| Competences |
| Type A | Code | Competences Specific |
| A7 | Evaluate potential threats and opportunities for public institutions at the local and regional levels of processes linked to economic globalization. | |
| Type B | Code | Competences Transversal |
| Type C | Code | Competences Nuclear |
| Learning outcomes |
| Type A | Code | Learning outcomes |
| A7 |
Understand and evaluate the welfare policies carried out in different OECD countries and their impact on the life quality of their citizens. | |
| Type B | Code | Learning outcomes |
| Type C | Code | Learning outcomes |
| Contents |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Public expenditure | - Public expenditure policies - Public expenditure and growth - Public expenditure centralization and decentralization |
| Inequality | - Measurement of inequality - Consequences of inequality |
| Taxation | - Types of taxation - Effects of taxation - Centralization and decentralization of taxes |
| Public debt | - The evolution of public debt - Public debt and growth |
| Conclusions |
- Sustainability of the welfare state - Advantages and disadvantages of social policies for firm localization |
| Planning |
| Methodologies :: Tests | ||||||||||
| Competences | (*) Class hours |
Hours outside the classroom |
(**) Total hours | |||||||
| Introductory activities |
|
1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Lecture |
|
15 | 17 | 32 | ||||||
| Presentations / oral communications |
|
2 | 16 | 18 | ||||||
| Debates |
|
4 | 12 | 16 | ||||||
| Personal attention |
|
2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Extended-answer tests |
|
2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| (*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher. (**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. | ||||||||||
| Methodologies |
| Description | |
| Introductory activities | Introduction to the subject and the evaluation system. |
| Lecture | Exposure of the contents of the subject by the teacher. |
| Presentations / oral communications | Presentation of an essay by students. |
| Debates | Debate on specific topics based on the contents of the subject and the essays of the students. |
| Personal attention | Students can ask the teacher about the problems, the essays and other contents of the subject. |
| Personalized attention |
| Description |
| During office hours students can resolve their doubts regarding the course contents. |
| Assessment |
| Methodologies | Competences | Description | Weight | ||||
| Presentations / oral communications |
|
Students have to deliver an assay on a topic related to the course and present it in class | 40% | ||||
| Debates |
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Sudents have to organize and participate in a debate related to the presentations. | 10% | ||||
| Extended-answer tests |
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Students have to realize a final exam. | 50% | ||||
| Others |
| Other comments and second exam session | |||
| Sources of information |
| Basic |
Jean Hindriks and Gareth D. Myles, Intermediate Public Economics, 1st, 2006
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st century, 1st, 2014 |
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| Complementary | |||||||||
| Recommendations |
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.