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SoSe 23: Master's programmes

Master Public Economics (ab WiSe 22/23)

0353c_MA120

  • Academic Practice

    0258eA1.4

    learning objectives:
    Students will be enabled to present their own research results in a scientific manner and to represent them to a critical professional audience. They will become familiar with common presentation and discussion practices in economics research work. They will be able to present their own methodological approaches for discussion and critically question conclusions derived from their own research. The aim here is the subsequent processing of critical-constructive contributions in their own research work.

    course content:
    Current research questions in topics of theoretical and empirical economics.

    language of instruction:
    English

    workload
    180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every semester

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    • 10143951 Colloquium
      Academic Practice (C) (Natalia Danzer, Dieter Nautz)
      Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
      Location: 202 Sitzungsraum / Kaminzimmer (Boltzmannstr. 16-20)
    • 33601a Colloquium
      Research Colloquium Economy of Latin America (Barbara Fritz)
      Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
      Location: K02 Seminarraum (Keller), Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197 Berlin

  • Applied Microeconometrics

    0353cA1.3

    learning objectives:
     Students are familiar with approaches and methods for analyzing the individual behavior of individuals, private households and firms using microdata (cross-sectional and panel data), as used in empirical finance, labor market and industrial economics and quantitative business administration, among others, and are able to apply them. They are able to analyze and critically discuss these approaches and methods and to interpret estimation results in a well-founded manner. Likewise, relevant methods can be applied in independent investigations.

    course content:
     Modern, advanced methods of microeconometrics with a focus on application-related problems and independent application of corresponding procedures.

    language of instruction:
     English

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every other semester

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    • 10173401 Lecture
      Applied Microeconometrics (V) (Natalia Danzer)
      Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
      Location: Hs 108 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)
    • 10173402 Practice seminar
      Applied Microeconometrics (Ü) (Denise Barth)
      Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
      Location: Hs 104 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)

  • Optimal Taxation

    0353cA1.4

    learning objectives:
     Students will have a deeper understanding of how taxes work and of the conflicting objectives of taxation within which national and international tax policy takes place. They are in possession of the tax-theoretical methodological tools to be able to participate in tax-theoretical and tax-policy discourses in a qualified manner, to assess tax-policy proposals or to develop such proposals.

    course content:
     Economic foundations of taxation, such as optimal tax theory, tax incidence analysis, additional burden of taxation, tax design and tax reform, trade-off between efficiency and distribution, theory of taxation of externalities.

    language of instruction:
     English

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every other semester

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    • 10173501 Lecture
      Optimal Taxation (V) (Ulrich Schneider, Giacomo Corneo)
      Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
      Location: Mo Hs 104 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)
    • 10173502 Practice seminar
      Optimal Taxation (Ü) (Ulrich Schneider)
      Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-27)
      Location: Hs 102 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)

  • International Public Economics

    0353cA1.5

    learning objectives:
     Students are familiar with the economic analysis of tax policy decisions in the context of open economies, national and international institutions, internationally operating firms and internationally mobile factors of production. They are able to apply different economic methods and models to various fiscal policy issues, in particular with regard to European integration, globalization issues, strategic aspects of tax competition and trade policy, and to derive fiscal policy recommendations from them. They can identify international tax conflicts, analyze their impact and develop reform options.

    course content:
     Fiscal models of international interdependence of economies, including federalism, strategic aspects of taxation with respect to tax competition, tax coordination and tax harmonization, economics of international negotiations, international aspects of consumption and factor income taxation, customs and trade policy issues, international aspects of resource taxation, international public goods.

    language of instruction:
     English

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every other semester

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    • 10173601 Lecture
      International Public Economics (V) (Kai Andreas Konrad)
      Schedule: Mo 10:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
      Location: Hs 104a Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)
    • 10173602 Practice seminar
      International Public Economics (Ü) (Tom Günther)
      Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00, Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
      Location: Di Hs 102 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21), Di Hs 103 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21), Di Hs 108 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21), Mi Hs 102 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21), Mi Hs 108 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)
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