COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FISCAL RULE APPROACH AND PRACTICES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MAL 6222 FISCAL RULE APPROACH AND PRACTICES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Public Finance

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AYŞE GÜNAY BEKAR

Offered to

Public Finance

Course Objective

The establish of fiscal dicipline has importance by the economic policies goals. Fiscal
indicipline due to gap between public revenues and expenditures is the serious problem
for economi and fiscal structure of a country. many of developed and emerging countries
do enforcement some sort of fiscal rules that accordance with law and constitutional
framework. Within the course, basic theorical approach of the financial rules will be
studied and analized comparatively by the country cases.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To provide information about the definition of fiscal approach rules, history and basi features
2   To understand the factors what lay the groundwork to formation of the fiscal rules
3   Analizing the reasons and results of fiscal indicipline
4   Comprehence the importance fiscal rules to provide fiscal dicipline
5   Evaluate and argue the succes and failures of fiscal rules by the country cases

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition of Fiscal Rules, History and Basic Reasons of Revealing for Fiscal Rules
2 The Types and Characteristics of Financial Rules: Regulation and Methods of Fiscal Rules
3 The Importance of Fiscal Rules to Achive Fiscal Dicipline
4 Fiscal Rule Practices in EU
5 Fiscal Rule Practices in USA, Canada, UK and Germany
6 Fiscal Rule Practices in Japan and New Zelland
7 Midterm Exam
8 Fiscal Rule Practices in Latin American Countries
9 Fiscal Rule Practices in Other Countries
10 Sanctions of Fiscal Rule Practices
11 An Overview of Public Finance in Turkey
12 Evaluation of the Existing Fiscal Rules in Turkey
13 Advices and Discussion on New Fiscal Rules to establish Fiscal Dicipline in Turkey
14 Analizing the Fiscal Rule Practices Comparatively

Recomended or Required Reading

1. George KOPITS-Steven SYMANSKY, Fiscal Policy Rules, Occasional Paper 162, IMF, 1998.
2. Ayşe GÜNAY; Mali Disiplinin Sağlanmasında Anayasal Denk Bütçe Yaklaşımı ve Türkiye de Uygulanabilirliği, TC Maliye Bakanlığı Strateji Geliştirme Başkanlığı, Ankara, 2007.
3. Fatih KAYA, Mali Kural Uygulamaları ve Türkiye Incelemesi, DPT Uzmanlık Tezleri, Ankara 2009.
4. TC Maliye Bakanlığı Strateji Geliştirme Başkanlığı, Mali Kurallar, Editörler: Prof.Dr.C.Can AKTAN, Doç.Dr. Ahmet KESIK, Fatih KAYA, Ankara, 2010.
5. Others: books, articles, reports etc. concerned with the course.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing and discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

All of the learning outcomes is associated with assessment criteria

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: ayse.gunay@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation about subject 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparing presentations 1 14 14
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 112

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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