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Basic Information
- Code: FPE11
- Location: Helsinki, Economicum building
- Time: May 16-27, 2011
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Application form
- Deadline for applications: May 8, 2011
- 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.
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Course
outline (pdf)
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Reading list (pdf)
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Revised reading list, Pirttilä (pdf
updated May 24)
- List of participants
(pdf, updated May 18)
- The course includes 30 hours of lectures, exercises and an exam.
- FDPE recommends that the course is acknowledged by the student's own
university with 4 ECTS credit points.
Teaching Staff
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Teaching Material
Professor Tuomala:
Professor Pirttilä:
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Exercises
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Exam
- Time: June 17, 2011 at 10 am - 2 pm
- Places:
- AT THE PARTICIPANTS' OWN DEPARTMENTS
- but in Helsinki only at Economicum, in seminar
room 3-4, 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
- Deadline for registration: June 10, 2011
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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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