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  • Household indebtedness and financial literacy in Turkey 
    Daşdöğen, Sezgin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis aims to understand which factors affect households’ decision to enter the credit market and the amount of debt they obtain, using data from the Credit Card Consumer Survey conducted in 2009 on 2576 credit card ...
  • Risk sharing rules and investment in groups 
    Cangüven, Gökçen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In this study, we consider a game among n investors, who individually choose to borrow a certain amount to invest in a risky project. We assume that the success probabilities for the risky projects are independent and that ...
  • Achieving growth through social innovation: a beyond GDP trial. Case studies of Turkey and Russia 
    Chiklyaukova, Ekaterina. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Beyond GDP approach emphasizes that GDP alone is not comprehensive enough to capture the factors that contribute to the growth in the society. For several years, academicians try to identify the perfect indicator, which ...
  • Empirical essays on the informal economy 
    Başbay, Mustafa Metin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In this masters thesis, I empirically study the informal sector in two separate essays, both of which have implications for policy making and make original contributions to the understanding of informality around the world. ...
  • Dynamic voluntary contribution under time-inconsistency 
    Altınok, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    I study the voluntary public good provision model and introduce time inconsistent agents who have {u100000} preferences. There is a public project and finitely many agents where each agent is allowed to contribute any ...
  • The impact of charity effort and transparency on the price elasticity of charitable giving 
    Peker, Ahmet Cem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Empirical studies suggest that donors are not very responsive to changes in tax/subsidy policies. We construct a framework in which donors imperfectly observe charity's e ort to provide charitable goods/services. Effort ...
  • 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 ...
  • International trade and informality 
    Demirci, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this thesis, we empirically and theoretically investigate whether the presence of an informal sector contributes positively to exports of an economy. Using annual bilateral trade data of 161 economies over the period ...
  • The relationship between state and capital: the reconstruction of soccer stadiums as an urban transformation project 
    Bayralı, Önsel Gürel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This study analyzes the relation between state and capital in Turkey to provide an account of the accumulation strategy during the AKP period (between 2002–2015) by focusing on a discernable trend in urban transformation ...
  • Electoral rules and strategic voting in Turkey 
    Adıgüzel, Fatih Serkant. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In the rst chapter, we construct and analyze counterfactual election results under di erent electoral rules and levels of strategic voting. We rst divide each of the existing 85 districts in order to de ne 550 hypothetical ...
  • Financing public expenditures through progressive taxation: effects on growth, welfare and inequality 
    Ünsal, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Theoretical and empirical studies have revealed that there is a positive impact of public investments, i.e. infrastructure investments, on economic growth. Noting that the growth literature containing productive public ...
  • Informality and inequality dynamics in a two-sector Ramsey-type growth model 
    Kaba, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis develops a two-sector Ramsey type growth model with heterogeneous agents differing in terms of their initial endowment of capital. The informality level and income/wealth distributions are generated endogenously ...
  • Cooperation and policy interventions: Field experiments with small-scale fishing communities in Turkey 
    Ertör Akyazı, Pınar. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the vast literature on environmental policy instruments and resource use dilemmas via an experimental approach. Based on framed field experiments conducted with members of ...
  • Applications of network segregation measures 
    Bilsel, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this thesis, the main purpose is to measure the political segregation level of main four party voter groups in Turkey. Political segregation is the degree to which political groups live apart. The segregation index is ...
  • The effects of compulsory schooling laws on women’s status in the family 
    Usta, Emine Kübra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this study we investigate the impacts of 1997 Compulsory Education Reform in Turkey on women’s status in the family. With the reform, the duration of compulsory schooling was extended to 8 years from 5 years. Individuals ...
  • Two essays on macroeconomics 
    Tosun, Hasan Kadir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis is composed of two essays on macroeconomics. In the first essay, motivated by the empirical evidence that implies a negative correlation between government trust and the size of informal sector, we develop a ...
  • Three essays in dynamic macroeconomics 
    Öztunalı, Oğuz. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis consists of three essays on dynamic macroeconomics. The first essay focuses on the relationship between government policy, education and wage inequality in a theoretical environment similar to the ones described ...
  • 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 ...

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