Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Wage returns to different levels of schooling in Turkey 
    Kıribrahim Sarıkaya, Özgen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    In this paper, I estimate the returns to the different levels of educational attainment, such as completing at least middle school, at least high school, and college for men and women in Turkey by using a fuzzy regression ...
  • Conditional commitments and the voluntary contributions mechanism :|an experimental study 
    Kart, Edip. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    In this paper, we present an agreement mechanism that uses the notion of conditional commitment to reach stable and efficient outcomes in the voluntary contributions mechanism. Theoretically, we show that the use of our ...
  • Modelling farmers’ marketing processes :|the case of the potato sector in Turkey’s Çorum province 
    Yıldıran, Safa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Many reports and calculations regarding the share of each actor in the final price of agricultural products show that there exists a downward pressure on producer prices. Even if a substantial body of the studies on the ...
  • Energy poverty and the characteristics of energy-poor households in Turkey 
    Kibar, Zehra Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Energy poverty is an important and distinct part of the multi-dimensional poverty concept and it is a growing concern in the international arena. There are many well-documented country-specific studies on the concept of ...
  • Economic valuation for rectificatory justice :|the case of the oil spill at Turkey’s Gencelli Bay 
    Aslan, Beste Gün. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    On August 29, 2018, an oil spill reached to the shores of Gencelli Bay, in Foça district, İzmir—a small scenic town which is home to environmentally protected areas with high ecosystem value and where people’s livelihood ...
  • Using machine learning to develop an asset allocation application 
    Erbay, Cihat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This paper aims to analyze factor mimicking portfolio (FMP) construction in the context of Machine Learning and use it in a practical application. Inflation is chosen as the target macroeconomic factor in this study. We ...
  • Interactions between economic integration and foreign direct investment: |a comparative analysis between Spain and Turkey 
    Karagözoğlu (Öz), Sumru. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1991., 1991.)
    This study tried to extract the effects of economic integration on foreign direct investment by comparing the performance of an economically integrated and an unintegrated country , spain and Turkey , respectively. Locational ...
  • Welfare analysis in an imperfectly competitive electricity market with distributed renewable generation 
    Sayıcı, Hüseyin Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis aims to analyze the optimal amount of renewable electricity generation in a dominant firm and a competitive fringe model. The dominant firm(s) produces non-renewable electricity and the fringe produces renewable ...
  • Regional differences in the effects of Turkey’s 1997 compulsory schooling policy 
    Ocal, Alp. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    In this thesis, we examined how the increased compulsory education from five to eight years, as a result of the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform, affected educational outcomes of women and men and rural and urban residents ...
  • Dropping out of the labor force :|women in Turkey 
    Genç, Yazğı. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    According to the microdata of Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) in 2017, the half amount of women are not in the labor force even though they are not disabled, retired or students. The share of the women who have worked ...
  • The effect of Syrian refugees on the school enrollment of youth in Turkey 
    Erbay, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Since the beginning of the Syrian conflicts, many people took refuge in neighboring countries. Turkey is the top refugee-hosting country today with the number of nearly 3.6 million registered refugees. This study is conducted ...
  • The impact of theSyrian refugee influx on Turkish capital movement 
    Runyun, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This research aims to understand the impactof Syrian migration influx on the capital flowinTurkey through theTurkish banking indicators.Specifically,wetryto estimate thechangeinmonetarystocksinsavingdepositaccountsandtheusageof ...
  • Comparing systemic risk measures during a financial crash 
    Kılıç, İnan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This paper investigates 2000 Turkish Banking Crisis utilizing market based and network based systemic risk measures. In this investigation, MES, SRISK and ΔCoVaR are taken as market based measures whereas Degree centrality, ...
  • Non-performing loans and asset management companies in Turkey 
    Pehlivan, Ömer Bedri. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    The objective of this thesis is to describe historical evolution of Turkey’s NPL levels and NPL disposal management in detail and show bank-specific factors affect banks’ NPL sale decisions. Despite the wide literature on ...
  • Statistical measures of systemic risk :|an application for the Turkish banking system 
    Barlas, Ali Batuhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this paper, we basically apply market data based statistical methods to measure systemic risk for the Turkish banking sector. In order to have a broad perspective on systemic risk with different dimensions, we employ ...
  • The effects of index constituent changes to Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 and BIST 30 indices 
    Aslan, Ramazan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis examines the quarterly index revisions of BIST 100 and BIST30 indices of Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange and tries to capture the effects and implications of these events on the prices and the volumes of the ...
  • A study on the skill premium and informality 
    Sakarya Barlas, Gaye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Skill premium as defined by the ratio of the skilled labor wage to the unskilled labor wage is said to be explained by the relative labor ratio and the equipment-skill ratio. In this paper, the relation between the skill ...
  • The effects of financial conditions on time and saving deposits :|a case study of Turkey 
    Şenkal, R. Güneş. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1990., 1990.)
    The purpose of this paper is to indicate, in the light of the past and recent trends, the areas and scope for domestic policy action for improving the process of domestic resource mobilization. This paper focuses on the ...
  • Firm size, volatility and labor market thickness 
    Özsoy, Mehlika. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this thesis, I investigate the relationship between labor market thickness and volatility of sales. Marshall suggests that thick markets occur since industrial organization increases productivity. In Principles of ...
  • A system dynamic macroeconomic model for an inquiry of income inequality and environmental impact 
    Dilek, Gökhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Ending hunger, reducing poverty and inequalities, and climate action are the main ob jectives of the political agenda in the recent years. However, these objectives may be in conflict. Economic growth is promoted to end ...

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