COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PUBLIC FINANCE POLICY I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 4605 PUBLIC FINANCE POLICY I 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

Public Finance (Evening)
Public Finance

Course Objective

It is presenting rheoritical bases of public finance policy and analysing the relations among macroeconomic aims in the framework of State s economic role.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Demonstrating mastery of public economic terminology by defining and discussing the terminology as well as applying it to current events;
2   Discussing the criteria for evaluating market based and government based solutions to society s needs and wants;
3   Examining the reasons and rationale for public spending policy changes.
4   Analyzing public finance from a number of perspectives, including managers, policy makers and economic researchers.
5   Applying economic and finance concepts to current policy problems

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

HAZIRLIK - FOREIGN LANGUAGE PREPARATION CLASS

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Macroeconomics and Public Finance Policy;
2 The Components of the Macroeconomy;
3 Government in the Economy;
4 Government in the Macroeconomy;
5 The Government and Fiscal Policy;
6 Budget Process;
7 Globalization and Fiscal Policy;
8 Mid-term exam
9 Mid-term exam
10 Globalization;
11 Fiscal Policy in Globalization Process;
12 Anti-Conjectural Fiscal Policy;
13 John Maynard Keynes and Fiscal Policy;
14 Inflation, Deflation and Stagflation;

Recomended or Required Reading

Karl F Seidman (2004). Economic Development Finance. SAGE Publications, Inc
DN Hyman (2007) Public finance: A contemporary application of theory to policy
WH Buiter (1990) Principles of budgetary and financial policy. MIT Press Books.

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

Giving lecture, active participation of students and presentations prepared by the students

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

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

Office Hours

14:30 PM to 16:30 PM on most Mondays and Tuesday.

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 9 9
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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