COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FINANCIAL CRISIS: THEORY AND COUNTRY APPLICATIONS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MAL 5113 FINANCIAL CRISIS: THEORY AND COUNTRY APPLICATIONS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Finance

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAYAL AYÇA ŞIMŞEK

Offered to

Public Finance

Course Objective

Investigating the theorical backgrpund of economic crisis that have been heavily felt by world countries with the globalisation process and analysing the effects of economic crisis on world economy by examining different country experiences.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to analyse economic factors causing economic crisis within the scope of economic crisis theories.
2   Be able to examine the economy policies implemented to reduce/resolve the negative effects of economic crisis within the scope of crisis theories.
3   Be able to discuss the reasons and results of economic crisis and the success of economy policies implemented to reduce/resolve the negative effects of these crisis in developed and developing countries.
4   Be able to analyse inclusive and exclusive economic factors causing economic crisis in Türkiye (with in the scope of crisis theories)
5   Be able to discuss the reasons and results of economic crisis and the success of economy policies implemented to reduce/resolve the negative effects of these crisis in Türkiye.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Economic crisis models
2 Inclusive and exclusive factors causing economic crisis (within the scope of crisis theories)
3 Macroeconomic analysis of crisis models
4 Inclusive and exclusive factors causing economic crisis in developing countries
5 Economy policies implemented to struggle against economic crisis in developing countries (common and different features of countries)
6 Macroeconomic analysis of economic crisis in developing countries within the scope of crisis models
7 MID EXAMS
8 MID EXAMS
9 Inclusive and exclusive factors causing economic crisis in developed countries
10 Economy policies implemented to struggle against economic crisis in developed countries
11 Inclusive and exclusive factors causing economic crisis in Türkiye (common and different features of Turkish economic crisis)
12 Economy policies implemented to struggle against economic crisis in Türkiye
13 Economy politics of the global crisis and effects of the global crisis on world countries (reasons, results, precaution and policy implementations)
14 The effects of the global crisis on the Turkish economy (effects on real/financial sectors, precautions and policy implementations)

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Reference: Macroeconomics, N. Gregory Mankiw, 2010, Worth Publishers
Supplementary Reference: Macroeconomics, Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, 2009, Worth Publishers

Other Materials: National and international periodical journals (including e-journals), academic reports (national/international)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Explaining and discussing

Assessment Methods

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

(0090) (232) 4204180-10424, ayca.simsek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursdays, 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 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 2 2 4
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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