PUBLIC ECONOMICS I (FPE09)

Basic Information

• Code: FPE09
• Location: Helsinki, Economicum building
• Time: May 25-29, 2009
  • Time schedule (PDF)
• Application form
  • Deadline for applications: May 11, 2009
  • Doctoral students not enrolled in FDPE, including students in foreign universities, are able to attend individual courses. See How to Apply for the FDPE courses.
• Course Description: The aim of the course is to provide a basis for understanding modern public economics, with an emphasis on theoretical and empirical analysis of taxation. The topics include welfare-theoretic foundations of public economics, measurement of income inequality, optimal income and commodity taxation, empirical tax analysis (in particular estimating the elasticity of taxable income), public provision of private and public goods, and behavioural public economics. See preliminary contents of the course (PDF).
• List of participants (PDF)
• The course includes 20 hours of lectures, exercises and an exam. In addition, the students have the possibility of submitting a voluntary course essay. An accepted essay will improve the final grade by one. (See instructions below.)
• FDPE recommends that the course is acknowledged by the student's own university/department with 3 ECTS credit points.

Teaching Staff

• Lecturers: Professor Matti Tuomala (University of Tampere) and Dr Jukka Pirttilä (Labour Institute of Economic Researh)

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Teaching Material

• Syllabus (PDF)
• Syllabus with links (PDF)
• Lecture notes 1 (Tuomala) (PDF)
• Lecture notes 2 (Tuomala) (PDF)
• Lecture notes 3 (Tuomala) (PDF)
• Lecture notes 4 (Tuomala) (PDF)
• Lecture notes 5 (Tuomala) (PDF)
• Lecture notes 1 (Pirttilä) (PDF)
• Lecture notes 2 (Pirttilä) (PDF)
• Lecture notes 3 (Pirttilä) (PDF)
• Lecture notes 4 (Pirttilä) (PDF)

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Exercises

• Instructions for the course essay (PDF)
  • Deadline for the essay: June 10, 2009
• Exercises (Tuomala) (PDF)

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1st Exam

• Time: June 12, 2009, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Places:
  • AT THE PARTICIPANTS' OWN DEPARTMENTS
  • but in Helsinki only at Economicum, in the room B416 (4th floor), where all students living in or near Helsinki can take the exam.
• Please register for the exam by sending an e-mail to fdpe-hecer[at]helsinki.fi (and let us know where you want to take the exam).
• Participants at foreign universities, please contact FDPE, fdpe-hecer[at]helsinki.fi.
• The results are in.

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2nd Exam

• Time: August 7, 2009, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Places:
  • AT THE PARTICIPANTS' OWN DEPARTMENTS
  • but in Helsinki only at Economicum, in the room B416 (4th floor), where all students living in or near Helsinki can take the exam.
• Please register for the exam by sending an e-mail to fdpe-hecer[at]helsinki.fi (and let us know where you want to take the exam).
• Participants at foreign universities, please contact FDPE, fdpe-hecer[at]helsinki.fi.
• N.B! The 2nd exam is not a retake exam. If you took part in the first exam, you cannot take the 2nd exam.
• The results are in.

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Travel Grants

• The Society for economics professors and docents in Finland (Kansantaloustieteen professorien ja dosenttien yhdistys ry) gives travel grants to doctoral economics students, please see FDPE website Financial Aid.

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