Legacy Course Catalog
ECON 623 - Public Economics II
| Effectivity: | 01/08/2007 - Fall 2007 *** @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr |
| Short Title: | Public Economics II |
| Description: | An introduction to the design issues of public policy and expenditures. Topics include: externalities (theory, policy issues, and proposed solutions), public goods and Lindahl equilibria, local and excludable public goods, nonconvexities and marginal cost pricing, general theory of second best, game forms and strategic behavior, social choice theory and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, information and mechanism design, optimal taxation revisited, allocation mechanisms and incentives. Students will prepare brief report/presentations on policy or theoretical areas of interest. Prerequisite: ECON 60900, 62200. |
| School: | School Of Management |
| Department: | School Of Management - Adm & Instr |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | NO |
| Temporary Flag: | NO |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
