Globalization and Financial Crises(ECON458)
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theory | Practice | Lab | Credit | ECTS |
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ECON458 | Globalization and Financial Crises | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
Prerequisites | |
Admission Requirements |
Language of Instruction | French |
Course Type | Elective |
Course Level | Bachelor Degree |
Course Instructor(s) | Sevgi GENCAY İNECİ sineci@gsu.edu.tr (Email) |
Assistant | |
Objective | This course introduces students to the key theoretical approaches for understanding the relationship between globalization and financial crises. |
Content | Undergraduate programme |
Course Learning Outcomes |
By the end of this course students wil be eable, • identify business cycles by using leading indicators, • establish a link between business cycles and financial crises, • understand the influence of financial liberalisation on weak banking system, • understand the reasons for recurrences of financial crises, • learn about the international banking regulations concerning weak banking system (Basel I: II,III). |
Teaching and Learning Methods | Theoretical |
References | Course document and selected articles |
Theory Topics
Week | Weekly Contents |
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1 | Introduction: Financial Globalization |
2 | Business cycles, identification of the cycles, deterministic and stochastic interpretation |
3 | Theory of the “ real conjectural cycles |
4 | Exchange rate Crises and Macroeconomic vulnerability: First generation crises, second generation crises and third generation crises |
5 | The Developing Country Debt Problems: Origin of debt crisis, structural characteristics of the indebted countries, capital flight. |
6 | Case Studies: financial globalization and crises: Banking and financial Crises, |
7 | The 1987 Crisis and Banking Panic: Contagion effect. |
8 | Financial Crises on Emerging Economies: |
9 | The 1997 Asian Crisis and 1998 Russian Crisis. |
10 | Latin American Crisis. |
11 | The Global Credit Crisis (2008-2009 |
12 | Reforms on International Financial Systems: Basel I, Basel II.., |
13 | Crisis Management and International Interventions. |
14 | Students Homework Presentations. |
Practice Topics
Week | Weekly Contents |
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Contribution to Overall Grade
Number | Contribution | |
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Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 1 | 50 |
Contribution of final exam to overall grade | 1 | 50 |
Toplam | 2 | 100 |
In-Term Studies
Number | Contribution | |
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Assignments | 5 | 10 |
Assignments | 2 | 5 |
Presentation | 5 | 10 |
Presentation | 10 | 0 |
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 5 |
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 6 |
Other Applications | 2 | 5 |
Seminar | 1 | 1 |
Other | 1 | 1 |
Toplam | 28 | 43 |
No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Activities | Number | Period | Total Workload |
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Class Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Working Hours out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Assignments | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Presentation | 10 | 3 | 30 |
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Other Applications | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Final Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 8 | 8 |
Other | 2 | 6 | 12 |
Total Workload | 130 | ||
Total Workload / 25 | 5,20 | ||
Credits ECTS | 5 |