LAW3601 Informal Economy and Black MoneyBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs ECONOMICS AND FINANCEGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
LAW3601 Informal Economy and Black Money Fall 0 2 1 4
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Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Prof. Dr. GÜLSEN GÜNEŞ
Course Lecturer(s): Prof. Dr. GÜLSEN GÜNEŞ
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: The examination and the evaluation of the legal regulations regarding Informal Economy and Black Money by presenting of the scope and the appereance of the issue in various countries

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Discuss the term "Enformal Economy" by comparing it with similar terms
II. Distinguish the parameterization of informality
III. Recognize the limits of the Informal Economy field
IV. Reach the legal regulations regarding the field
V. Reach the judicial decisions regarding the field
VI. Evaluate the reports of the Governmental and international organizations struggling with Informal Economy and Black Money
VII. Make a presentation which is prepared in an academical formate

Course Content

Informal Economy: Term, differentiation from similar terms; Types of Measurement and the rates of Informal Economy in various contries; Reasons causing Informal Economy; The general scope of Informal Economy; Underground Economy; Aboveground Informal Economy; black money: the term, the phases of Black Money laundring; Types of BLack money laundring, International and Govermental Organizations

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Informal Economy: Term, differentiation from similar terms
2) Types of Measurement and the rates of Informal Economy in various countries
3) Reasons causing Informal Economy
4) The general scope of Informal Economy
5) Underground Economy
6) Informal Economy
7) black money and laundring
8) Review
9) the phases of Black Money laundring
10) types of black money laundring
11) Methods of Struggling against black money
12) International and Govermental Organizations Struggling with Black Money
13) Homework Evaluation
14) Homework Evaluation

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: -
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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 1 % 10
Homework Assignments 1 % 10
Presentation 1 % 10
Final 1 % 70
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 30
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 70
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 5 70
Study Hours Out of Class 14 1 14
Midterms 1 5 5
Final 1 5 5
Total Workload 94

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. 3
2) Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. 2
3) Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. 1
4) Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. 3
5) Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. 2
6) Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. 2
7) Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. 3
8) Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. 2
9) Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. 2
10) Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. 3