GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
ECONOMICS OF FINANCE/4910022
Course Title: ECONOMICS OF FINANCE
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Semester 1 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assoc. Prof. Afşin Şahin, Ph.D.
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://www.gazi.edu.tr/~afsinsahin
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  afsinsahin@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Understanding the time value of money.
Learning the financial tools in economics.
Learning the efficiency hypothesis.
Learning the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
Learning the systematic and non-systematic risks.
Learning the central bank and financial markets relationiship.
Learning the role of banking in financial markets.
Learning the applications of financial econometrics in financial markets.
Learning the volatility concept.
Understanding the money and finance relationship in theoretical dimension.
 -- 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  Empirical Evidence on Money, Prices and Output
2. Week  Money in the Utility Funcion
3. Week  Cash in Advance Models
4. Week  Money and Finance
5. Week  Money and Inflation
6. Week  Money and Open Economy
7. Week  Monetary Theory and Interest Rates
8. Week  Arbitrage and Asset Valuation
9. Week  Expected Utility
10. Week  Capital Asset Pricing Model
11. Week  Arbitrate Pricing Model
12. Week  Dynamic Programming
13. Week  Consumption and Asset Pricing
14. Week  Investment
15. Week  Business Cycles
16. Week  Monetary Models and Finance
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Carl E. Walsh (2003). Monetary Theory and Policy, Massachusssets Institute of Technology, USA. Sumru Altug and Pamela Labadie (2008). Asset Pricing for Dynamics Economies, Cambridge University Press. F.J. Fabozzi, E.H. Neave, and G. Zhou (2012), Financial Economics, Wiley. Z. Bodie, A. Kane, and A. Marcus (2016), Essentials of Investments, McGraw-Hill. F.J. Fabozzi, E.H. Neave, and G. Zhou (2012), Financial Economics, Wiley. Z. Bodie, A. Kane, and A. Marcus (2016), Essentials of Investments, McGraw-Hill. Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance, Princeton University Press. Charles Kindelberger and Robert Aliber, 2005. Manias, Panics and Crashes, John Wiley, Inc.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
   Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration, Drill - Practise
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  Not Applicable
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
2
50
 Assignment
1
15
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
65
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
35
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
3
42
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
0
0
 Reading
14
1
14
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
1
14
 Designing and Applying Materials
14
2
28
 Preparing Reports
14
1
14
 Preparing Presentation
14
1
14
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
14
2
28
 Final and Studying for Final
14
2
28
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
182
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.28
 ECTS: 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8
9
10X