The lab of public finance and administration in School of Public Economics and Administration was facilitated in December 2006. The main purpose of the lab is to meet the needs of the teaching activities and experiments of related courses (experiments of the base courses will be undertaken in the School’s Educational Technology Center), to provide well-rounded support to the research work for teachers, and to assist other specialties’ needs for conducting experiments. More detailed information about the lab is as follow:
1. Location and housing condition of the lab
Address: Room 505, the Phoenix Building, 111 Wuchuan Road, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Acreage: About 50 meter squares.
2. Functions
GIS Lab, CGE Lab, Public Taxation Simulation Lab, Social Survey Lab.
3. Facilities and equipment
Service-ability rate: 98%
Total cost of the facilities: around 5000,000 CNY
The main hardware:
1. Courses and Software
More commonly used statistical software also includes SPSS, EVIEWS, MATLAB, and STAT, etc.
1. Teaching and experimenting tasks currently undertaking by the lab:
1). GIS Course - teaching and experiments
2). CGE Course teaching and experiments
3). Project Cost Estimation course teaching and experiments
4). Research methods.
2. Number of experiment project : 1
3. The usage of internet experimenting and teaching resources
The course-related resourced are share online. Through logging in the lab’s network, which students can view the details about experiments and read related course materials.