GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

FINANCIAL MARKETS/IKTI210

Course Title:	FINANCIAL MARKETS
Credits	3	ECTS	5
Semester	6	Compulsory/Elective	Elective

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Assist. Prof. Umut Çakmak

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/ucakmak

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

ucakmak@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

To learn financial markets
To comprehend the interactions between money and bond markets
To learn fundamental and technical analysis in stock markets

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

-- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES

There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.

-- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS

There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.

--COURSE CONTENT
1. Week	Introductory comments on financial and capital markets:Definitions and basic concepts
2. Week	The money Market:Various definitions of money: M1, M2; M3 etc.
3. Week	Credit Markets
4. Week	Bonds Markets: Government Bonds; private sector bonds;. Nominal and real Bond yields.
5. Week	FOREX Market: Market rate of foreign exchange: Determinants of supply and demand for FOREX: Expected current account balance (CAB) and net capital flo
6. Week	The interactions between Money, Bond and FOREX markets
7. Week	How the markets determine the current I (it) and the current FOREX-rate ( FRXt )?
8. Week	midterm exam
9. Week	Capital markets: Basic concepts: Capital? Physical and “liquid” capital. Capital and assets. Ranking of assets in terms of their liquidity.
10. Week	Factors determining the market-price of a stock: Expected revenues and profits at t+1.
11. Week	The modus-operandi of the stock market… Explain types of buy/sell orders: Active and passive… Meeting of buy and sell orders: The realization of a
12. Week	Fundamental analysis
13. Week	Technical analysis
14. Week	Futures and Derivatives Markets
15. Week	General Evaluation
16. Week	Final exam

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

Mishkin, Frederic, "Finansal Piyasalar ve Kurumlar", Bilim Teknik Yayınevi, (Çev.İlyas Şıklar, Ahmet Çakmak, Suat Yavuz).

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

Not Applicable

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	40
Assignment	0	0
Exercises	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		60

-- WORKLOAD

Efficiency	Total Week Count	Weekly Duration (in hour)	Total Workload in Semester
Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week	15	3	45
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	15	2	30
Searching in Internet and Library	15	1	15
Designing and Applying Materials			0
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation			0
Presentation			0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	15	15
Final and Studying for Final	1	20	20
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			125
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			5
ECTS:			5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1	Having both national and international teoretical knowledge in the areas public economics, tax law, tax system, government budget, government debt, fiscal policy and economic development.			X
2	Due to interdiciplinary characteristics of public finance, beeig able to become well skilled on legal science, accounting, financial markets and financial analysis and economics and able to internalise this disciplines into finance discipline.					X
3	Beeing able to follow this process of academic research and develop the academc working process in public finance field by mastering of international accounting standarts, using basic statistical and econometric programmes as well knowing scientific research techniques.				X
4	Having enough attribute to be able to take position in public sector as tax inpectorate, auditing fo court of account, judgeship for administrative justice, district governership, inspectorate, expertship and controllership, and in private sector’s different departments such as finance, personal, and human resource department of private sector, local administrations, and in political parties.				X
5	Beeing able to follow, interpret, and implement international tax arrangements which are peculiar to public law, civil law, and tax.		X
6	By indicating his/her desingns through high self confudence and team work, beeing able to indicate creative ideas.			X
7	To be able to follow basic computer techonolology, basic computer programs and innovations in the field of finance in accordance with the principles of life long learning and to be able to utilize information systems interdisciplinary.				X
8	Using effectively turkish some body who is advanced in written and verbal communication, to be able to explain truely and originally yourself and to be able to have capacity to make the prejudice empathy.			X
9	To be able to have the Professional knowledge of foreign languages and follow thenew international studies in this area.				X
10	To be able to be aware of professional and scientific ethical values relation to fiscal disciplineand show the required sensitivity for sustaining these.				X
11	To be able to learn about mechanisms of internation among finance with financial and real sectors and utilize their informations in theanalysis of this process.					X
12	To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge in that the effectiveness of tax systems which is a dynamic structureto be able to increase and the economical productivity to be able to ensure.					X
13	To be able to make analysis relation to problems, put upcreative solutions and original assesments through owning theoritical informations and empirical experiences which are in the past on local and global scale.			X

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