İktisat: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Günan, R. Engin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Aktuğ, Emrehan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In this paper, I empirically investigate the labor income profiles in Turkey over age, gender, educational attainment and public-private sector employment. I first document that the average labor income profile over age is ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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