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公共经济学高级专题

（Advanced Topics in Public Economics）

欢迎选修全英文授课《公共经济学高级专题》--国际金融机构知名专家从全球视角阐释政府作用以及债务可持续性问题

1课程信息

任课教师：Ludger Schuknecht（陆书泽）
授课语言：英文
学分：1学分
总学时：16小时
修读对象：硕博研究生
上课时间：每周一11-12节
上课地点：承泽园245教室

2课程简介

This course is directed at Master or advanced Bachelor students as a way of learning about the role of the state in the economy in a manner that combines theoretical and empirical learning with practical experiences, case studies, debates and most of all much student engagement.

3参考书

Ludger Schuknecht (2020) Public Spending and the Role of the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ludger Schuknecht (2022) Debt Sustainability—A Global Perspective. Forthcoming in: Cambridge Elements of International Economics (pdf will be provided if the study is not out before the start of the semester)

4教学方式

The course would start with 1 or 2 lecture sessions with interactive discussions before turning to more mixed formats with lecture elements, student presentations and student discussions.

Student contributions would, therefore, include presentations (academic, to policy makers, in panels, or other formats), classroom participation plus paper/examen paper. This should be discussed after the first and second session.

Enrolment is limited to 25 students to allow for sufficient interaction.

5主要内容及对应学时

Objective: convey a sound economic and policy understanding regarding the role of the state and public expenditure. This includes theoretical and empirical concepts and extensive applications and policy discussion on the history of public spending, government “performance” and reform, fiscal sustainability and fiscal risks, financing constraints for government, and the role of fiscal rules from a comparative international perspective.

1. The role of the state and public expenditure, government performance and trust, the history and composition of spending.

Applications: trust, public spending and performance measurement, a comparative perspective on countries and country groups, policy discussion

2. Government performance and efficiency: concepts, indicators and measurement, country comparisons and case studies, policy discussion.

Applications: country comparisons, case studies (possibly student presenta）

老师介绍

陆书泽 博士

亚投行副行长兼秘书长

陆书泽博士主要负责亚投行与其成员、理事会、董事会的关系，以及包括接纳新成员和加强银行治理方面的工作。在加入亚投行之前，他曾在国家及国际层面担任重要领导职务。加入亚投行前，他曾担任新加坡国立大学李光耀公共政策学院的访问教授。在此之前，他曾担任经济合作与发展组织(OECD)副秘书长，并曾担任德国联邦财政部首席经济学家和局长。他在国际货币基金组织(IMF)和世界贸易组织(WTO)等国际金融机构都有丰富的工作经验。

在亚投行成立过程中，他还曾担任德国的首席谈判代表，参与起草了亚投行协议，这使他成为亚投行协议“设计师”之一。除此之外，陆书泽博士还曾担任二十国集团基础设施投资工作组的联合主席。他持有德国慕尼黑大学经济学士学位、美国乔治梅森大学经济学硕士以及德国康斯坦茨大学经济学博士学位和经济学特许任教资格。陆书泽博士来自德国。

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