WELFARE STATE, REGULATIONS AND ENVIRONMENT

Academic year
2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
WELFARE STATE, REGULATIONS AND ENVIRONMENT
Course code
EM1302 (AF:385973 AR:214018)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
SECS-P/01
Period
1st Term
Course year
1
The course is among those characterizing the Master's Degree Programme in MANAGEMENT - ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE.
This course focuses on the role of the government in the economy. The focus will be on exploring the reasons behind government intervention and welfare institutions.
The role of the welfare state is never been more important than during a pandemic. Special emphasis is on current policy issues such as health care policy, the regulation of pharmaceuticals markets, and pandemic recovery policies, in an international perspective.
Students are expected to be comfortable with the material covered in introductory and intermediate microeconomics courses. Some familiarity with
statistics and exposure to regression analysis are helpful.
1. Role of Government in the Economy
2. Welfare State
Application: Health, Health Insurance and Healthcare
3. Regulation of Markets
Application: Pharmaceuticals and vaccine markets
4. Pandemic Recovery policies
Application: Next Generation EU
Application: Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan
Nicholas Barr, 2020. The Economics of the Welfare State, 6th Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jonathan Gruber, 2019. Public Finance and Public Policy, 6th Edition. New York: Worth Publishers.

W. Kip Viscusi, Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. and David E. M. Sappington, 2018. Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, 5th Edition, Cambdge, MA, MIT Press.

Additional readings will be made available on moodle.
Written exam (exercises and open-ended questions).
Students attending the course will be given the opportunity of being partly assessed through class presentations.
The course mostly follows a conventional teaching approach, combined with active and flipped learning activities.
English
For any course-related information, students should trust only the course website on moodle (password provided in class or during office hours).
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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Goal 3: good health and well-being
Goal 4: quality education
This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 14/09/2022