Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
İKT2212013202MACRO ECONOMICSCompulsory234
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
The aim of the course is • to teach the microeconomic issues • to develop the ability of the students to perform the analysis.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Yrd.Doç.Dr. Oğuz Tümtürk
Learning Outcomes
1Bu dersi başarı ile tamamlayan öğrenciler:Toplumlardaki makro iktisadi gelişimi analiz edebilir.
2Piyasaların, devletin, işletme ve tüketicilerin davranışlarını yorumlayabilir
3Milli gelir, faiz oranları, döviz kurları, fiyatlar genel düzeyi gibi değişkenlerdeki değişimlerin ekonomiye etkilerini ölçebilir.
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Mode of Delivery
Formal Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
Yok
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Week 1 Costs, concepts of cost, distinction between the short and long run, cost curves, shifts in cost curves Week 2 Firms in perfect competitionmarket, market structure, marginal revenue, average revenue, total revenue, short run equilibrium of the firm and industry, short run supply curve of firm and industry Week 3 Firms in perfect competition market, long-run equilibrium of the firm, constant-cost industries, increasing and decreasing cost industries, the long-run supply elasticity Week 4 Monopoly,the causes of monopoly, demand curve of monopolist, income of monopolist, short-run stability, long run equilibrium Week 5 Monopoly, price differentiation, regulation of monopolies, the comparison of monopoly and perfect competition Week 6 Oligopoly; definition, causes, classification, Cournot model, the Edgeworth model, Chamberlin model, Sweezy model, the kinked demand curve Week 7 Oligopoly, Bertrand model, Stackelberg model, game theory, price leadership,entry of new firms Week 8 Midterm Week 9 Monopolistic competition; definition, the demand curve in monopolistic competition, the short run equilibrium , long-run equilibrium, the comparison of Monopolistic competition and perfect competition the comparison of Monopolistic competition and monopoly Week 10 The market for the factors of production, demand for factor in perfect competition market, deman for factor in imperfect competition market, price elasticity of factor demand, ,factor supply Week 11 The market for the factors of production, factor-market equilibrium, the concept of rent, quasi rent, wage differentials Week 12 Welfare economics and general equilibrium, the optimal factor use, necessary conditions for optimal resource allocation,the Edgeworth box, Pareto efficient allocation, contract curve, the theory of the second-best, quiz Week 13 Welfare economics and general equilibrium, perfect competition and economic efficiency Week 14 Uncertainty and asymmetric information, risk aversion, methods for reducing risk, information and market equilibrium, information and economic efficiency Week 15 Externalities and public goods, defining externalities, externalities and allocational efficiency, bargaining and Coase theorem, public goods, public goods and market failure Week 16 Final Exam
Course Contents
• The production function and variable-rate yield law • The balance and equilibrium, production costs, perfect competition, monopoly,monopsony, oligopoly and monopolized competition and stability in other markets • Production factors market, welfare economics and general equilibrium,and public goods.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Introduction
2The Data of Macroeconomics: Measuring the Value of Economic Activity
3Inflation, Growth and Employment
4National Income:Where It Comes from and Where It Goes
5Money and Inflation
6The Quantity Theory of Money
7Inflation and Interest Rates
8Midterm Exam
9Short Run Economic Fluctuations
10Aggregated Short and Long-run Supply Curves, Shifts in the Aggregated Demand
11IS Curve and Goods and Services
12LM Curve and Money Markets
13IS-LM Curve and Shifts in the Aggregated Demand
14Open Economy and Mundell-Fleming Model
15Exchange Rates
16Final Exam
Recommended or Required Reading
1 Erdal M.Ünsal; Makro İktisat, İmaj Yayınevi. İlave Kaynak 2 N. Gregory Mankiw, Makroekonomi, Çevirmen: Ömer Faruk Çolak, Efil Yayınevi
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
SUM0
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
SUM0
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Yok
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination111
Attending Lectures14456
Self Study14342
Individual Study for Mid term Examination199
Individual Study for Final Examination11313
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)122
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