Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
İKT603MONETARY THEORYCompulsory115
Level of Course Unit
Second Cycle
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course is to create the theoretical ground on the functioning of the monetary and financial system by dealing with advanced topics in monetary theory, to ensure that the student is equipped to analyze the monetary and financial system and to understand the necessary policies.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi 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
To have taken the undergraduate monetary theory and policy course.
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Interaction between money and macroeconomic variables, Money Demand, Money supply, Determining the interest rate, Determining the exchange rate
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1İntroduction to the theory of money
2Potential growth rate, price stability, financial stability, interest and exchange rate rates and monetary policy relations.
3 Functions of money, dysfunctionality of money, money in utility function
4Money demand theories
5Electronic money
6 CBRT Balance Sheet
7Creating Money Base
8 Mid-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)
11Present value, internal rate of return, yield to maturity, rate of return and real interest.
12Determining the interest rate level
13Risk and Interest, Term structure of interest rates
14Nominal and real exchange rates, movements in exchange rates disconnected from economic fundamentals, exchange rate models
15Purchasing power parity theories, uncovered interest rate parity, the effect of expectations on the rate of interest
16Written end-of-term exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Fatih Özatay, Parasal İktisat: Kuram ve Politika, Efil Yayınevi.çkin Yayıncılık ve Dağıtım,2002, Ankara
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)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination111
Attending Lectures14342
Individual Study for Mid term Examination8648
Individual Study for Final Examination61060
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)152
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