Master’s degree in Business Administration and Corporate Law

Methods for Public Policy Evaluation

Course code

4S006192

Name of lecturers

Veronica Polin, Alessandro Sommacal

Coordinator

Veronica Polin

Number of ECTS credits allocated

6

Academic sector

SECS-P/03 - PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Language of instruction

Italian

Site

VERONA

Period

secondo semestre (lauree magistrali) dal Mar 1, 2021 al Jun 1, 2021.

Lesson timetable

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Learning outcomes

The focus of the course is on the ex ante and ex-post economic evaluation of projects/policies. Par-ticular attention will be paid to projects/policies undertaken by the public sector, or with major impacts from the societal standpoint. The discussion of the theoretical background will be carried on along with the introduction to the tech-niques typically employed to tackle typical issues in economic evaluation. Case studies from a variety of sectors will be presented. Students attending the course will be given the opportunity to work autonomously on a specific case study.

Syllabus

PART I
Ex-ante economic evalutation tecniques: typologies and objectives
Cost-benefit analysis
Ex-ante economic evaluation in Italy
Case study

PART II
Ex-post economic evalutation tecniques: typologies and objectives
" Randomized social experiment"
"Quasi-experimental" tecniques
Ex-post economic evaluation in Italy
Case study

Slides and other study materieals will be available on the e-learning page.

Assessment methods and criteria