Note for Finnish student: Tämä kurssi on vapaaehtoinen! Se ei kuulu Kunnallistalouden tutkintorakenteeseen, eikä sillä voi korvata muita Kunnallistalouden opintoja.

After the course, the students should know about alternative approaches to provide Public Services, the traditional integrated model and different forms of markets. The student learns about the difficulties to apply a market system to Public Services and to recognize advantages and disadvantages of various models. Through that, the participant gets finally an understanding of efficiency evaluation problems.

Contents: - pre-reading material
               - lectures (14 h)
               - project work