Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • The impact of Syrian immigrants on the wages of unskilled natives in Turkey 
    Göğebakan, Anıl. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The armed conflict of the Syrian Civil War that has led many people emigrate from Syria to other countries started in March 2011. As one of the neighbours of Syria, Turkey has received more Syrian immigrants than any other ...
  • Unorthodox monetary policy with real-time measurements 
    Akgün, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this study, asymmetric interest rate corridor which is a part of Central Bank of Republic of Turkey’s unorthodox monetary policy is analyzed between the period 2011 and 2017. Using Bayesian filtering methods, output and ...
  • A neuroeconomic analysis of intertemporal decision-making: EEG source localization 
    Başaşçı, Mustafa Sami. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Using EEG, we studied the neural correlates of intertemporal decision making when subjects made binary choices between smaller/earlier and larger/later money amounts for 40 trials. We analyzed EEG data by using preprocessing ...
  • The impacts of improving educational attainment on the empowerment of women 
    Başkurt, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    We studied effects of 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey, which increased compulsory schooling from 5 years to 8 years on the empowerment of women. Individuals born before 1987 were not exposed to the reform, and ...
  • Measures of individual risk attitudes and portfolio choice: Evidence from an investment competition 
    Armut, Hanife. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this paper, I employ a large incentivized student sample who are also participants of an investment competition to investigate how different risk-attitude measurements have a relation with each olher, with demographic ...
  • Two essays on macroeconomics 
    Türk, Tuğçe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis is composed of two essays on macroeconomics. In the first one, the aim is to understand the role of the informal sector in determining countries’ access to the world technology frontier as well as to their own ...
  • Optimum currency areas: |political and economic optimums of the European monetary system 
    Günan, R. Engin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
  • Carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth and openness in Turkey: An ARDL model 
    Kara, İbrahim Murat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this thesis, I examine the effects of economic growth and trade openness on carbon dioxide emissions in Turkey for the period 1960-2014. Before the empirical analysis, there is an overview about the recent literature ...
  • On the number of brackets in piecewise linear income tax systems: An application 
    Bodur, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis aims to explore the welfare impacts of using different number of brackets to collect a specific amount of tax revenue in a piecewise linear income tax system. It does this by analyzing the effect of the number ...
  • Real exchange rate and export behavior: Firm level evidence 
    Dönmez, Anıl. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In this thesis, the effect of bilateral real exchange rate changes on the firm-level export behavior of the Turkish manufacturing sector is investigated. Using the detailed panel of Turkish customs and industry data sets ...
  • Substitution elasticities in an energy-augmented CES production function: An empirical analysis for Turkey 
    Küçük, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Energy is an undebatable key element in today’s modern world. Whether it is the residential sector, services sector or the industry, the role of energy in our lives is highly important. This importance gets only magnified ...
  • Asymmetric price transmission in the Turkish dried nuts market: Does it verify market power? 
    Yapıcı, Ümit. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This research addresses the fundamental reasons for price spikes in agricultural commodity prices in Turkey, focusing primarily on dried foods. The main claim is that the retail chains have the power to manipulate the ...
  • Horizontal coordination and transparency of information 
    Topbaş, Yunus. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Rational agents might choose to invest in a certain kind of capital in a period in the hope of making higher returns from their investments made in consecutive periods. We examine the impact of such an interaction on the ...
  • Two essays on applied economics 
    Aydoğdu, Ertunç. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis is composed of two essays on applied economics. In the first, I examine the risk-laden choices of contestants in the TV game show, “Var Mısın Yok Musun?”. I had three objectives in exploiting a dataset of 248 ...
  • The timing of uncertainty resolution in gift-exchange experiments 
    Bulut, Beste. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In this study, we investigate the effect of random outcomes and timing of outcome realization on labor market by conducting gift-exchange laboratory experiment. The employer makes a wage offer and the agent, upon observing ...
  • The influence of group decision making on search behavior 
    Destan, Cavit Görkem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    We study a multi-agent search problem within an experimental framework. Two agents search separately with their own search costs for a reward that is common for both which can create a free-rider problem. In general, we ...
  • The cost of switching: Evidence from the Turkish pension fund system 
    Erhan, Damla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this study, we investigate the effect of participant characteristics on trading activity and how trading activity relates to investment performance in private pension fund accounts for Turkey case. To conduct this ...
  • Distributional dynamics of sectoral change in the long run 
    Toka, Fatma Kübra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis explores the link between structural change and income distribution by using a two sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents. Asymmetric external effects which stem from the “catching up with ...
  • An investigation of the change in the severe material deprivation rate of Turkey 
    Atasü, Seniha İdil. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    On September 2014, Turkish Statistical Institute has announced the results of the Income and Living Conditions Survey for 2013. According to the survey the severe material deprivation rate, which is defined as the percentage ...
  • The impact of Syrian refugees on the Turkish labor market 
    Aksu, Ege. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The Syrian civil war that started in 2011, has caused millions of Syrians fled from their country. As one of the closest countries, Turkey has received more refugees than any other neighboring countries. The figure as of ...