AØKK08089U Political Economics
Elective at MSc in Economics
Tentative:
The course provides a broad overview of modern political economics. It deals with the interaction of politics and economics, using formal game-theoretic models to understand the implications for economic policy of various political settings and institutions. The course relates the theoretical predictions to real world examples and systematic empirical finding.
Tentative:
In the process of the course the student shall acquire the knowledge about the basic and more advanced theoretical models of different aspects of political-economic process as well as ways and results of empirical assessment of these models. Specifically, the student shall acquire knowledge about the tools of modeling and empirical results on:
- Electoral competition and voter behavior
- Partisan politics and political agency
- Redistributive aspects of politics
- Dynamic policy problems such as politics of public debt and political budget cycles
- Impact of different political institutions on economic policy
- Sources of differences in political preferences
- Politics and the media
To obtain the highest grade, the students should, in a convincing way, be able to: 1) apply methods and results from the list of topics above to analyze variations and extensions on these and closely related topics within political economics; 2) discuss assumptions and methods of same; and (3) place and discuss the topics within both a Danish and international practical and empirical context at the level corresponding to that presented in class.
Tentative:
The main text for the course is the textbook “Political Economics” by Persson and Tabellini, 2002.
Supplemented by selected journal articles and lecture notes/slides.
The course consists of 2 hours of classes (lectures) every week and 2x2 hours every second week for 14 weeks.
For enrolled students please find more information of courses, schedule, rules etc at
https://intranet.ku.dk/economics_ma/courses/Pages/default.aspx
Timetable and classroom:
For time and classroom please press the link under "Se skema" (See schedule) at the right side of this page (15E means 2015 Efterår (Autumn))
- Category
- Hours
- Exam
- 3
- Lectures
- 42
- Preparation
- 161
- Total
- 206
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written examination, 3 hours under invigilationIndividual written closed-book exam at the computers of Copenhagen University
- Aid
- Without aids
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
100 % censorship
- Exam period
The exam takes place 13 January 2016 at Peter Bangs Vej 36. 2000 Frederiksberg http://pc-eksamen.ku.dk/pc_exam
For enrolled students more information about examination, exam/re-sit, rules etc. is available at the student intranet for Examination (English) and student intranet for Examination (KA-Danish).- Re-exam
Same as the ordinary exam. But if only a few students have registered for the re-exam, the exam might change to an oral exam. This means that the examination date also will change.
Criteria for exam assesment
The student must in a satisfactory way demonstrate that he/she has mastered the learning outcome of the course.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- AØKK08089U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- Autumn (week 36-50)
- Continuing and further education
- Price
320 DKK per ECTS
- Study board
- Department of Economics, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Economics
Course responsibles
- Ferran Elias Moreno (3-6c6b73466b69757434717b346a71)