Political Economics (WS 2023/24)
Prof. Dr. Florian Herold
This course deals with modeling and analyzing the political process and how it influences public choice of policies. While public finance lectures typically focus on understanding which policy intervention a welfare maximizing state should ideally undertake, this Teilmodul “Political Economics” considers political constrains and how the real distribution of powers will distort public policy.
The main purpose of the course to provide students with a toolbox of formal models that allow them to structure and analyze political processes and their influence on public policy, in particular when applied to the European Union. Lectures are in English.
Weitere Informationen zu Form und technischer Durchführung der Veranstaltung werden dort bekannt gegeben.
Veranstaltungstermine
Vorlesung (Prof. Florian Herold)
- Donnerstag, 14.00 - 16.00 Uhr FMA/00.08, Beginn:19.10.2023
Übung (Stephan Eitel, M.Sc.)
- Montag, 16.00 - 18.00 Uhr F21/03.83, Beginn: 30.10.2023
Gliederung
- The Problem of Aggregating Preferences
- Electoral Competition
- Agency
- Redistributive Politics
- Dynamic Policy Problems and Public Debt
Literatur
T. Persson and G. Tabellini, Political Economics – Explaining Economic Policy, MIT Press
Further Literature:
D. Austen-Smith and J.S. Banks, Positive Political Theory I+II, University of Michigan Press
T. Besley, Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government, Oxford University Press