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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | He/she will be competent in evaluating basic concepts and the conceptual interrelations as well as their reflections on theoretical and practical levels. | |||||
| 2 | He/she will have the knowledge of the basic methodological approaches, methods and research technics and their implementations. | |||||
| 3 | Evaluating the contribution of public relation and advertising theories and applications to the existing/potential occasions and problems in the national and international area. | |||||
| 4 | Being aware of the ethics of public relations occupation and having the consciousness of occupational responsibility. | |||||
| 5 | Being able to plan and apply strategic communication processes in the fields of public communications, public opinion building, agenda determination, setting, orientation and managing. | |||||
| 6 | Creating the sustainable development and quality insight oriented to concepts such as; corporate communication, corporate identity, corporate culture, corporate citizenship, corporate loyalty, reputation, value, social responsibility, image management, relationship management, perception management, emotional intelligence, human resource, etc. | |||||
| 7 | To have a through knowledge of the communication methodology directed to private sector, public sector and civil society | |||||
| 8 | Having theoretical knowledge on information communication technologies, understanding its reflections in the society and using this knowledge both in theoretical and application. | |||||
| 9 | Come to conclusions by connecting and analyzing data on social sciences and using these conclusions in the field of public relations | |||||
| 10 | Reaching current information about the discipline by researching the national and international literature in the field of public relations and publicity. | |||||
| 11 | Reaching scientific results by defining the right method/techniques directed to the purpose of the research. | |||||
| 12 | Come to conclusions by connecting and analyzing data on social sciences and using these conclusions in the field of public relations. | |||||
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 | ||