them to be freely distributed. The text can be downloaded at the Moodle Website for this Unit. In addition the Unit will utilise the recorded lectures used in the unit 6404 Economics of the Public Sector taught at UC in Semester 2 2014, and other freely available web resources and multimedia contents.
It is also recommended that students have access to Abelson, P. (2012). Public Economics: Principles and Practice, 3rd edition, McGraw Hill, Sydney, which is available in the library
Submission of assessment items
Supplementary assessment
Supplementary assessment will not be offered in this unit
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Participation requirements
This is an entirely an online unit and students are expected to go online and complete all the required tasks and assessments
Required IT skills
It is assumed students will be able to access the Moodle at the University of Canberra, have access to the internet and are able to view multimedia contents from on the internet.
Work placement, internships or practicums
None
- Flexible Period 11, 2016, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (149944)
- Flexible Period 10, 2016, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (150124)
- Flexible Period 9, 2016, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (150282)
- Semester 2, 2016, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (150754)
- Flexible Period 7, 2016, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (150521)
- Winter Term, 2016, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (152454)
- Flexible Period 6, 2016, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (152767)
- Semester 1, 2016, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (155458)
- Summer Semester, 2016, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (155459)
- Semester 2, 2015, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (146369)
- Flexible Period 8, 2015, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (137973)
- Flexible Period 6, 2015, Online, UC - Canberra, Bruce (137971)