ECON 322 / INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 16:00:00-17:15:00Ön Koşullar: ECON. 202

Theoretical and empirical examination of international financial markets. Adjustment of balance of payments and exchange rate. Effects of devaluation and macroeconomic policy under fixed and floating exchange rates. Short and long term capital flows; interest arbitrage; the Euro-dollar market. Financial Globalization and Financial Crises.

ECON 330 / INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 8:30:00-9:45:00Ön Koşullar: ECON. 201 or consent of the instructor

Firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets. How firms acquire and maintain market power. Welfare consequences of market power. Strategic interactions among firms, and the role of government competition policy. Basic theoretical models of industrial economics: Bertrand and Cournot competition, collusion, advertising, innovation, and international trade.

ECON 333 / GAME THEORY AND STRATEGY
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 13:00:00-14:15:00Ön Koşullar: ECON. 100 or ECON 101 or Econ 110 or ECON. 201

Analysis of strategic interactions that commonly arise in economic, business, political, and judicial arenas. A systematic introduction to game theory and some of its applications, such as market competition, technological races, auctions, party competition for votes, and bargaining.

ECON 333 / GAME THEORY AND STRATEGY
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 8:30:00-9:45:00Ön Koşullar: ECON. 100 or ECON 101 or Econ 110 or ECON. 201

Analysis of strategic interactions that commonly arise in economic, business, political, and judicial arenas. A systematic introduction to game theory and some of its applications, such as market competition, technological races, auctions, party competition for votes, and bargaining.

ECON 345 / HEALTH ECONOMICS
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 14:30:00-15:45:00Ön Koşullar: ECON 201 or Consent of Instructor

Economic decisions and processes that drive the demand for and the production of health and health care. Basic economic concepts and evaluation techniques of health economics. Why health services are different from other goods and services. Aspects of the health care markets in different countries. Need for health care reform. Evaluation of health policy. Importance of health for development. Markets for health insurance.

ECON 360 / MONEY AND BANKING
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 16:00:00-17:15:00Ön Koşullar: ECON. 202

Theoretical and empirical examination of commercial bank operations with specific reference to the Turkish Banking industry. Money supply and demand; the role of commercial banks in the economy and their regulation by monetary authorities; stability of the financial system; bank contracts and their pricing and management with respect to interest rates; inflation and credit risk; securitization of bank assets; factors behind the rapidly growing non-bank sources of corporate funds; the future of banking.

ECON 360 / MONEY AND BANKING
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 10:00:00-11:15:00Ön Koşullar: ECON. 202

Theoretical and empirical examination of commercial bank operations with specific reference to the Turkish Banking industry. Money supply and demand; the role of commercial banks in the economy and their regulation by monetary authorities; stability of the financial system; bank contracts and their pricing and management with respect to interest rates; inflation and credit risk; securitization of bank assets; factors behind the rapidly growing non-bank sources of corporate funds; the future of banking.

ECON 370 / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 16:00:00-17:15:00Ön Koşullar: ECON. 202

Common characteristics of developing countries; the role of institutional infrastructure in economic development; alternative theories of development. Economics of growth: capital, labor, human capital and technology. Income distribution and poverty; population growth; urbanization; migration; education; the environment; agricultural progress in the process of economic development.

ECON 499 / ECONOMICS CAPSTONE
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 11:30:00-12:45:00Ön Koşullar: ECON 201, ECON 202, and ECON 311 at least 4 Economics area elective Courses

Integration of the knowledge from different areas of the economics curriculum: microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics by applying concepts and frameworks to real life cases to formulate and implement creative and effective solutions to economic challenges; teamwork and presentations.

ECON 499 / ECONOMICS CAPSTONE
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 14:30:00-15:45:00Ön Koşullar: ECON 201, ECON 202, and ECON 311 at least 4 Economics area elective Courses

Integration of the knowledge from different areas of the economics curriculum: microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics by applying concepts and frameworks to real life cases to formulate and implement creative and effective solutions to economic challenges; teamwork and presentations.

ECON 499 / ECONOMICS CAPSTONE
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 10:00:00-11:15:00Ön Koşullar: ECON 201, ECON 202, and ECON 311 at least 4 Economics area elective Courses

Integration of the knowledge from different areas of the economics curriculum: microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics by applying concepts and frameworks to real life cases to formulate and implement creative and effective solutions to economic challenges; teamwork and presentations.

