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COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
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| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| Course Objectives | |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Supportive Courses | X | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Growth and Distribution dynamics | Pamuk, Şevket (2007), “Economic Change in Twentieth Century Turkey: Is the Glass More than Half Full?”, American University in Paris, Working Paper Series, No: 41 İsmihan, Mustafa and MetinÖzcan, Kıvılcım (2006), “The Growth Performance of the Turkish Economy: 19602004", mimeo |
| 3 | Continued. | Taymaz ve Suicmez (2005), “Turkiye'de Verimlilik, Buyume ve Kriz”, Turkiye Ekonomi Kurumu Tartisma Metni, 2005/4Boratav et. al. (2000), “Globalization, Distribution and Social Policy: Turkey, 19801998”, CEPA Working Paper Series, No: 20 |
| 4 | Industrialization | Şenses, Fikret ve Taymaz, Erol (2003), “Unutulan Bir Toplumsal Amaç: Sanayileşme Ne Oluyor, Ne Olmalı?”, ERC Working Papers in Economics, 03/01 Rodrik, Dani (2005), “Notes on Trade and Industrialization Policy, in Turkey and Elsewhere”, METU Studies in Development, Vol. 32, pp. 259274 |
| 5 | Capital Accumulation | Somel, Cem (2003), “Estimating the Surplus in the Periphery: an Application to Turkey”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 27:6, pp. 919933 Eres, Benan (2005), “Capital Accumulation and the Development of a Financial System: The Turkish Example”, RRPE, Vol. 37:3, 320328 |
| 6 | Employment and Unemployment | |
| 7 | MIDTERM EXAM | |
| 8 | Informality in Turkey | Brook, AnnieMarie and Whitehouse, Edwards (2006), “The Turkish Pension System: Further Reforms to Help Solve Informality Problem”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No: 29 Bulutay, Tuncer and Taştı, Recep (2002), “Informal Sector in Turkish Labor Market”, Turkish Economic Association Discussion Paper, 2004/22 |
| 9 | Credit Markets and Corporate Finance | Çavuşoğlu, Tarkan (2002), “Credit Transmission Mechanism in Turkey: An empirical investigation”, ERC Working Paper Series, 02/03 Ardıç, Oya Pınar and Damar, Evren (2006), “Financial Deepening and Economic Growth: Evidence from Turkey”, Boğaziçi University Economics Department Discussion Paper Series Gezici, Armağan (2006), “Investment Under Liberalization: Channels of Uncertainty and Liquidity”, mimeo Duman, Alper (2009), Asset Inequality, Relative Efficieny of Formal Credit Markets and Choice of Organizational Form İzmir University of Economics, Department of Economics Wroking Paper Series, 0908 |
| 10 | Privatization | Yeldan, Erinç (2005), “Assessing the Privatization Experience in Turkey”, Economy Policy Institute Report SimgaMugan, Can and Yüce, Ayşe (2003), “Privatization in Emerging Markets: The case of Turkey”, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Vol. 39:5, pp. 83110 |
| 11 | Corporate Governance and Organizational Forms | Yurtoğlu, Buçin (2000), “Ownership, Control and Performance of Turkish Listed Firms”, Empirica, 27, pp. 193222 Ozcan, Gul Berna and Cokgezen, Murat (2003) “The Limits to Alternative Forms of Capitalization: The case of Anatolian holding companies”, World Development, Vol. 31: 12 pp. 20612084 Duman, Alper and Efe Postalcı (2009), Corporate Governance Networks in Turkey, Izmir University of Economics, Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, 0904 |
| 12 | Crises | Ekinci, Nazım and Ertürk, Korkut (2004), “Turkish Currency Crisis 20001 Revisited”, CEPA Working Paper Series, 200401 Akyüz, Yılmaz and Boratav, Korkut (2003), “The Making of the Turkish Financial Crisis”, World Development, Vol. 31:9, pp. 1549 1566 |
| 13 | EU, Capital Flows and FDI | Onaran, Ozlem (2006), “Speculation ledgrowth and fragility in Turkey: Does EU make a difference or can it happen again?”, University of Vienna Working Paper Series, No: 93 Taymaz Erol and Ozler, Sule (2004), “Labor Market Policies and EU Accession: Problems and Prospects for Turkey”, ERC Working Paper Series, 04/05 |
| 14 | Students' presentations | |
| 15 | Students' presentations | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Ziya Öniş and Fikret Şenses (eds), Turkey and the Global Economy: The New Phase of NeoLiberal Restructuring and Integration in the PostCrisis Era, Routledge, Oxford and New York, September, 2009. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Various papers and book chapters listed above |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 16 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 |
| Project | 1 | 20 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 25 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 65 | |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 35 | |
| Total |
ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 2 | |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 | |
| Project | 1 | 20 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 18 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 24 | |
| Total | 150 |
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To have a sound knowledge of the quantitative and qualitative methods that will help to examine the premises of different theories for an applied subject so that a contribution to solving current economic problems can be made. | X | ||||
| 2 | To have the experience of writing, using software, and doing presentations in the newspapers, magazines, meetings, panels, and in equivalent virtual platforms (internet), in order to share their accumulated knowledge and problem solving ability acquired during their education. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to participate in academic, professional, regional, and global networks and to utilize these networks efficiently. | X | ||||
| 4 | To have adequate social responsibility and awareness with regards to the needs of the society and to have sufficient experience and qualifications to organize and support the activities to influence the social dynamics in line with the social goals. | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to integrate the knowledge and training acquired during the university education with personal and work experience and produce a synthesis of knowledge she requires. | |||||
| 6 | To have the ability to evaluate his/her advance (post graduate) level educational needs and do necessary planning to fulfill those needs through the acquired capability to think analytically and critically. | X | ||||
| 7 | To have sufficient practical and theoretical knowledge base in order to define the economic agents and their interaction both in the national and global level, to process economic data and to implement scientific research for development of economic policies. | X | ||||
| 8 | Keeping in mind that economics is a social science, to have the skills to integrate social dynamics into economic process both as an input and an output and to be open to theoretical innovations in this direction. | |||||
| 9 | To associate accumulated knowledge acquired during the university education with historical and cultural qualities of the society and to convey it to different groups. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to follow knowledge and change in economics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language. | X | ||||
| 11 | To possess social, scientific and ethical values at the data collection, interpretation and dissemination stages of economic analysis. | |||||
| 12 | To have advanced level of speaking and writing skills of a second foreign language to support continuation of post graduate professional and individual development | |||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest