COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FISCAL POLICY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MLY 3024 FISCAL POLICY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Finance

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAYAL AYÇA ŞIMŞEK

Offered to

Economics (Evening)
Economics
Business Administration
Business Administration (Evening)

Course Objective

Expressing theoretical framework of the fiscal policy and examining its relationship with macro economic aims within the context of the economic role of government

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Associating basis of existence of the fiscal policy with govermental economic missions and Associating the fiscal policy with economic policy
2   Explaining objectives and instruments of the fiscal policy basically and explaining the conflicts between them
3   Analyzing assessments of the fiscal policy in basic economic approaches
4   Explaining the theoretical constructs of the fiscal policy associated with resource allocation, economic stability, economic development and income distribution with the examples
5   Interpretating the fiscal policy practices and results in developed and developing countries within the context of the theoretical, institutional and practical
6   Explaining the fiscal policy practices of Türkiye in historical process and interpreting the results of practices in globalization process.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Emergence of Fiscal Policy
2 Development of Fiscal Policy
3 Fiscal Policy in Economic Approaches: Classical (Traditional) Approaches
4 Fiscal Policy in Economic Approaches: Neo-Classical (Contemporary) Approaches
5 Economic Cycle and Fiscal Policy
6 Anti-cyclical Fiscal Policy Practices (Fight Against Inflation)
7 Anti-cyclical Fiscal Policy Practices (Fight Against Deflation)
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 MIDTERM EXAM
10 Anti-cyclical Fiscal Policy Practices (Fight Againts Stagflations)
11 Economic Development and Fiscal Policy
12 Income Distribution and Fiscal Policy
13 Corporate Issues of Fiscal Policy
14 Globalization and Fiscal Policy

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Sources:
Asuman Altay, Maliye Politikası Ders Notları
A.Eker, A.Altay, M.Sakal, Maliye Politikası.
Supplementary Sources:
I. Türk, Maliye Politikası.
B. Ataç, Maliye Politikası.

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


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)

e-mail: ayca.simsek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesdays - Time: 15.00-17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 114

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51
LO.61