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Public Economics
Communication, Journalism & Media Studies Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2025 - mid Dec 2025
Public Economics
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Economics
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 13651
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Basic Mathematic Analysis, including an introduction to constrained optimization & Intermediate Microeconomics, including an introduction to general equilibrium
DESCRIPTION
In the first part of the course, the basic ideas and magnitudes of state intervention in the economy and budget tools are discussed. In the next part, an introduction to the Theory of Taxation is presented, where the incidence of taxes and their effects on behavior are analyzed. The excess tax created by choice of a good over other goods, the choice between leisure and consumption, and the choice in an intertemporal consumption model are studied in detail. Basic ideas about empirical estimates of elasticities are also raised. The following part presents some fundamental ideas about equity, well-being, and redistribution. The fundamental ideas about optimal taxation, and the basic aspects of the central tax figures are discussed next. It ends with a discussion of the main issues of fiscal decentralization and the economic policy of taxation.