Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
İKT3012013201MONEY THEORY AND POLITICS-ICompulsory356
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course is to provide the students with a general knowledge on monetary theory and policy. Especially financial institutions, central banking, money supply and demand and interest theory.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Yrd.Doç.Dr. Aslı Güler
Learning Outcomes
1Gain information fundamental conceptions, process and methods about money market, monetary theory and policy.
2Understand that the logic of money markets, the description of money supply and its determinants, money demands theories, the aims and instruments of monetary policy and fiscal policies.
3Determine the money supply by the aid of balance sheets of CB and dep.banks, the money multiplication, money demand and interest rates, the using of mon. pol. Instr., monetary transm. mech. and money and fiscal policy appl.
4Analyze the interaction mechanisms between financial sector and real sector by using technics which learned in monetary theory and policy courses and macroeconomics especially for Turkish economy and other economies.
5Attain the results that they are able to use by institutions that they implement economic stabilisation measures and monetary policy.
Mode of Delivery
Formal Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course Contents
Introduction (why study money?, what is money?, definitions of money and it's functions) , financial system (financial markets, it's structure, tools and functions, financial institutions) , financial sector in Turkey (the central bank, commercial banks, investment and development banks, insurance companies, credit cooperatives) , money supply (the definitions of money supply and the role of central banking, multiple deposit creation and money supply process, money multiplier end factors that determine the money multiplier) , demand for money (Quantity Theory of Money, Cambridge approach to money demand, Keynes's Liquidity Preference Theory, Friedman's Modern Quantity Theory, Neo Keynesian money demand theories, empirical evidence on the demand for money, monetary policy) , Interest theory.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1İntroduction to the theory of money
2Meaning, features and occuring of Money
3Kinds of Money
4Functions of financial markets, basic structure and instruments of financial markets
5Functions of financial markets, basic structure and instruments of financial markets
6Financial institutions in Turkey : Cental Bank of Republic of Turkey and commercial banks
7Financial institutions in Turkey : İstanbul Stock Exchange Market, bankers and other financial institutions.
8Mid-term exam
9Definition of money suply and the role of central bank (theoretical definition of money suply and CBRT definition of money suply
10The process of money suply (deposits, loan, and money multipliers)
11Theories of the demand for money (Neo-classical Quantity Theory : Fisher approach and Cambridge approach)
12Modern quantity theory (Chicago approach of Neo-Klassical school)
13Keynesian money demand theory
14Neo Keynesian money demand theory
15The Theory of interest
16Written end-of-term exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Özyurt, H. 2006;Para Teorisi ve Politikası, Derya Kitabevi, Trabzon Keyder, N. 2002; para Teori-Politika-Uygulama, Seçkin Yayıncılık ve Dağıtım, Ankara
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
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End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
SUM0
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination111
Attending Lectures14342
Self Study10330
Individual Study for Mid term Examination8540
Individual Study for Final Examination6636
Reading31030
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)180
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