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Module number (link to module description)	Module title	Module coordinator	ECTS credits for module

Course no.: Exam no.:	82-021-VWLECO15-S-VL-0716.20192.001
Course title: Exam title:	Political Economy
Kategorie:	Lecture
Language of lesson:	Englisch
Date:	10/17/2019 - 12/19/2019
Organizer:	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lecturer: Examiner:	Langenmayr, Dominika / Krug, Philipp
Exam type:	in-semester examination
Exam mode:	Klausur
Max. number of participants:	0 unlimited
Type of studies:
Learning objectives:	Upon completion of the course, the students understand the background of political decisions.  The students are able to apply economic methods to the political context.  The students know how to apply economic reasoning to different topics, including non- economic topics.
Content/topics:	Politics from an Economic Perspective  Direct Democracy and Majority Voting • Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem • Median Voter Theorem • Alternative Voting Systems  Partisan Politics  The Paradox of Voting  Agents in the Political Process  Lobbies and Interest Groups  Bureaucracy  Rent -Seeking  Political Agency  Economic Policy as a Result of the Political Process  Redistribution as a political decision  Privatisation  Competition Policy  Economic Theory of Federalism  Fiscal Competition and Fiscal Federalism  Fiscal Equalisation Schemes
Recommended prerequisites:	 Microeconomics I is recommended
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Literature:	Mueller, Dennis C., 2003, Public Choice III, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.  Besley, Tim, 2007, Principled Agents?: The Political Economy of Good Government, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.  Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido, 2000, Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy, Cambridge (MA): MIT Press.  Further readings will be announced in the course
Teaching and learning formats/course types:	Vorlesung Übung
Registration from… to:	9/24/2019 -
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Scheduled event/examination dates

Date / Time	Room	Lecturer
Thu 17.10.2019 12:00 - 4:00 PM	HB-106	Krug, Philipp Langenmayr, Dominika
Thu 24.10.2019 12:00 - 4:00 PM	HB-106	Krug, Philipp Langenmayr, Dominika
Thu 31.10.2019 12:00 - 4:00 PM	HB-106	Krug, Philipp Langenmayr, Dominika
Thu 07.11.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM	HB-106	Krug, Philipp Langenmayr, Dominika
Thu 14.11.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM	HB-106	Krug, Philipp Langenmayr, Dominika
Thu 21.11.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM	HB-106	Krug, Philipp Langenmayr, Dominika
Thu 28.11.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM	HB-106	Krug, Philipp Langenmayr, Dominika
Thu 05.12.2019 12:00 - 4:00 PM	HB-106	Krug, Philipp Langenmayr, Dominika
Thu 12.12.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM	HB-106	Krug, Philipp Langenmayr, Dominika