MA in Economics

Why Economics at Ibn Haldun University?

The scope of economics, which mainly focuses on the studies of the use of scarce resources to meet human needs, has expanded its coverage from analyses of the economic behavior of individuals and firms to the analysis of the economic behavior of countries and international institutions. Economic behavior has become a subject that requires analysis at the global level due to the rapid development of information and communication technologies in the 1990s. In addition, companies operating at the worldwide level prepare their strategies with optimization at the global level. This reduces the constraints imposed on the national level of economic behavior and requires a global structure that allows for the free movement of goods and services and factors of production such as capital and labor. Although the worldwide crisis of 2008 has some consequences that will cause the effects of nation-states on economic behavior to rise again, economic globalization is continuing.

These developments at the global level have increased the importance of economics as a science. The analysis of labor, money, and capital markets and products in goods and services markets, as well as the interaction between these markets, is vital in understanding the policies that need to be developed at the national and global levels. In this respect, universities have a significant role. The rising of human resources with knowledge and experience of basic concepts of economy, methods of analysis, and economic policies will contribute to the sustainable development of the countries and the continuation of their competitive advantages. Moreover, it is possible to improve human resource potential in this area through graduate programs.

İbn Haldun University's Master of Arts in Economics program is expected to contribute to students coming from different undergraduate majors to gain the ability to understand and evaluate the changes in local and global economics. In addition to the core courses for two years, a variety of elective courses will allow the participants to apply theory to the current economic issues and prepare the theses. As the medium of instruction in the program is English, the graduates are expected to be employed at national and international organizations.

Our graduate program offers theoretical courses such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, research methods, and econometrics to gain the ability to understand and interpret national and global economic events, as well as sectoral courses that will provide specialization in areas such as energy, environment, foreign trade, finance, real estate, infrastructure, and transportation.

Courses

• ECON 500 Seminar
• ECON 501 Research Methods and Publication Ethics
• ECON 503 Microeconomic Analysis
• ECON 504 Microeconomic Theory
• ECON 505 Macroeconomic Analysis
• ECON 506 Macroeconomic Theory
• ECON 508 Econometrics

Electives

• ECON 510 International Economics
• ECON 511 Innovation Economics
• ECON 512 Game Theory
• ECON 513 Monetary Economics
• ECON 514 Industrial Economics
• ECON 515 Energy Economics
• ECON 516 Public Economics
• ECON 517 Time Series Econometrics
• ECON 518 Panel Data and Cross-Section Models
• ECON 519 Environmental Economics
• ECON 520 Development Economics
• ECON 521 Transport Economics
• ECON 522 Real Estate and Urban Economics
• ECON 523 Islamic Economics and Finance
• ECON 524 Economic Jurisprudence in Islam
• ECON 525 Islam and Political Economy
• ECON 527 Behavioral Economics and Finance
• ECON 528 Labor Economics
• ECON 545 Current Issues in the Turkish Economy
• ECON 546 Economic History of Modern Turkey
• ECON 550 Selected Issues in Economics
• EFIN 518 Islamic Finance