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2023 - Mdef - 612 - 1 4
2023 - Mdef - 612 - 1 4
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Outline
Outline
Session Overview
Session Outline
Session Outline
Session Outline
Redistributive role
The aim is to foster equity by shifting resources from some
groups in society to others and/or by changing initial
endowments through:
Redistributive role
The aim is to foster equity by shifting resources from some
groups in society to others and/or by changing initial
endowments through:
Monetary transfers (such as welfare benets to support the
income of the poor or the unemployed)
Redistributive role
The aim is to foster equity by shifting resources from some
groups in society to others and/or by changing initial
endowments through:
Monetary transfers (such as welfare benets to support the
income of the poor or the unemployed)
Redistributive role
The aim is to foster equity by shifting resources from some
groups in society to others and/or by changing initial
endowments through:
Monetary transfers (such as welfare benets to support the
income of the poor or the unemployed)
Stabilization role
Smoothing over the business cycle and external shocks,
supporting full employment and controlling ination through:
Stabilization role
Smoothing over the business cycle and external shocks,
supporting full employment and controlling ination through:
Business Cycle is the uctuation of economic activities around
the long-run growth path of an economy(the expansion and
contraction of real GDP over time).
Fiscal policy (transfers and taxation, automatic stabilizers,
public expenditures)
Stabilization role
Smoothing over the business cycle and external shocks,
supporting full employment and controlling ination through:
Business Cycle is the uctuation of economic activities around
the long-run growth path of an economy(the expansion and
contraction of real GDP over time).
Fiscal policy (transfers and taxation, automatic stabilizers,
public expenditures)
Eciency:
What is produced, how it is produced and how much it is
produced (public vs private goods/services): given available
resources make the pie as large as possible
Eciency:
What is produced, how it is produced and how much it is
produced (public vs private goods/services): given available
resources make the pie as large as possible
Equity
For whom it should be produced and who should pay for it:
distribute the pie in the most equitable way
Eciency:
What is produced, how it is produced and how much it is
produced (public vs private goods/services): given available
resources make the pie as large as possible
Equity
For whom it should be produced and who should pay for it:
distribute the pie in the most equitable way
Trade os:
an ecient outcome could be not equitable
an equitable outcome could be inecient
Production theory
Production theory
Big Themes
Big Themes
Big Themes
Big Themes
Public expenditure
Big Themes
Public expenditure
Taxation
Big Themes
Public expenditure
Taxation
Big Themes
Public expenditure
Taxation