Systems Competition (PhD + AMC)

[ Course | Course Outline | Core References | Old Exams]

• Course 
  
  The course is part of the PhD programme of the Munich Graduate School of Economics. It is open to students of the Master programme (Advanced Master Class).

   

  Lecturers	PD Dr. Volker Meier	Dr. Michael Stimmelmayr
  Phone:	089 9224 3071	089 2180 2087

   

  Time:	Wednesday,    6.00 - 7.30 p.m.	Thursday,    8.30-10.00 a.m.
  Location:	Ludwigstr. 28/RG,     024 CIP Raum	Ludwigstr. 28/RG,     024 CIP Raum
  Start:	October 17, 2007
  Exam:	February 12, 2008    9:00 - 11:00    024 CIP Raum

   

• Course Outline

The course “Systems Competition’’ deals with competition between states in many different areas of the economy, such as government expenditure, environmental regulation, labour standards, quality standards, and banking regulation. Both theoretical and empirical aspects of the problems will be discussed. The book by H.-W. Sinn (2003) will be the core reference for the course. At various points of the course the book will be augmented by supplementary material.

Contents

1.      Introduction

2.      Tax Competition

3.      Redistribution and Mobility

4.      Social Dumping

5.      Environmental Regulation

6.      Competition of Product Standards

7.      Banking Regulation

8.      Competition of Competition Rules

• Core References
  
  Hans-Werner Sinn, The New Systems Competition, Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 2003.

• Lecture Notes and Other Literature

 Chapter 1: Introduction

Date	Lecture Notes
17.10.2007	Syllabus
17.10.2007	Chapter 1.1: Introduction
18.10.2007	Chapter 1.2: Taxation of Mobile Capital

Compulsory reading:

• Devereux, M.P., R. Griffith, and A. Klemm, 2002: “Corporate Income Tax Reforms and International Tax Competition.” Economic Policy, October, 451-495.

• OECD Economic Outlook 2003, Paris. Chapter 6 [pdf], chapter  7 [pdf], and chapter 8 [pdf]

• Sinn, H.W., 2003: The New Systems Competition, Yrjö-Jahnsson Lectures, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Chapter 1.

Chapter 2: Tax Competition

Date	Lecture Notes
24.10.2007	Chapter 2.1: Capital Tax Competition
25.10.2007	Chapter 2.2: Tax Competition and Public Infrastructure, Part I
31.10.2007	Chapter 2.2: Tax Competition and Public Infrastructure, Part II
01.11.2007	public holiday - no lecture
07.11.2007	Chapter 2.2 continued Chapter6_1_Slides
08.11.2007	Assignments on Tax Competition

Compulsory reading:

• Sinn, H.W., 2003: The New Systems Competition, Yrjö-Jahnsson Lectures, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Chapter 2.

• Zodrow, G.R. and P. Mieszkowski, 1986: “Pigou, Tiebout, Property Taxation, and the Underprovision of Local Public Goods.” Journal of Urban Economics 19, 356-370.

Chapter 5: Ecological Dumping

Date	Lecture Notes
6.12.2007	Chapter 5.1: Spillovers & Pigovian Taxes
12.12.2007	Chapter 5.2: Certificates and Rent Dissipation
13.12.2007	Chapter 5.2 continued

Compulsory reading:

• Sinn, H.W., 2003: The New Systems Competition, Yrjö-Jahnsson Lectures, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Chapter 5.

• Burniaux, J.-M. (1998): "How Important Is Market Power in Achieving Kyoto? An Assessment Based on the GREEN Model". In OECD (ed.),Economic Modelling of Climate Change. Paris.

• (Borregaard, N., F. Convery, R. Katz (2001):"Applying trading in developing countries: The Chilean experience", unpublished.)

Chapter 6: Product Standards

Date	Lecture Notes
19.12.2007	Chapter 6: The Competition of Product Standards
9.01.2008	Chapter 6 continued
10.01.2008

Compulsory reading:

• Sinn, H.W., 2003: The New Systems Competition, Yrjö-Jahnsson Lectures, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Chapter 6.