B.B.A. in Economics: Public Finance Concentration

This concentration is available for Economics majors. For this concentration, students must complete the requirements for a major in Economics, with 9 of the 15 additional upper-division hours in Economics coming from the following courses:

ECON 3430 Public Finance. Three credits. (Same as FIN 3430.) Prerequisites: ECON 2410, 2420; junior standing. Economic foundations of federal tax and expenditure policies. Current issues in federal budget policy. Policy applications illustrating key concepts such as public goods, externalities, income distribution, tax incidence, tax equity, and allocative efficiency. Intergovernmental fiscal relations.

ECON 4310 Problems in Government Finance. Three credits. (Same as FIN 4310). Prerequisites: ECON 2410, 2420. Current issues in taxation, theory of income taxation, consumption taxes, property and wealth taxes. Advanced treatment of tax incidence, tax efficiency, income distribution, fiscal federalism, and state and local budget issues.

ECON 4400 Business and Government. Three credits. Prerequisites: ECON 2420; junior standing. The economics of public policy toward private business in the U.S. Many dimensions including economic theory, history, philosophical foundations of government, economic statistics, as well as applications of those disciplines to a wide variety of policy issues.

ECON 4500 Urban and Regional Economics. Three credits. Prerequisites: ECON 2410, 2420. Economic problems of urban communities, including problems resulting from population shifts to suburbia; urban planning; land utilization; revenue structures; urban renewal transportation; problems of minority and poverty groups.