ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
IF3224 | Financial Markets and Institutions | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester |
Language of instruction: | En |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BAHAR KÖSEOĞLU |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. ASLI YÜKSEL |
Course Objectives: | The purpose of this course is to guide students in developing critical thinking skills as applied to financial markets and institutions. Topics include the determination of asset prices; the risk and term structure of interest rates; the efficient markets hypothesis; money markets, and capital markets. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Learns functions of financial markets and institutions II. Understands structure of financial system III. Uses yield curve to make an inference about short term interest rates in the future IV. Evaluates the implications of the efficient market hypothesis V. Understands the factors affecting interest rates in the market VI. Learns characteristics of financial instruments traded in the money market VII. Identifies characteristics of residential mortgages VIII. Learns how stock and bond markets operate IX. Gets information about the foreign exchange markets |
functions of financial markets and institutions, structure of financial system, yield curve, the efficient market hypothesis, stock and bond markets, foreign exchange markets |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
1) | Why Study Financial Markets and Institutions? | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
2) | Overview of the Financial System | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
3) | What do Interest Rates Mean and What is Their Role in Valuation? | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
4) | Why Do Interest Rates Change? | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
5) | How do Risk and Term Structure Affect Interest Rates? | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
6) | Are Financial Markets Efficient? | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
7) | Review | To read the text book and lecture notes for the exam | |
8) | Money market | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
9) | Bond market | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
10) | Stock market | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
11) | Review | To read the text book and lecture notes for the exam | |
12) | Mortgage Market | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
13) | The Foreign Exchange Market | To read the related chapter in the text book | |
14) | The Foreign Exchange Market | To read the related chapter in the text book |
Course Notes: | Textbook / Required Material Mishkin, Frederic and Stanley G. Eakins, Financial Markets & Institutions, 6th edition, Pearson International Edition, 2009 |
References: | Mecut değil - None |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | % 0 | |
Laboratory | % 0 | |
Application | % 0 | |
Field Work | % 0 | |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | % 0 | |
Quizzes | % 0 | |
Homework Assignments | % 0 | |
Presentation | % 0 | |
Project | % 0 | |
Seminar | % 0 | |
Midterms | 2 | % 60 |
Preliminary Jury | % 0 | |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Paper Submission | % 0 | |
Jury | % 0 | |
Bütünleme | % 0 | |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Field Work | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 2 | 30 |
Presentations / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Homework Assignments | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Quizzes | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Preliminary Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Midterms | 2 | 30 | 60 |
Paper Submission | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Final | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Total Workload | 152 |
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. | |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | |
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. | |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | |
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. | |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. |