• Macroeconomic Determinants of Dollarization 

      Karaarslan, Muhammed Emin (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
      The dollarization phenomenon, which generally means the substitution of local currency or assets with foreign equivalents and which is important for developing countries has been the subject of many economic analyses and ...
    • Measuring the Economic Security: Comparison of Selected States and Blocks 

      Durak, Görkem (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
      Security Studies cover the security of referent units or organizations such as individuals or states. Since the Second World War, the scope and importance of Security Studies have increased. In the post-Cold War period, ...
    • Monetary Transmission Mechanism and Banking Sector: The Case of Turkey 

      Küçükönder, Abdullah (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)
      Changes in the financial and economic structure have put banks, particularly credit, at the center of economic policies in Türkiye over the last two decades. This dissertation examines the linkage between monetary transmission ...
    • NEOCLASSICAL EXPLOITATION: A BARGAINING MODEL WITH HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS AND WORKERS 

      Ahıskalı, Volkan (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
      The idiosyncratic imperfections of labor markets have been widely discussed in the literature. These unique features affect policy outcomes and effectiveness depending on the structure of the markets. This thesis investigates ...
    • Nonlınear Dynamıcs Between Investor Sentıment And Stock Movements: Evıdence From Borsa Istanbul 

      Gül, Aslıhan (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)
      The aim of this study is to examine nonlinear dynamics between both rational and irrational components of investor sentiment and stock market movements. In order to provide a proper explanation about total investor sentiment, ...
    • On the Contagion of Financial Risk 

      Atasoy, Burak Sencer (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)
      The global financial system has become highly interconnected over the past few decades and financial shocks have propagated faster, causing systemic events to occur more frequently. This dissertation examines systemic risk ...
    • Petrol Fiyatlarının Makroekonomik Etkileri Üzerine Üç Makale 

      Güllü Altun, Ayşegül (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)
      This thesis investigates the effects of oil prices on the Turkish economy in three separate yet related empirical studies. Motivated by structural instabilities pointed by pioneering studies in the related literature, ...
    • Predicting Financial Stress in Emerging Countries 

      Sönmez, Eray (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)
      Economic policies are designed to eliminate vulnerabilities while also increasing the welfare of the citizens. Yet, some undesirable factors could hinder these goals by distorting the functioning of the financial system, ...
    • Product Diversification and Relatedness: Evidence From Turkish Manufacturing Firms 

      Gültekin, Leventcan (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
      Economic diversification is a critical issue for the sustainability of growth due to its dynamic learning effect and risk-spreading dimension. To understand how the productive structure evolves in the economy, it is important ...
    • R&D Volatility and Firm Growth: The Case of Manufacturing Firms in Turkey 

      Yardımcı, Ebru Burcu (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021-07-14)
      The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of R&D volatility on firm growth in the Turkish manufacturing industry. Our empirical analysis covers the period 2006-2015 and relies on “The R&D Activities Survey in ...
    • Real Business Cycles in Emerging Economies 

      Karakoyun, Oğuz Kaan; Karakoyun, Oğuz Kaan (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
      Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) exhibit different economic dynamics compared to developed markets. While several EMEs have strong growth due to their trade surplus, most of them rely on imported inputs for their production ...
    • RENOVATION OF OLIGOPOLY THEORY IN THE LIGHT OF ALGORITHMIC STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING: A CASE STUDY FOR TURKISH CEMENT INDUSTRY 

      Yalcin, Yalciner (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-07-06)
      Oligopolistic markets, characterized by a few dominant firms, rely on interdependency theory to explain how companies’ strategies are influenced by their competitors. In the digital economy, data and computational capabilities ...
    • Robots and Human Labor: Dynamics, Intergenerational Impacts and Inequality 

      Aydın, Aslı (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020-09-23)
      In today's world, where the use of robots in production processes is increasing, future predictions about human labor constitute an important research subject. In this dissertation, the implications of rising robots on ...
    • The Dynamics of Growth Slowdown in Developed Economies 

      Kurt, İlay (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-01-18)
      Numerous studies have explored the dynamics and long-term effects of economic growth both theoretically and empirically. In this study, we examine the endogenous sources of economic growth and try to answer why the ...
    • The Effect of Renewable Energy Resources on Economıc Growth: A Case Study for Turkey 

      Aydoğan Gökcü, Tuğçe (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)
      The need for energy increases with the use of energy in almost every field, the development of technology and the increase in population, and this situation may lead to an increase in the dependence of countries on foreign ...
    • The Effects Of Energy Prices On Inflation And Monetary Policy: The Case Of Turkey 

      Çiçek, Muhammed Taha (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)
      The NARDL Bounds Test method was employed in the thesis study to examine the impact of energy prices on inflation in Türkiye during the period of 2012:01-2022:12. Furthermore, the study investigated the effects of energy ...
    • The Effects of Uncertainty in Energy Prices on the Economy of the Caspian Sea Countries: Evidences from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan 

      Abdullayev, Elshan (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-02-03)
      By taking into account the role of crude oil in the world economy, the prices of petrol become one of the main indicators of the economic growth. In addition, the uncertainty in the price of crude oil has various effects ...
    • The Estımatıon Of Burden Of Chronıc Dıseases In Turkey 

      Balık, Burak (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)
      Chronic diseases are increasing overtime in the world and its treatments can be more not only risky but also costly. However, patients with chronic diseases should learn how to live with it. In that sense, managing the ...
    • The Evolution of Market Power and Its Relation With Inflation in Türkiye 

      Pişmaf, Şamil (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)
      In this study, I analyzed the evolution of market power in Türkiye between the 2006-2021 period by estimating firm-level and aggregated markups with a data-set covering a vast majority of Turkish industries. I also examined ...
    • The Global Social Progress Frontier 

      Karimova, Shokhida (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)
      The need to measure social well-being of a society has gained the same importance as the estimation of national wealth, since many have started to notice that national wealth is not efficiently used in the benefit of ...