İktisat: Recent submissions

  • Essays on growth, structural change and taxation 
    Höke, Fatma Kübra. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis examines economies’ long-run dynamics with theoretical and empirical tools. It is composed of three chapters. In Chapter 1, we provide evidence for the labor share, structural change, fixed costs, and productivity ...
  • Markups, endogenous market power and misallocation in Turkey 
    Karagöz, Korcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Analyzing firms’ market power and the related aggregate misallocation is one of the intriguing subjects of the macroeconomics research frontier. However, market power and misallocation are mostly treated as exogenous ...
  • Essays on Turkish private hospital industry :|dynamics of market structure, health reforms and regulations 
    Boyacı, İsrafil. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis consists of three essays on empirical industrial organization. The first chapter focuses on the hospital industry environment in Turkey, provides a comprehensive picture of the industry, and also sets the ...
  • Current account adjustment in Turkey : 1923-2002 
    Yücel, Yelda. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    In this thesis the balance of payments of Turkey between 1923-2002 is examined with special emphasis on current account adjustment. One of the targets is to evaluate the balance of payments under different economic regimes ...
  • 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 ...
  • Three essays in industrial organization 
    Işık, Mehtap. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    In the first chapter of the thesis, we consider the formation of networks over which a public good is produced (as opposed to considering given and fixed network structures). We identify that the multiplicity of equilibria ...
  • 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 ...
  • Turkey's transfer problem in the 1980s :|the external and the internal adjustment mechanisms 
    İzmen, Ümit 1961- (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    This thesis attempts an empirical interpretation of the Turkish transfer problem during the 1980's, the main cause of which is the debt selVice obligations. The thesis investigates how Turkey attempted to solve the twin ...
  • Short-run structural rigidities and supply performance in a financially repressed economy: |the case of Turkey 
    Doğruel, A. Suut. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
    In the beginning of the 1980, a stabilization prograrrce was introduced fulder the auspices of the IMF as a remedy to high rate of inflation and excessive balance of payment deficits experienced in Turkey. After five-year ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • A horse race among models of strategic thinking across similar games 
    Emirahmetoğlu, İbrahim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Human behavior generally deviates from equilibrium in one-shot games. For this reason, a number of strategic thinking models which relax one or more assumptions of equilibrium have emerged. A natural extension to the ...
  • The Parisian Regulation Approach: capitalism as a panoply of crisis tendencies 
    Güven, Barış. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In this study, I analyze the Parisian Regulation Approach (PRA) developed as an intellectual response to the structural crisis of capitalism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In theoretical and relational axes, I examine ...
  • A comparative study of bubble components 
    Akyüz, Alp Güven Buğra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    The co-movement of prices across the world was highlighted during the Credit Crunch of 2008 and the following periods. Since the price drop is attributed to bursting bubbles, it is of interest whether bubbles also follow ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • Statistical arbitrage in crude oil futures market 
    Tamkoç, Mehmet Nazım. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In this study, we use crude oil futures contracts that differ in maturity to come up with a trading algorithm that takes forecasted convenience yields as a base. Because there is a liquidity constraint, we take 5 different ...
  • Systemic risk and heterogeneous leverage in banking networks: implications for banking regulation 
    Sever, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    In this paper, I study systemic risk implications of balance sheet heterogeneity in a banking network. More speci cally, I analyse systemic impacts of nancial leverage heterogeneity in a banking system under the existence ...
  • Political instability and long run economic growth across the old world 
    Kurt, Ezgi. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This study investigates determinants of differences in the long run economic development across the Old World. It provides support for the primary role politics played in driving these differences. In particular, the ...
  • An evaluation of the post-1980 export performance of the Turkish manufacturing industry 
    Övet, Yonca. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1985., 1985.)