Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • The dynamics of employment growth in Turkey and the creative destruction during the great recession 
    Acar, Uğurcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this study, I empirically research the extent to which firms contribute the employment growth and how these contributions changed during the Great Recession. Business Registers dataset (2005-2017) compiled by the ...
  • Macro stress testing on the credit risk of the banking sector in Turkey 
    Toktabekov, Baurzhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In our thesis research we conduct a stress test of banking sector in Turkey. Firstly, we develop a model where we regress total and sectoral NPL rates on their lags and macroeconomic indicators. By using the results of the ...
  • Competition and the distance puzzle 
    Selçuk, Serdar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis aims to investigate the empirical relevance of the impact of sectoral competition on the increasing negative impact of geographic distance on international trade flows vis-a-vis the secular decline in the ...
  • The informal borrowing ratio in Turkey 
    Gültürk, Ezgi Sevinç. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study aims to analyze empirically the behavior of individuals with respect to the choice between formal and informal borrowing. Informal borrowing stands for the borrowing practiced through informal institutions ...
  • A welfare comparison of life-cycle investment strategies for Turkey 
    Khodzhimatov, Ravshanbek. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    We perform an in-depth welfare comparison of the most common life-cycle investment strategies provided by retirement funds or suggested by classical portfolio theory in the case of households in Turkey. To perform our ...
  • Redesigning the high school placement mechanism in Turkey 
    Taşçı, Emine. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this thesis, we study the placement mechanism used for matching eight grade students and high schools in Turkey. We observe that the mechanism does not satisfy the most desirable properties such as individual rationality, ...
  • Historical determinants of state capacity 
    Çineli, İpek Tuğçe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    High state capacity is associated with a specific type of state: modern fiscal and bureaucratic state. This study argues that modern fiscal state first emerged in Europe, and later diffused around the world. Early statehood ...
  • The welfare effects of changes in global food prices on income distribution in Turkey 
    Akar, Hüseyin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study examines the pass-through effects of global food prices on food prices in Turkey, and the welfare effects of food price changes on income distribution in Turkey. Food products are the indispensable part of the ...
  • The impact of climate change on Turkish agriculture:|An analysis of crop yields and acreage decision 
    Çatmakaş, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    his study construes the impact of climate change on crop (barley, corn, sunflower, wheat) acreage and yield by focusing on the Turkish districts between the period 2009-2017. After detecting spatial autocorrelation among ...
  • Agglomeration, concentration, and misallocation 
    Aydın, Ahmet Yusuf. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Misallocation may cause extensive productivity and output loss in sectors and coun tries. I use firm-level data for Spain to investigate the misallocation in Spain with a focus on the effect of agglomeration on allocative ...
  • Preserving priorities in the case of the Re-placement of medical residents in Turkey 
    Bilgin, Günnur Ege. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this paper, we analyze the re-placement mechanism used in the Examination of Specialty in Medicine in Turkey, following the correction of a miscalculation in the scores. We observe that the preservation of vested ...
  • The investment performanceofa pension fund’s individual investors: A behavioral finance approac 
    Okar, Yiğit. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this thesis, we investigated the portfolio choice and trading characteristics of individuals using data from pension accounts. The data contains nearly 17000 individuals' accounts during 'the years 2008-2013. Various ...
  • Leasing state economic enterprises against foreign dept payments 
    Altaş, M. Orhan. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1990., 1990.)
    The Turkish economy is facing many problems in early 1990s. Especially State Economic Enterprises place a heavy burden on the economy and play an important role in these problems. In order to increase the efficiency,productivity ...
  • A performance analysis of commercial banks in Turkey 
    Şenses, Hazal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this study, I analyze the performance of the commercial banks in Turkey using the CAMEL approach and investigate the relationship between loan growth and soundness indicators such as asset quality, profitability and ...
  • The effect of the 2008 employment subsidy program in Turkey 
    İnan, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study examines the effect of an employment subsidy program initiated in 2008 on labor market outcomes of women. Since one of the recent problems in Turkish labor market is low female employment rate, it is important ...
  • An econometric analysisof the impactof Syrian refugees on crime in Turkey 
    Türküm, Fatma Betül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2018.)
    A common apprehension is that im.rrllgration raises crime rates. Yet, existing academic research has revealed no such outcome. Past and current studies discover that at the individual level, immigrants are not more prone ...
  • The importance and position of the flat glass sector within the glass industry of Turkey between 1977-1984 
    Yakut, Nilgün. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
    The steering role of industries are very important in developing countries. Determining functions of especially some industries have vital places in these economies. Among them, construction industry has a very considerable ...
  • Building a financial conditionsiIndex for Turkey 
    Çakır, Bayram. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The rapid expansion of financial markets in the last decades has increased the role of financial markets on economic activities. Given that most of macroeconomic models which only include interest rate and exchange rate ...
  • Economic concentration, labor misallocation and exchange rate shocks 
    Akhan, Nihan Nur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this paper, I empirically investigate the effect of economic agglomeration on resource misallocation. Using data on the universe of manufacturing firms in Turkey between 2005 and 2015 and firm specific exchange rates as ...
  • Evaluating the impact of Syrian refugees on Turkey’s labor market: A synthetic control approach 
    Aracı, Doğu Tan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this paper, the impact of recent Syrian refugee wave on natives’ labor market outcomes in Turkey is analyzed. The synthetic control method is used for the analysis, where for each treated region, a synthetic control ...