Lesson plan / PUBLIC ECONOMY

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 7.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. MUSA KESKİN
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The course aims to teach the issues of Public revenue and expenditure policies, Government Budget, the historical development of Public's stake in economy, characteristics of public goods, political decision making mechanism and Turkish tax system, its characteristics and problems.
Course Content Course content; The reasons for the intervention of the state in the economy, the measurement of the size of the public sector, the reasons for the state's intervention in the economy, welfare economy, public goods, externalities, asymmetric information, imperfect competition, political decision-making mechanism, income distribution, poverty and reflection of taxes.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Definition of public economy, its borders and economic activities of the state
2Approaches to measuring the size of the public sector and explaining the increase in public expenditures
3Basic approaches to the state-economy relationship
4Welfare economics and pareto efficiency
5Social welfare and theories of society
6Public goods and effective presentation of public goods
7Financing the public good
8Midterm Exam
9Externalities and public solutions to externalities
10Special solutions to externalities and positive externalities
11Asymmetric information and its consequences
12Imperfect competition: Monopoly and natural monopoly
13Unanimity and majority rule in voting and parties in the democratic process
14Reflection of income distribution, poverty and tax

Resources

1. Fatih SAVAŞAN (2020), Kamu Ekonomisi, Ekin Yayınları.
2. Hülya KİRMANOĞLU (2019), Kamu Ekonomisi Analizi, Beta yayınları, 7. Baskı.
3. Güneri AKALIN (2016), Kamu Ekonomisi, Orion Yayınları, 5. baskı.