• Basic information
• Learning outcomes
• Contents
• Assessment
• Workload

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify financial institutions and tools.

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Develop and deepen his/her knowledge in fields of international trade, finance and management
   2. Define basic economics, finance and management terminology, theories and concepts
   3. Review the literature critically pertaining to his/her research projects, and connect the earlier literature to his/her own results
   4. Work effectively in multi-disciplinary research teams
   5. Support his/her ideas with various arguments and present them clearly to a range of audience, formally and informally through a variety of techniques
   6. Write progress reports clearly on the basis of published documents, thesis, etc

   Method of assessment

   1. Oral exam
2. Identify and scientifically analyze market dynamics.

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Develop and deepen his/her knowledge in fields of international trade, finance and management
   2. Define basic economics, finance and management terminology, theories and concepts
   3. Review the literature critically pertaining to his/her research projects, and connect the earlier literature to his/her own results
   4. Work effectively in multi-disciplinary research teams
   5. Support his/her ideas with various arguments and present them clearly to a range of audience, formally and informally through a variety of techniques

   Method of assessment

   1. Oral exam
3. Analyze financial markets from an economics perspective

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Develop and deepen his/her knowledge in fields of international trade, finance and management
   2. Define basic economics, finance and management terminology, theories and concepts
   3. Being able to evaluate and use the advanced level knowledge on international trade, finance and management that are required in experts and researchers who are much needed by the public and private sectors
   4. Review the literature critically pertaining to his/her research projects, and connect the earlier literature to his/her own results
   5. Work effectively in multi-disciplinary research teams
   6. Find out new methods to improve his/her knowledge.
   7. Support his/her ideas with various arguments and present them clearly to a range of audience, formally and informally through a variety of techniques

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam

Contents
Week 1:	Introduction
Week 2:	Financial Institutions, Financial Intermediaries, Financial Assets
Week 3:	Depository Institutions
Week 4:	Insurance Companies
Week 5:	Investment Companies
Week 6:	Islamic Wholesale Banking I
Week 7:	Islamic Wholesale Banking II
Week 8:	Derivative products - Midterm Exam
Week 9:	Primary Markets
Week 10:	Role and Functions of Central Banking
Week 11:	Secondary Markets
Week 12:	Markets for Derivative Securities
Week 13:	Efficient Market Hypothesis
Week 14:	Financial Regulation and Behaivoral Finance
Week 15*:	.
Week 16*:	Final Exam
Textbooks and materials:	Finansal Pazarlar, Hatice Doğukanlı ve Serpil Canbaş. Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions, Fabozzi, Modigliani, Jones.
Recommended readings:	Financial Markets and Institutions, Mishkin and Eakins.
	* Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.

Assessment
Method of assessment	Week number	Weight (%)
Mid-terms:	8	40
Other in-term studies:	-	0
Project:	-	0
Homework:	-	0
Quiz:	-	0
Final exam:	16	60
	Total weight:	(%)

Workload
Activity	Duration (Hours per week)	Total number of weeks	Total hours in term
Courses (Face-to-face teaching):	3	14
Own studies outside class:	5	14
Practice, Recitation:	2	12
Homework:	0	0
Term project:	0	0
Term project presentation:	0	0
Quiz:	0	0
Own study for mid-term exam:	20	1
Mid-term:	2	1
Personal studies for final exam:	23	1
Final exam:	2	1
		Total workload:
		Total ECTS credits:	*
	* ECTS credit is calculated by dividing total workload by 25. (1 ECTS = 25 work hours)