Course Name | Money and Banking |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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ECON 303 | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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Course Language | English | |||||||||||
Course Type | Required | |||||||||||
Course Level | First Cycle | |||||||||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||||||||
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Course Coordinator | - | |||||||||||
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Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | To acquaint the students with the very basics of banking, to explain monetary and interest systems, help them conceptualize money and capital market tools and functioning thereof. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | In this course money and monetary issues are explained. Foreign exchange is duly introduced with all experimental equations and practices. The scope and structures of all banking activities are taught and exemplified, and commercial banks’ role in the foreign trade are accentuated. |
| Core Courses | |
Major Area Courses | X | |
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Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | An Overview of the Financial System & What Is Money? | Chapter 2&3 |
2 | Understanding Interest Rates | Chapter 4 |
3 | Banking and the Management of Financial Institutions | Chapter 9 |
4 | Central Banks | Chapter 12 |
5 | Central Banks | Chapter 12 |
6 | the Federal Reserve System | Chapter 13&14 |
7 | the Federal Reserve System | Chapter 13&14 |
8 | The Foreign Exchange Market &The International Financial System | Chapter 17&18 |
9 | The Foreign Exchange Market &The International Financial System | Chapter 17&18 |
10 | Quantity Theory, Inflation, and the Demand for Money | Chapter 19 |
11 | Quantity Theory, Inflation, and the Demand for Money | Chapter 19 |
12 | The IS Curve | Chapter 20 |
13 | The Monetary Policy and Aggregate Demand Curves, | Chapter 21 |
14 | The IS/LM Model | Chapter 27 |
15 | Review of the Semester | |
16 | Review of the Semester |
Course Notes/Textbooks | Frederic, S. Mishkin, The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, Pearson |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets by Frederic S. Mishkin |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 16 | 10 |
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Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 1 | 40 |
Final Exam | 1 | 50 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 18 | 60 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 30 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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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 | 16 | 4 | 64 |
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Midterms | 1 | 28 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 40 | |
Total | 180 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to acquire a sound knowledge of fundamental concepts, theories, principles and methods of investigation specific to the economic field. | X | ||||
2 | To be able to apply adequate mathematical, econometric, statistical and data analysis models to process economic data and to implement scientific research for development of economic policies. | |||||
3 | To be able to participate in academic, professional, regional, and global networks and to utilize these networks efficiently. | |||||
4 | To be able to have adequate social responsibility with regards to the needs of the society and to organize the activities to influence social dynamics in line with social goals. | |||||
5 | To be able to integrate the knowledge and training acquired during the university education with personal education and produce a synthesis of knowledge one requires. | X | ||||
6 | To be able to evaluate his/her advance level educational needs and do necessary planning to fulfill those needs through the acquired capability to think analytically and critically. | X | ||||
7 | To be able to acquire necessary skills to integrate social dynamics into economic process both as an input and an output. | |||||
8 | To be able to link accumulated knowledge acquired during the university education with historical and cultural qualities of the society and be able to convey it to different strata of society. | |||||
9 | To be able to take the responsibility as an individual and as a team member. | |||||
10 | To be able to attain social, scientific and ethical values at the data collection, interpretation and dissemination stages of economic analysis. | X | ||||
11 | To be able to collect data in economics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1) | X | ||||
12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout human history to their field of economics. |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest