Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • A dynamic investment model under time-inconsistency 
    Karaçay, Bernes. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    In this study, we analyze a three period dynamic investment model where a principal interacts with an agent who is time-inconsistent. We use preferences to capture time-inconsistency as it is widely used in the literature. ...
  • The effects of capacity problem in an era of decreasing non-renewable resources 
    Karahan, Erdal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The aim of this thesis is to establish a model where we can analyze the effect of capacity investments on the optimal choices of economic agents in an era of decreasing non-renewable energy resources. We employed a discrete ...
  • An assessment of coping mechanisms with poverty in Turkey after the 2008 global crisis: A study based on Turkey Welfare Monitoring Survey 
    Ergün, Buse. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The thesis evaluates the variation among low income people's strategies for coping with poverty in Turkey after the 2008 global crisis and tries to understand the main factors and characteristic differences leading to ...
  • An introduction to the differential-integral formulation of the labour-theory of value 
    İnhan, S. Mehmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1984., 1984.)
  • Consumer preferences in the Turkish credit card market 
    Özer, Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This thesis unveils the preferences of consumers in the Turkish credit card market. By using the data obtained from a nationwide credit card consumer survey and employing a multinomial pro bit analysis, the factors that ...
  • Revenue neutral tax reforms in a DSGE model with home production and infinitely lived agents 
    Demir, İbrahim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The subject of this thesis is to explore the effects of two revenue neutral tax reforms on equity, efficieny and welfare of the society. In order to do this a DSGE model with infinitely lived agents and uninsurable ...
  • Macro stress-testing approach of credit risk: evidence from Turkey 
    Polat, Ali Yavuz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    There is a vast literature on financial stability issue after the onset of the recent global financial crises. Stress-testing, which can be defined as the techniques used by policy makers to assess the vulnerability of the ...
  • Empirical analysis of agricultural commodity prices 
    Öz, Mustafa Safa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    In the last ten years, Turkey has imported, on average, 60 percent of cotton used in the country from the USA. Hence, the relationship between cotton prices in Turkey and the USA is of significant importance. In this ...
  • Determinants of customer satisfaction in the Turkish credit card market 
    Özçelik, Serap. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis investigates factors affecting the satisfaction levels of Turkish credit card holders using a recent nationwide credit card consumer survey. Ordered pro bit model estimations show that among other things, ...
  • Welfare implications of competition in a vertical market structure: a case of accumulator industry 
    Yıldız, Sümeyya. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The accumulator industry exhibits a typical example of a vertical market structure, where waste accumulators are collected, then recycled in order to extract lead, which is subsequently used as the main input in the ...
  • From gecekondu to apartmankondu: economic transformation of the squatter settlers of Rumeli Hisarüstü from 1960 onward 
    Özdabak, İrfan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    In this study the primary and secondary transformation of the economic lives of the squatter settlers of Rumeli Hisarüstü in line with the building up of gecekondu/ gunduzkondu/ apartmankondu from 1960 onwards, the impact ...
  • Urbanization and structural change in an endogenous growth setting 
    Türkgülü, Burak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis studies the implications of a Romer-type endogenous technological growth on urbanization and structural change using a two-sector, continuous-time growth model. We make use of the tight link between urbanization ...
  • Essays on switching costs in the Turkish credit card market 
    Alkan, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis consists of two essays. The first essay analyses the switching behaviour of the Turkish credit cardholders by using a very recent survey data. Customers that value bank level characteristics of the card are ...
  • Erasmus student exchange programme: a placement problem 
    Akkaya, Ekrem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    I analyze the placement mechanism used at Boğaziçi University in order to place students to positions offered by partner institutions according to the Erasmus Student Exchange Programme. First, I define the placement problem ...
  • The Analysis of citizens' preferences for energy investment alternatives in Turkey: Nuclear versus renewable energy 
    Akyazı, Pınar Ertör. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Climate change and energy security are the two central issues in today’s energy policies. Two main policies are increasingly considered as the way to deal with these issues: Expansion of nuclear energy and a greater reliance ...
  • Sources of inflation in Turkey an eclectic analysis 
    Akışık, Orhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1984., 1984.)
  • Labor force participation of women in Turkey: a microeconometric analysis 
    Aktakke, Nazlı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis tries to shed light on the determinants of labor force participation of married women in urban Turkey. Thesis has two main focus points; first is to find out the possible determinants of participation of women ...
  • Demand, competition and welfare analysis in the Turkish banking sector 
    İleri, Şebnem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis investigates consumer demand, competition and welfare in the Turkish deposit and credit markets in 2002-2009 period by using banks’market shares in these markets. A discrete choice structural demand model ...
  • Tax policy and informal economy within the context of productive government expenditures 
    Savcı, Çağrı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Using a DGE model, the thesis is an attempt to illustrate the dynamics of informal sector in relation to changes in tax policy within the context of productive government expenditures. By the help of calibration exercise, ...
  • A Network analysis of Turkish financial crisis of 2000 
    Yenilmez, Taylan Eren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis is an attempt to explain Turkish financial crisis of 2000 in the light of network theory. Our contribution is applying network theory to a very special data that spans pre-crisis and crisis periods. Analyzing ...