Information Package / Course Catalogue
Public Finance II
Course Code: ML102
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

To gain information to students about understanding the importance of goverment in economic framework. Also the another aim is to analyse economic activities theoritical and practical, especially the effects of public expenditures.

Course Content

The importance of government and the reasons of government intervention to economics, welfare economics, measuring welfare with different methods, pure and impure public goods, public preferences, bureaucracy, externalities, analysis of public expenditure, cost-benefit analysis, public expenditures on Turkish economy, market failure, general equilibrium and partial equilibrium analysis of public goods production, public income and classification of taxes.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Hamza KAHRİMAN
Learning Outcomes
1.To be explaining basic concept of public economics
2.To be analysing Turkish public expenditures
3.To be measure well-being with variety of approaches
4.The tax structure, and understanding the process
5.Turkish budget process and analysis
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Şener O., “Kamu Ekonomisi” Alkım Yayınları, 2010
2.C.V. Brown and P.M. Jackson, “Public Sector Economics” Fourth Edition, Blackwell, Oxford, 1990
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Tax Theory
Week 2 - Theoretical
Classification of taxes: direct and indirect taxes
Week 3 - Theoretical
Classification of taxes: subjective-objective taxes
Week 4 - Theoretical
Classification of taxes: income-expenditure-wealth taxes
Week 5 - Theoretical
Principles of Taxation: definition, purpose and classification
Week 6 - Theoretical
Concept of tax turden, tax capacity, tax effort
Week 7 - Theoretical
Concept of tax turden, tax capacity, tax effort
Week 8 - Theoretical
Reflection of Tax, Tax Depreciation and capitalization
Week 9 - Theoretical
Reflection of Tax, Tax Depreciation and capitalization
Week 10 - Theoretical
Public debt
Week 11 - Theoretical
Local Government Finance
Week 12 - Theoretical
Public budget
Week 13 - Theoretical
Turkish Tax System
Week 14 - Theoretical
Turkish Tax System
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory143384
Assignment1336
Individual Work32315
Midterm Examination1819
Final Examination1819
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)123
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
OÇ-1
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
OÇ-2
4
5
5
4
4
5
5
OÇ-3
5
5
4
5
5
4
4
OÇ-4
OÇ-5
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026