ECTS - Financial Economics
Financial Economics (ECON512) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Financial Economics | ECON512 | General Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | Turkish |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Social Sciences Master's Degree |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | The goal of the course is to let the student comprehend the main principles and institurions of the financial markets. AMong the topics to be covered are: the mechanism and working principles of the financial system, financial tools, and valuation (stocks, bond, forward, futures, options) time value of money, risk managemnet,financing alternative,s capital budgeting, international finance, economic crises, real economy, macroeconomic activities, monetary policy, banking sector relations, modern portfolio management. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Functions and structure of the financial system, the role and function of financial instruments, the elementary valuation of financial instruments, primarily stocks, bonds, futures, and options, the role of risk and how markets manage and control risk, issues in corporate finance and capital budgeting, issues in international finance and the inter |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Financial Economics and Financial Markets (Money and Capital markets) | 1-12 |
| 2 | Stocks- Pricing of bonds-Efficient markets hypothesis | 13-45 |
| 3 | Time value of money (interest rate) | 47-100 |
| 4 | Cost of Capital | 101-114 |
| 5 | BAnking System and Money Creation Process of the Banks | 115-136 |
| 6 | Banking: Loans, Deposits, Management and Performance Evaluation | 137-195 |
| 7 | The Central Bank and Monetary Policy-REserves | 196-260 |
| 8 | Midterm exam | |
| 9 | Foreign Exchange Markets, Foreign exchange rate | 267-300 |
| 10 | Exchange Rate regimes, and the Turkish case | 300-371 |
| 11 | Foreign Trade and Foreign Exchange Rate Relationship | 372-401 |
| 12 | Imposibble Trinity | 402-412 |
| 13 | Risk and Risk Management ( Forward, Futures, Opsiyon, Swap ) | 413-439 |
| 14 | Financing Sources_ Economic Crisis | 440-469 |
| 15 | Modern Portfolio Management | 470-500 |
| 16 | Final Exam |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets”, Frederic S.Mishkins, Pearson, 2013 |
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| Other Sources | 2. Ders Notları |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 1 | 5 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | 1 | 10 |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 55 |
| Toplam | 4 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 45 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 55 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Have advanced level of knowledge about the field of Public Finance-Tax in order to gain practical gains. | |||||
| 2 | He/she can identify the issues related to Finance-Tax area by considering them within the framework of a method and report and evaluate them from an analytical point of view. | |||||
| 3 | Able to understand, interpret and analyze economic and financial events, equipped with knowledge of certain disciplines, especially economics, business and law | |||||
| 4 | Develops policies and strategies for the solution of problems by establishing the cause-effect relationship related to financial and economic problems through theoretical information and current discussions, by making financial analyzes. | |||||
| 5 | By establishing the relationship of public financial management and budget theory with public policies, he/she makes strong budget analysis, develops analyzes on public finance and establishes the policy implementation relationship. | |||||
| 6 | Understanding tax theory, learning the legal background, following the developments and gaining a professional competence in tax matters effectively develop it. | |||||
| 7 | Have knowledge of accounting systems in private and public institutions and businesses, analyze and interpret the financial and financial structure of businesses with the knowledge and competence gained. | |||||
| 8 | Gain knowledge of macroeconomic structure and growth theory, including theoretical and country examples, and evaluate economic developments from a theoretical perspective. | |||||
| 9 | Can use foreign language in financial and economic fields, follow international literature, communicate on professional issues. | |||||
| 10 | By using information technologies, digital developments and common software, it benefits from technological developments in studies specific to its field. | |||||
| 11 | It uses qualitative and quantitative methods necessary for the analysis of economic, financial, social and institutional events. | |||||
| 12 | While fulfilling its academic and professional responsibilities, the United Nations develops an approach that respects sustainable development goals, fundamental freedoms, disadvantaged groups, the environment, cultural and moral values. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 4 | 64 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Total Workload | 117 | ||