İktisat: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...