Timur, 2010: The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton University Press. Public Finance Code FiF.KPol/A-moPO Teacher Mgr. Zsolt Gál, PhD. ECTS credits 7 weekly 4 Prerequisites Semester 1/W Assessment 10 % - Active participation 40 % - Presentation (power point) and notes (handouts) 50 % - Seminar paper (study on a chosen topic) A – 85-100 % D – 58-67 % B – 76-85 % E – 50-58 % C – 67-76 % Fx – < 50 % Presentation – One short (15-20 minutes with additional 5-10 minutes discussion) presentation should be given by each student during the course. The possible sources for presentations on various topics are listed below, but these are just to give an idea what kind of studies can help us to understand better each particular problem; so other sources are welcome too. (At the end you can find a long list of web links to various institutions and think tanks where one can find many more publications related to the course.) The students (in a power point presentation) should try to (interestingly) explain the main questions, findings, arguments and conclusions of a chosen issue while focusing on the most important questions and keeping the time limit. A few (3-5) page handout (written summary of the presentation) is required. Max. 20 points could be given for each presentation and another 10 for the quality of power point presentation. Handout – summary notes are required from each student. The notes should be prepared according to the course schedule and given (in a printed form) to the lecturer and shared with other students. They should be informative as much as possible to give an idea to other students about the problem as well as with references on useful sources. Max. 10 points could be given for each summary. Seminar – 8 to 12 page paper (without notes, references, tables and figures) is required on any of the topics in the course schedule (it could be focused more on a particular issue). The topic should be agreed by the course instructor. Try to avoid simple descriptions and write a paper focusing on sources of problems, comparisons of countries, systems, institutions etc. Asking questions, trying to answer them, arguing and
Bergh, Andreas 2011: The rise, fall and revival of a capitalist welfare state: what are the policy lessons from Sweden? IFN Working Paper No. 873, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm. Aiginger, Karl: The Swedish Economic Model, WIFO (Österreichisches Institut Für Wirtschaftsforschung) working papers No. 302, Wien 2007 Schubert, Carlos Buhigas – Martens, Hans: The Nordic A recipe for European success? European Policy Centre, EPC WORKING PAPER No.20, 2005 Munkhammar, Johnny: European Down – the social model, The Stockholm Network, Timbro Publishers, Stockholm 2005 Lindbeck, Assar: Swedish lessons for post-socialist countries, Institute For International Economic Studies - Stockholm University, Stockholm 1998 Lindbeck, Assar: Sustainable social spending, Institute For International Economic Studies - Stockholm University, Stockholm 2005 14. The link between economic freedom and prosperity and how to measure it? Fraser Institute: Economic Freedom of the World. (newest) Annual Report. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The Bank: Doing Business . The Heritage Foundation – The Wall Street Journal: Index of Economic Freedom. The Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones & Company, Inc. World Economic Forum: The Global Competitiveness Report (za posledné roky) Transparency International: Global Corruption Barometer (za posledné roky) Transparency International Slovensko: Index vnímania korupcie (za posledné roky) 15. Demographic development and its economic consequences. 16. Possible measures to alleviate the fiscal consequences of ageing. 17. Pension reform scenarios, strong and weak of different pension ‘pillars’. 18. The Slovak pension reform and its aftermath. European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Economic Policy Committee, Ageing Working Group: The 2012 Ageing Report: Economic and budgetary projections for the EU27 Member States (2010-2060). Brussels, European Commission: Paper “Confronting demographic change: a new solidarity between the generations” Mc Morrow, Kieran – Roeger, Werner: EU pension reform – An overview of the debate and an empirical assessment of the main policy reform options, EU Commission, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs Working Papers 2002