COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FIB 5109 ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC INDICATORS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Financial Economics and Banking

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YAŞAR UYSAL

Offered to

Financial Economics and Banking

Course Objective

Presentation of web pages which have economic indicators, analysis of economic indicators and relations between the indicators, both micro-and macro level analysis of the data used for the assessment of how the transfer of information

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to learn methods of calculate basic economic indicators
2   To be able to learn to access economic indicators
3   To be able to understand the relationship between economic theory and economic indicators
4   To be able to estimate about the future based on economic indicators
5   To be able to understand different approaches to produce of economic indicators

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Presentation of national and global web pages which have economic indicators
2 Analysis of GNP, GDP and other related indicators (calculate methods, area of usage)
3 Preparetion, calculation and usage (realization, the internal terms of trade) of price indices (CPI, PPI deflators) and their evaluation
4 The analysis of Balance of Payments
5 The analysis of state budget
6 The analysis of Central Banks balance sheet
7 The interaciton between BOP, budget, central bank and the effects of monetary policy, exchange rate policy, fiscal policy on these indicators
8 Midterm Exam
9 The analysis of the money, banking, deposit, credit indicators
10 The analysis of the indicators of income distribution and labor market
11 The analysis of savings, investments and other related indicators
12 The analysis of financial investments and their returns (current, real)
13 Research on the basis of the compilation of the indicators, the indicators linked to the tables, the main macro-economic indicators of countries with different development levels of the compilation and analysis
14 The presantion of student papers

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Refferance: Makro Ekonomik Göstergelerin Yorumlanması (Ömer Faruk ÇOLAK, Alaattin AKTAŞ,)
Supplementary Refferances: Ekonomik Göstergeler ve Istatistikler ve Rehberi (Elif ÇEPNI)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Economic data collection, calculation and interpretation are discussed. Courses are based on the verbal and quantitative data.

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 * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 14 14
Reading 2 15 30
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 14 2 28
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 155

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1555
LO.2555
LO.3555
LO.4555
LO.5555