• 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 ...
• 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.)
• Two essays on informality 

  Ertürk, Nebahat Ferda. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2014.)

  The first part of this study intends to give a detailed account on the recent literature of economics of informality. In particular, we focus on effects and determinants of informality as well as measurement of informal ...
• Informality in Turkey: evidence from a firm-level survey 

  Sezgin, Muhammed Burak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)

  In this thesis, we use the results of a novel survey of 500 firms from 13 different sectors in Turkish economy and a two-sector general equilibrium model to measure the extent of informality in these sectors through a ...
• A comparison of stochastic models of natural gas consumption: an application for Turkey 

  Kiremitçiyan, Serli. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)

  In this thesis, we model the dynamic behaviour of natural gas consumption using continuous-time stochastic models to incorporate their significant advantages over the discrete-time models into the modeling process. In ...
• Information content of risk reversal in estimating the value at risk of crude oil futures 

  Erkekoğlu, Fatih. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)

  This paper attempts to investigate the information content of risk reversal in estimating VaR of oil futures. Using CAViaR PlugIn models, we incorporated risk reversal into CAViaR models. We tested the performance of our ...
• Modeling new monetary policy of the Central Bank of Republic of Turkey 

  Özvarol, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)

  Central Bank of Republic of Turkey has started implementing a new monetary policy structure since May 2010. An interest rate corridor has been introduced as the bank's policy instrument. In this study, we evaluate the new ...
• Optimal monetary policy under the presence of informality 

  Ergene, Salim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)

  This thesis studies the optimal monetary policy in an informal sector framework in the presence of nominal price stickiness. We study the optimal policy as a Ramsey plan in which the policy makers maximizes the agent’s ...
• An assessment of new regionalism: the case of Turkey 

  Türker, Kaner Atakan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)

  This study analyzes the New Regionalism literature, and evaluates the renewed planning agenda which is assigned for sub-national regions in Turkey by making use of the New Regionalism. For that purpose, initially, the ...
• Analyzing systemic risk in financial networks using network tools: for the case of financial break down of Turkish money market in 2000 

  Ömercikoğlu, İnci. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)

  This thesis analyzes performance of several network centrality measures in assesing systemic risk relying on data from the Turkish money market during financial crisis 2000. In order to gain clearer picture of network ...

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