Financial Economics (ECON426) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Financial Economics ECON426 General Elective 3 0 0 3 6
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language English
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Brain Storming.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Prof. Dr. Doğan Cansızlar
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The objective of this course is to become familiar with the basic financial economic concepts.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • to be able to explain the role and function of financial instruments
  • to be able to give examples to financial instruments
  • to be able to describe the relationship between the real economy and financial markets
Course Content Functions and structure of the financial system, financial instruments, the risk management and control, issues in corporate finance and capital budgeting, the real economy and the financial markets: macroeconomic activity and financial markets; monetary policy and financial markets; banking sector and the financial markets.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 An Overview of the Financial System. What Is Money? Mishkins, pp.44-94
2 Understanding Interest Rates Mishkins, pp.108-130
3 Stock Market, Theory of Rational Expectations, Efficient Markets Hypothesis Mishkin, pp.183-203
4 An Economic Analysis of Financial Structure Mishkins, pp.204-227
5 Financial Crises I Mishkins, pp.227-244
6 Financial Crises II Mishkins, pp.244-264
7 Banking and the Management of Financial Institutions Mishkins, pp.265-294
8 Midterm Exam
9 Economic Analysis of Financial Regulation Mishkins, pp.294-320
10 Banking Industry: Structure and Competition Mishkins, pp.321-350
11 Nonbank Finance Ders Notları
12 Central Banks and the Federal Reserve System Mishkins, pp.354-379
13 The Foreign Exchange Market Mishkins, pp.476-500
14 The International Financial System Mishkins, pp.500-534
15 General Review
16 Final Exam

Sources

Course Book 1. “The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets”, FredericS. Mishkins, Pearson, 2013

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 40
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 60
Toplam 2 100
Percentage of Semester Work 40
Percentage of Final Work 60
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
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
1 2 3 4 5
1 Has the ability to apply scientific knowledge gained in the undergraduate education and to expand and extend knowledge in the same or in a different area
2 Can apply gained knowledge and problem solving abilities in inter-disciplinary research
3 Has the ability to work independently within research area, to state the problem, to develop solution techniques, to solve the problem, to evaluate the obtained results and to apply them when necessary
4 Takes responsibility individually and as a team member to improve systematic approaches to produce solutions in unexpected complicated situations related to the area of study
5 Can develop strategies, implement plans and principles on the area of study and can evaluate obtained results within the framework
6 Can develop and extend the knowledge in the area and to use them with scientific, social and ethical responsibility
7 Has the ability to follow recent developments within the area of research, to support research with scientific arguments and data, to communicate the information on the area of expertise in a systematically by means of written report and oral/visual presentation
8 To have an oral and written communication ability in at least one of the common foreign languages ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B2)
9 Has software and hardware knowledge in the area of expertise, and has proficient information and communication technology knowledge
10 Follows scientific, cultural, and ethical criteria in collecting, interpreting and announcing data in the research area and has the ability to teach.
11 Has professional ethical consciousness and responsibility which takes into account the universal and social dimensions in the process of data collection, interpretation, implementation and declaration of results in mathematics and its applications.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 14 7 98
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury
Total Workload 146