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Course title: Finanzwissenschaft

Instructors: Professor Dr. Eckhard Janeba and Professor Dr. Eberhard Wille

Method (hours per week): lecture (4) + practical exercises (2)

Examination: written, 180 minutes

ECTS-Credits: 8

Remark: This semester is divided in two halves. Prof. Wille lectures in the first half, Prof. Janeba in the second.

 

Course description: The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the modern areas of Public Finance. In the first part the lecture covers the following topics:

a. Motives, carriers and aim of public activities
b. Instruments of public finance
c. Public goods and the optimal budget
d. Budgetary and finance planning
e. Outcome measurement in the public sector and cost-benefit analysis

The second part of the course deals with the welfare-theoretic foundations of government activity in general, and analyzes optimal taxation and public provision of private goods in a second-best world in particular. Other issues discussed are the role of government intervention in the presence of externalities, the shifting of taxes in partial and general equilibrium (tax incidence), and tax evasion, among other things.

Contact persons:

Prof. Dr. Eckhard Janeba, Tel. 181-1795, e-Mail: janeba@uni-mannheim.de, L7, 3-5, room 2.29;

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Wille, Tel. 181-1830, E-Mail: wille@rumms.uni-mannheim.de, L7, 3-5, room 2-20

Information für Diplom-Betriebswirte:

Für Studierende, die noch nicht an der Veranstaltung "Finanzwissenschaft für Betriebswirte" teilgenommen haben, besteht die Möglichkeit, dieses durch Besuch eines Teils der obigen Veranstaltung entweder bei Prof. Wille (1. Semesterhälfte) oder bei Prof. Janeba (2. Semesterhälfte) zu absolvieren.

Nur der jeweils besuchte Teil ist klausurrelevant.