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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / İKT-538 - ECONOMICS (MA-WITH THESIS)

Code: İKT-538 Course Title: INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 5
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department ECONOMICS (MA-WITH THESIS)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer SERAP ÇOBAN (seraps@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The purpose of this course, the phenomenon of institutional economics, traditional and contemporary qualities of mind to know and to understand its place in the schools of economic thought.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Be able to explain the importance of rules and the development of economic and social life PO-11 have ability on defining economic variables and comment on the relationships between these variables.
Examination
LO-2 Be able to discuss the economic reality of the formal economy except for classical approaches PO-14 can respect different religions, life styles and question the information in the view of scholar idea.
Examination
LO-3 Be able to analyze the relationship between changes in the institutional structure and economic performance PO-18 can refresh information and ability, global economic developments demand, recognizing his/her professional ethic and responsibilities.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Actual Institutional Economics (Original Institutional Economics), and this criticism is based on criticism of the theory of classical economics school will focus on fundamentals. Where the Old and New Institutional Economics approach shows parallels and is intended to see what points separated from each other.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Conceptual Framework of Institutional Economics lecturing
2 Historical Development of Institutional Economics: German Historicist School, the Austrian School, the Freiburg School, the American İnstitutionalism lecturing
3 Historical Development of Institutional Economics: Evaluation of the Old Institutional Economics and Emergence of New Institutional Economics lecturing
4 Economic Analysis of Institutions lecturing
5 Theory of Transaction Costs lecturing
6 Absolute Property Rights: Ownership of physical objects, Private Property, Rights and Economic Analysis lecturing
7 Relative Property Rights: Contract Obligations lecturing
8 mid-term exam
9 Contract Theory: The Administrative Theory of the Firm, Principal-Agent Model: Moral Vulnerabilities, contrary election, Implicit Contracts and Incomplete Contracts Model lecturing
10 New Institutional Economics Approach Market, Company and the State on the Application Areas: Layout, Basic Rules, Organizations and Social Networks lecturing
11 Positive Externalities lecturing
12 Bounded Rationality lecturing
13 Market and State in New Institutional Economics lecturing
14 Firm in New Institutional Economics lecturing
15 Impact on Institutions and Economic Performance lecturing
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Douglass C. North, Kurumlar, Kurumsal Değişim ve Ekonomik Performans, Sabancı Ünivesitesi Yayınları: İstanbul, 2002.
2 Eirik G. Furubotn; Rudolf Richter, Institutions and Economic Theory: The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics, University of Michigan Press: Michigan, 2005
Required Course instruments and materials

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 14 42
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 7 14
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 3 7 21
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 4 7 28
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 149