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  • 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 ...
  • Preserving priorities in the case of the Re-placement of medical residents in Turkey 
    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 ...
  • Price discrimination in a network: a model of telecommunications networks 
    Günay, Selçuk Eren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis considers access pricing and consumer pricing problems of telecommunications firms as a context to analyze the effects of a network structure on firms' equilibrium strategies in Bertrand competition. The ability ...
  • Price impact estimation of bond market :|a machine learning approach 
    Sert, Saim Ayberk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    We conduct an empirical study to analyze the aggregate price impact behavior of Turkish government bonds over 17 years. Moreover, we want to find out the determinants of price impact for each trade. The primary motivation ...
  • Public safety, poverty, and inequality 
    Can, Mete. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis investigates how the optimal government response to criminal activity is shaped by national income and inequality in the manner of public safety expenditures. The literature on this issue is already well ...
  • Real exchange rate and export behavior: Firm level evidence 
    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 ...
  • Real interest rates and fractional integration : the case of emerging markets 
    Koç, Hale. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis is composed of two essays applying fractional integration analysis to (i) real interest rate series of Turkey using various de nitions (ii) real interest rate series of 19 emerging economies. Despite the existence ...
  • Redesigning the high school placement mechanism in Turkey 
    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, ...
  • Regional differences in the effects of Turkey’s 1997 compulsory schooling policy 
    Ocal, Alp. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    In this thesis, we examined how the increased compulsory education from five to eight years, as a result of the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform, affected educational outcomes of women and men and rural and urban residents ...
  • Revenue neutral tax reforms in a DSGE model with home production and infinitely lived agents 
    Demir, İbrahim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The subject of this thesis is to explore the effects of two revenue neutral tax reforms on equity, efficieny and welfare of the society. In order to do this a DSGE model with infinitely lived agents and uninsurable ...
  • 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 ...
  • Secondary school placement problem in Turkey 
    Aygün, Orhan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this paper, I study the placement mechanism, a centralized student placement via standardized test, which is used for matching eight grade students and high schools, in Turkey within a many-to-one matching framework. ...
  • Sequential tasks and moral hazard 
    Bakum, Ayşe Beyza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    A principal owns a two-stage project consisting of two tasks with a finish-to-start dependency where there exists an outcome externality between these tasks. A success in the first task may affect the probability of success ...
  • Shadow economy and environmental pollution 
    Öztunalı, Oğuz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This thesis investigates the relationship between the size of the shadow economy and environmental pollution. To this end, an empirical analysis for various measures of environmental pollution is conducted first in a panel ...
  • Shadow economy over the business cycle: how do formal and informal cycles interact? 
    Birinci, Serdar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    In this thesis, first, relying on a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model, I construct quarterly estimates of shadow economy size for 15 advanced economies for a time period from 1960 to 2010. This gives me the ...
  • Simultaneous auctions with private and common values 
    Nemli, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    We analyze two simultaneous sealed-bid auctions in which n bidders have private values for the good in one auction but a common value for the other, and must choose to participate in at most one auction. The seller in each ...
  • Sources of inflation in Turkey an eclectic analysis 
    Akışık, Orhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1984., 1984.)
  • 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 ...
  • Statistical measures of systemic risk :|an application for the Turkish banking system 
    Barlas, Ali Batuhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this paper, we basically apply market data based statistical methods to measure systemic risk for the Turkish banking sector. In order to have a broad perspective on systemic risk with different dimensions, we employ ...
  • Stay or go: the effects of migration and return decisions on human capital formation 
    Sadıkoğlu, Serhan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this thesis, I study the migration and return migration decisions of skilled workers, along with the the impact of migration prospects on human capital formation under asymmetric information. Moreover, I analyze the ...

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