ECON 501 / MATHEMATICS FOR ECONOMISTS
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: THURSTimes: 11:30:00-14:15:00

Covers selected topics in mathematics that are frequently used in economic theory and its applications. Topics include: introduction to optimization theory (existence of a solution, alternative characterizations of compactness, Weirestrass Theorem, convexity); convex sets, concave and quasi-concave functions; characterization of a solution, Lagrange and Kuhn-Tucker approaches; parametric continuity, correspondences and maximum theorem; parametric monotonicity, lattices, supermodularity; fixed point theorems.

ECON 503 / MICROECONOMICS I
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MONTimes: 14:30:00-17:15:00

Consumer theory; production theory; general equilibrium and welfare.

ECON 511 / ECONOMETRICS I
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MONTimes: 13:00:00-14:15:00

Review of probability and statistics: random variables, univariate and joint probability distributions, expectations; bivariate normal; sampling distributions; introduction to asymptotic theory; estimation; inference. Linear regression: conditional expectation function; multiple regression; classical regression model, inference and applications.

ECON 513 / ADVANCED ECONOMETRICS
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: WEDTimes: 10:00:00-12:45:00

The focus of the course is the empirical applications and tests of macroeconomic and/or microeconomic theories. Students are provided with the ability to analyze the standard econometric applications.

ECON 590 / SEMINAR IN ECONOMICS
Term: Fall 2018Units 0Times: 0:00:00-0:00:00

Participation in weekly seminar is required.

EFIN 301 / CORPORATE FINANCE
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 8:30:00-9:45:00Ön Koşullar: MFIN. 202

Analysis of special corporate finance topics including dividend policy, capital structure, leasing, option valuation, risk management, mergers, and acquisitions.

EFIN 301 / CORPORATE FINANCE
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 10:00:00-11:15:00Ön Koşullar: MFIN. 202

Analysis of special corporate finance topics including dividend policy, capital structure, leasing, option valuation, risk management, mergers, and acquisitions.

EFIN 304 / INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 14:30:00-15:45:00Ön Koşullar: MFIN. 202

Introduction to the process of investing in financial securities; overview of the investment decision-making process; analysis of securities markets and trading practices; asset pricing under the capital asset pricing and the arbitrage pricing models; principles of modern portfolio theory; performance measurement techniques; asset allocation strategies; introduction to fixed income and derivative securites, risk management strategies.

EFIN 304 / INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: MON WEDTimes: 16:00:00-17:15:00Ön Koşullar: MFIN. 202

Introduction to the process of investing in financial securities; overview of the investment decision-making process; analysis of securities markets and trading practices; asset pricing under the capital asset pricing and the arbitrage pricing models; principles of modern portfolio theory; performance measurement techniques; asset allocation strategies; introduction to fixed income and derivative securites, risk management strategies.

EFIN 403 / FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS
Term: Fall 2018Units 3Days: TUES THURSTimes: 17:30:00-18:45:00Ön Koşullar: MFIN. 202

Structure of financial markets and financial intermediaries; interest rates and security valuation; central banking system and monetary policy; securities markets including money, capital, foreign exchange, and derivatives markets; commercial banking and other depository institutions; institutional investors, including investment banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, and pension funds; introduction to financial risk management.

ELEC 201 / SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Term: Fall 2018Units 4Days: MON WEDTimes: 8:30:00-9:45:00Ön Koşullar: MATH 107 & MATH 106

Introduction to discrete and continuous time signals and systems. Time-domain signal representations, impulse response of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, and convolution. Frequency domain signal representations, frequency response of LTI systems, and Fourier analysis. Filtering of continuous and discrete time signals. Sampling and discrete time processing of analog signals. Laplace-transform domain analysis of continuous-time LTI systems. Exercises using MATLAB.

ELEC 202 / CIRCUITS
Term: Fall 2018Units 4Days: TUES THURSTimes: 10:00:00-11:15:00Ön Koşullar: MATH 106 & MATH 107

DC Circuits, Basic Concepts, Basic Laws, Methods of Analysis, Circuit Theorems, Operational Amplifiers, Capacitors and Inductors, First-Order Circuits. AC Circuits: Sinusoids and Phasors, Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis, AC Power Analysis, , Magnetically Coupled Circuits, Applications of the Laplace Transform, Frequency Response, Bode plots

ELEC 204 / DIGITAL DESIGN
Term: Fall 2018Units 4Days: MON WEDTimes: 11:30:00-12:45:00

Computer technology, digital hardware, boolean algebra, logic functions and gates, canonical forms, simplification of boolean functions, Karnaugh maps, number systems, conversions, complement arithmetic, adders, multiplexers, tri-state outputs, decoders, encoders, sequential logic, flip-flops, sequential circuit analysis, sequential circuit design, registers and counters, memory and programmable logic, central processing unit. A design project.