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 | Free Elective |
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 |
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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 | |
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Major Area Courses | |
Supportive Courses | X |
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 | Combines and applies the knowledge of their undergraduate field with business administration knowledge. | |||||
2 | Acquires knowledge about the structure and functioning of the financial system and each financial institution. | |||||
3 | Possesses knowledge of regulations and legislation related to financial institutions. | |||||
4 | Identifies the risks faced by different financial institutions and acquires the ability to develop basic solutions. | |||||
5 | Acquires knowledge of basic investment strategies. | |||||
6 | Gains knowledge of research methods and techniques and applies them. | |||||
7 | Acquires knowledge about the institutional characteristics of emerging and developed markets, as well as investment strategies for bonds, stocks, and derivative products in these markets. | |||||
8 | Acquires knowledge about the fundamentals, processes, and contributions of capital and securities markets to the financial system. | |||||
9 | Conveys business-related information using effective verbal, written, and visual communication methods. | |||||
10 | Develops awareness of professional ethics, environmental sensitivity, sustainability, social responsibility, and cultural, social, and universal values. | |||||
11 | Works effectively with different disciplines or multicultural teams, takes responsibility, conducts risk analysis, adapts to change, thinks critically, and takes initiative in problem-solving. | |||||
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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 |