公共經濟學三
楊建成
電話：2782-2791轉311
Email:ccyang@econ.sinica.edu.tw


本課程介紹政治經濟學(Political Economics)，這門學問可瞭解成以經濟學方法論研究政治議題。
底下是暫訂的Reading list：

1. Background
楊建成，2004，公共選擇（手稿）
Merlo, 2006, Whither political economy? Theories, facts and issues, mimeo.


2. Workhorse models
Persson & Tabellini, 2000（PT2000）, Political economics： explaining economic policy, Chapter 2, MIT Press.
Baron, 1994, Electoral competition with informed and uniformed voters, American Political Science Review 88, 33-47.
Grossman & Helpman, 1994, Protection for sale, American Economic Review 84, 833-850.
Baron & Ferejohn, 1989, Bargaining in legislatures, American Political Science Review 83, 1181-1206.
Besley & Coate, 1997, An economic model of representative democracy, Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, 85-114.
Palfrey & Rosenthal, 1985, Voters participation and strategic uncertainty, American Political Science Review 79, 62-78.
Ferejohn, 1986, Incumbent performance and electoral control, Public Choice 50, 5-26.


3. Institutions
Persson & Tabellini, 2004, Constitutions and economic policy, Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, 75-98.
Besley & Case, 2003, Political institutions and policy choices: evidence from the United States, Journal of Economic Literature 41, 7-73.
Acemoglu, Johnson &Robinson, 2005, Institutions as the fundamental cause of long-run growth, in Aghion and Durlaub, eds., Handbook of Economic Growth.

Glaeser, et al., 2004, Do institutions cause growth? Journal of Economic Growth 9, 271-303.



4. Applications
a. Legislative bargaining
Diermeier & Merlo, 2000, Government turnover in parliamentary democracy, Journal of Economic Theory 94, 46-79.
Baron & Diermeier, 2001, Elections, government, and parliaments in proportional representation systems, Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, 933-967.
b. Capital taxation and public debt.
PT2000, Chapters 12-13.
c. Monetary politics
PT2000, Chapters 15-18.