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SUBFIELDS OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND THEIR SUBJECTS

At our faculty, the Department of Public Finance is divided into five subfields. The respective subfields and their primary areas of study are as follows:

  1. Public Finance Theory: Public revenues, public expenditures, public debt, public goods, externalities, tax theory, tax burden, tax incidence, tax psychology, tax compliance, fiscal incentive system, R&D expenditures, local government finance, taxpayer behavior, taxation and foreign direct investments, emerging economies and public finance, fiscal sociology.

  2. Fiscal Law: Principles of taxation, taxpayer obligations, taxpayer rights, taxation process, tax misdemeanors and crimes, resolution of tax disputes, tax administration, tax auditing, tax jurisdiction, tax enforcement, international taxation, taxation of individuals, taxation of corporations, transfer pricing, tax evasion, rewriting of tax laws, e-taxation system, taxation of the financial sector.

  3. Fiscal Economics: Fiscal policy, public economy, public sector balance, economic crises and fiscal policy, economic development and taxation, welfare economics and optimal taxation, welfare economics and economic development, welfare economics and income distribution, debt burden and economic stability, political institutions and fiscal capacity, income distribution and public policies, market failures and fiscal policy, innovation and public policies, efficiency in the public sector, quality of public services.

  4. Budget and Fiscal Planning: Public budgeting, budgetary systems, budgetary principles, budgetary process, budgetary practices, budget auditing, budgetary rights, fiscal planning, participatory budgeting, new budgeting approaches, fiscal transparency and accountability, treasury operations, public procurement procedures, public entrepreneurship and privatization.

  5. History of Public Finance: Pre-Islamic period, Post-Islamic period, Republican era, Non-Turkish history of public finance.