• Poverty Reduction Policies in Iran; Opportunities and Threats 

      Hosseini, Seyedahmad (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-06)
      Poverty reduction is one of the greatest challenges facing mankind and one of the main obstacles for wellbeing for a large part of the world population. New development paradigms have focused on reducing poverty. This ...
    • 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, ...
    • Private-Public Capital, Elasticity of Substitution and Economic Growth 

      Yıldırım, Abdulmecit (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-03)
      In the growth literature, Cobb-Douglas (CD), Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES), and Variable Elasticity of Substitution (VES) production functions are frequently used in analyzing the elasticity of substitution ...
    • 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 ...
    • Regime Dependent Effects of Inflation Uncertainty on Real Growth: A Markov Switching Approach 

      Caglayan, Mustafa; Kocaaslan, Ozge Kandemir; Mouratidis, Kostas (Wiley, 2016)
      We empirically investigate the effects of inflation uncertainty on output growth for the United States between 1960 and 2012. Modeling output dynamics within a Markov regime switching framework, we provide evidence that ...
    • Regional Economic Effects of Refugees: Turkish Case 

      Karaarslan, Muhammed Emin (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
      The conflicts in Syria started at year 2011 and series of events resulted with a massive amount of people to migrate some other countries. Turkey hosts the highest number of Syrian refugees in the World, about 3.6 million ...
    • 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 ...
    • Sağlığın İktisadi Büyümeye Etkisi: Türkiye İçin Üretim Fonksiyonu Yaklaşımı 

      Avcı, Halim Can (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
      Economic growth has attracted the attention of economists throughout history. However, until the Augmented Neo-Classical Growth Model developed by Mankiw, Romer and Weil, growth theories ignored the human capital factor. ...
    • Sermaye - Enerji İkame Edilebilirliği : Türkiye İmalat Sanayi Örneği 

      Sezer, Pınar (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
      In this study, capital-energy substitutability is analyzed for Turkish manufacturing industry firms between 2005-2013 using firm-level micro data. To this end, a translog cost function and cost share equations are jointly ...
    • Skill And Foreign Firm Premium: The Role Of Technology Gap And Labor Cost 

      Saglam, Bahar Bayraktar; Sayek, Selin (Igi Global, 2013)
      In this chapter, the authors construct a model that allows for joint discussion of foreign firm and skill premium in wages, and their evolution upon increased foreign firm activities. They allow for (1) dynamic interaction ...
    • Socioeconomic Variations In Induced Abortion In Turkey 

      Ankara, Hasan Giray (Cambridge Univ Press, 2017)
      This study aimed to identify the levels of, and socioeconomic variations in, income-related inequality in induced abortion among Turkish women. The study included 15,480 ever-married women of reproductive age (15-49) from ...
    • Stock Markets Connectedness 

      Gül Oral, Fatmanur (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018)
      The increase in political, economic and financial integration between countries affect the international market linkages. As a result of globalization in finance, a financial crisis occurred in one country can easily spread ...
    • The Analysis of 2008 Global Economic Crisis : The Case of Turkish Manufacturing Industry 

      Çakmak, İsmail (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
      This study aims to analyze the impact of the 2008 global economic crisis on Turkish manufacturing industry. Economic impacts of crisis have long been investigated; however, this study differentiates by using a new perspective ...
    • The Analysis of Regional Investment Incentives System in Turkey 

      Alıcı, Ahmet (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)
      Incentives are one of the most important economic policies implemented in order to direct the investment decisions of economic units. Incentives are implemented by countries for various purposes such as directing investments ...
    • The Crisis and After: There Is No Alternative? 

      Gur, Timur Han; Canpolat, Naci; Ozel, Huseyin (Savez Ekonomista Vojvodine, 2011)
      The present paper devises an account of the possibilities that the recent crisis opens up for capitalism, which dwells upon its history. The paper takes three propositions as its starting point: First, capitalism, which ...
    • 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 Informal Economy on Income Inequality: Evidence from Turkey 

      Elveren, Adem Y.; Ozgur, Gokcer (Savez Ekonomista Vojvodine, 2016)
      By considering the manufacturing pay inequality index as a proxy for overall income inequality and a novel index for the informal economy, this study analyzes the relationship between income inequality and the size of the ...