COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MLY 3005 PUBLIC ECONOMICS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Finance

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DILEK BAŞARAN

Offered to

Public Finance (Evening)
Public Finance

Course Objective

Based on the reason for the existence of the state in the economy from the past to the present location and the different aspects of the role and forms of state intervention in the economy to offer.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Defining the public economy, to distinguish the difference between the market economy and public economy.
2   to explain the reasons of why the government in economy with inefficiencies in the context of the market economy
3   to sort out the Types of state intervention in the economy and specify the differences between them.
4   Illustrate what kind of state goods and services produced.
5   Interpret the function of the State to produce goods and services
6   Defining the concept of privatization and sorting the reasons for the different aspects (economic, financial, social, etc.).
7   explaining the reasons and methods to interpret the main privatization process in the World and Turkey.
8   sort the data by querying of the advantages and disadvantages of privatization

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 An Overview of Public Economics and Public Economics Research Fields and Basic Characteristics of the Market Economy and Public Economics
2 Anatomy of market failure: Perfect Competition Terms realized and Externalities
3 Anatomy of market failure: public goods Economies of Scale and Asset
4 The ratioınality of public economics.
5 Traditional Public Goods Theory and New Developments in this field
6 Public Economics Decision-Making and Voting Rules
7 The Economics of Regulation and Public Regulations Theory
8 Midterm
9 Midterm
10 Public Economy inefficiencies Resources-I: Political inefficiencies from the supply
11 Public Economy inefficiencies Resources-II: Political demand-driven inefficiencies, Comparison of Public Economy and Market Economy
12 Competition Between Public Sector Administration and Fiscal Decentralization
13 The theory of SOEs
14 Privatization Theory and Applications

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Source:
Doç.Dr. Dilek Dileyici BAŞARAN, Kamu Ekonomi Ders Notları.
Supplementary Resources:
Kenan BULUTOĞLU, Kamu Ekonomisi, Filiz Kitabevi, Istanbul.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

dilek.dileyici@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 16:00 -17:00 Room Number: 515

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 13 13
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 123

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