COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FINANCIAL ECONOMICS II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FIB 5008 FINANCIAL ECONOMICS II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Financial Economics and Banking

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ÜZEYIR AYDIN

Offered to

Financial Economics and Banking

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to analyze the processes which are produced by economic decision makers financial and capital structure.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to analyze financial and capital structure analysis of economic decision makers under conditions of global imperfect competition in open economy.
2   To be able to analyze global economic conjuncture which has taken place depends on financial and capital structure of economic decision makers under conditions of global imperfect competition in open economy.
3   To be able to analyze the formation of interest rates in the international financial markets and effect of global economic forces about this process.
4   To be able to analyze developments in the global economy based on financial markets.
5   To be able to analyze the effects of interest rate policies of the developed countries on yields and pricing of financial instruments.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Financial and capital structure analysis of economic decision makers under conditions of global imperfect competition in open economy.
2 Price formation in financial markets and the efficiency in financial industry.
3 The analysis of real economic variables on the basis of developments in financial markets.
4 International policy coordination within the framework of the international monetary theory.
5 International financial system and the regulatory corporations.
6 Global financial risks.
7 The global financial risks
8 Prevention from the global financial risks (midterm exam will be held in this week except the course hour)
9 Countries' balance of asset liability.
10 Analysis of asset liability balance of countries based on the variables stock flow.
11 Usage of techniques for the production of derivative financial instruments for monetary policy.
12 International financial markets and financial innovation products
13 The effect of financial innovation on the international monetary system
14 Impact of the financial crisis and financial innovations on the global economic conjuncture.

Recomended or Required Reading

Stephen F. LeRoy Jan Werner , Principles of Financial Economics , Cambridge University Press, 2001
Yvan Lengwiler, Microfoundations of Financial Economics: An Introduction to General Equilibrium Asset Pricing (Princeton Series in Finance), Princeton University Press (1. Ve 6 . bölümler)
R. E. Bailey, The Economics of Financial Markets , Cambriedge University Pres, 2005.
George M. Frankfurter, Theory and Reality in Financial Economics: Essays Toward a New Political Finance , World Scientific Publishing Company
Chris Jones, Financial Economics, Routledge, 2008.
Nelson C. Mark International Macroeconomics andFinance: Theory and Empirical Methods, Blackwell Publishers 2000
Keith Pilbeam, Finance and financial Markets, Macmillian Pres, 1998.
Keith Pilbeam, International Finance, Macmillian Pres, 1998.
Keith Cuthbertson, Dirk Nitzsche, Quantitavive Financial Economics, John Wiley & Sons
2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical approaches is applied in order to teach connection of economic processes with real life.

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)

uzeyir.aydin@deu.edu.tr
4204180 (10621)

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 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing homework 1 25 25
Reading 1 15 15
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 136

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.25555
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