Diplomatura en Ciències Empresarials (3011)

Teoria del Benestar(10086) 

Tema 1. Competitive equilibrium and Pareto optimum. The first and the second welfare theorems.

Tema 2. Partial equilibrium: consumer surplus, competitive equilibrium, and Pareto optium.

Tema 3. Measurement of inequality: Lorentz curves, Dalton's principle of transfers. The Gini index and other indeces.

Tema 4. Social Welfare functions.

Tema 5. Taxation: goals of the government, and how to achieve them.

The course discusses various criteria of efficiency and equity, and analyses the relationships between these critiria, competitive equilibrium, and taxation policies.