Teacher: Régis Renault

Office: A106, Chênes 1, Cergy.

Tel: 01 34 25 72 28

E-mail : regis.renault@cyu.fr

Web page : https://sites.google.com/site/homepageofregisrenault/

Course outline

Chapter 1 Public goods, private goods, competition and welfare (Gruber, chapters 2, 5 (section 5.2) and 7). Slides

Chapter 2 Cost benefit analysis (Gruber, chapter 8). Slides

Chapter 3 Tax incidence and the deadweight loss of a tax (Gruber, chapter 18, 19 et 20).Slides

Chapter 4 Income taxation (Gruber, chapters 20 to 24)

Chapter 5  Environmental policy (Gruber, chapters 5 and 6)

Presentations

Each presentation is prepared by two or three students and lasts 10 minutes. Slides should be written in English although you may choose to speak in French if you are more comfortable.  You should send the list of your references by e-mail to me before the presentation date.

1. Is scientific research a public good? As a result, what should be the role of the public and private sector? October 4. Fabroud, Marcel 

2.   Should urban road tolls be more widespread? October 11. Princzing, Vincini,  Raikhovski.

3.   Why do we need an education policy? October 18. Turbelin, Tyaba, Malin-Melo 

4.   Should wealth be taxed more heavily? October 25. Fabroud, Marcel 

5.   Should corporate taxation be eliminated? November 8. Doll, Onimus 

6.   Is there a tradeoff between environmental policy and social fairness? November 8. Bidet, Mazuy. 

7.  Tax evasion. November 8.

8.   Cost efficiency and cost benefit analysis of climate change policies. November 15. Bidet, Mazuy. 

9.   How generous should helth insurance be towards patients and providers? November 15. Princzing, Vincini, Raikhovski. 

10. How can welfare programs help the poor? November 22. Turbelin, Tyaba, Malin-Melo 

11. How long should unemploymet benefits last? November 22.

12. GDPR. November 22. Doll, Onimus . 

Bibliograp

Gruber Jonathan : « Public Finance and Public Policy » 4ème edition, Worth

- Saez Emmanuel : « Undergraduate Public Economics », course taught at UC Berkeley, slides available at http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/course131/course131.html.

- « Economie publique » 3rd year course in the bachelor's program at CY Cergy Paris Université.

- Mankiw N. Gregory « Priciples of economics » 7th edition. Worth

Documents

Public economics course: 3rd year in hte bachelor's program (Université Paris-Dauphine, spring 2015): in French.

Chapitre 1

Chapitre 2

Chapitre 3

Chapitre 4

Chapitre 5