Economia e Finanza Pubblica

Public Economics

The Bolkeinstain directive on “services in the internal market” leaves out the health care services (HCS). Nonetheless a necessary condition to favour internal market and ensure economic and social progress in Europe is to grant people of Europe with the same access to public sector HCS. This latter is a key instrument for an efficiently functioning  “single market” ensuring actual mobility within the EU. The aim of the Module is to study the actual European health care market and discuss the hypothesis of a European right of citizenship with reference to HCS. To this extent the European Health Insurance Card makes it easier for people from EU to access HCS in other member states but it has to be improved and developed. The Module provides deeper understanding of the health market and stimulates reflection in European integration studies at a university level. The hypothesis for a fully coordinated European Health System will be investigated in great detail high-lightening the connected law and economic implications. The goal is to enhance, by lectures and seminars, the knowledge and awareness among students and academics about issues relating to European integration..

TEACHING ACTIVITY
1. European Union and tiers of government (lectures and seminars)
Description: Economic theory of different tiers of government: the optimal federalism and the distribution of functions. Fiscal federalism in the European Union. Sorting the functions of government within the fiscal hierarchy. Fiscal and political federalism. The modeling dimensions. Mobility and redistribution. The role of grants in aid in a federalist system of governments. Harmonisation of economic and fiscal policies within Europe. Externalities and Public Goods in a Federal Framework. Policy Simulations in the European Union using a Applied Economic General Equilibrium approach.
Impact: This part is fundamental to the comprehension of people ability to move in response to government policies. Attendants will be able to cope with the important question: is Federalism suitable to produce a social welfare optimum? The study of the economic aspects connected to: fiscal federalism, local provision of public goods, tiers of governments, mobility models, economic environment, information set available to citizens within a locality cannot be ignored if the student wish at deepening its comprehension of  Europe. Health services could be regarded as locally provided public goods and a full European integration requires a set of rules accepted at any government level. The course will offer students with a full, theoretical and practical, comprehension of the way a European health integration could be realized