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  • Economic development and convergence in Turkey : a province-based assessment with a special emphasis on the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) 
    Onmuş, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The first aim of this study is to investigate whether there are improvements in the development levels of the most developed, developed, and GAP provinces in Turkey, and also whether there exists convergence in labor ...
  • An OLG model of production with cash-in-advance constraints 
    Sürel, Ayşe Müjde. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis shows the existence of the unique competitive equilibrium in a cash-in-advance economy involving overlapping generations of producers and workers. Producers have decreasing returns to scale technologies, and ...
  • Actual and revealed comparative advantage in OECD agriculture : (1986-2002) 
    Uz, Can. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis explains the variation in the revealed comparative advantage of OECD agriculture between 1986 and 2002, using panel data techniques. Specifically, it empirically assesses, on the one hand, the degree of consistence ...
  • On properties of return distributions in İstanbul Stock Exchange 
    Karahan, Mehmet Oğuz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    In this thesis study, the distributional behavior of return series of Istanbul StockExchange (ISE) stocks and some ISE indices are analyzed. Normality tests are conducted by employing Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Jarque-Bera ...
  • 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 ...
  • Money demand estimation and currency substitution: evidence from Turkey 
    Zer, İlknur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    In this thesis, I try to represent both the long-run and short-run empirical relationships between the main Turkish macroeconomic series; the M1 money balances, real output and the opportunity costs variables for the period ...
  • Classification of welfare regimes using cluster analysis: where does Turkey stand? 
    Şenet, Gözde. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Science, 2006., 2006.)
    In his seminal book on welfare regimes in 18 industrial democracies, Esping-Andersen (1990) constructed today's best known typology of welfare states. Hedeveloped a threefold classification of welfare regimes, namely, the ...
  • On the existence of equilibrium in a two-class economy with production 
    Ünveren, Burak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis considers a production economy which consists of distinct sets of workers and capitalists as agents. Both workers and capitalists provide labor for production of two distinct types of consumer goods, one of ...
  • Fundamentals, credit ratings and global indicators: what determines Turkish sovereign spreads? 
    Ciğerli, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis analyzes empirically the determinants of Turkish sovereign risk asproxied by J.P. Morgan̕s Turkish Composite Emerging Market Bond Index spread forperiod 1997-2005. Specifically, the thesis explores the relative ...
  • The effect of the private sector on geographic distribution of public sector physicians in Turkey, 1990-2000 
    Bilir, Ayça. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The availability and distribution of physicians is an important indicator of the strength of a health system and is highly associated with mortality rates and life expectancy. The purpose of this study is to determine the ...
  • Network effects in risk sharing and credit market access: evidence from Istanbul 
    Tüzemen, Didem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Low levels of per capita income, variable incomes, and high unemploymentrates are some of the main economic problems that households living in developing countries face. When health expenditures, debt repayments, and ...
  • Consumer reactions to H5N1 avian influenza: the Turkish case 
    Akben, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The purpose of this thesis is to analyze consumer reactions to the 2005-2006 H5N1 Avian Influenza (commonly known as “bird flu”) outbreak experienced in Turkey. Specifically, we aim at identifying the factors which have ...
  • Essays on the internationalization of the Turkish banking sector: the reasons and the effects on performance 
    Ceyhan, Şanlı Pınar. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Sound macroeconomic policies, increasing global liquidity and higher real returns in developing countries play an important role in canalizing capital towards developing markets. High growth potential backed by an increasing ...
  • Essays on determinants of export, competitiveness and unit labor cost 
    Hacıhasanoğlu, Yavuz Selim. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis consists of three papers. In the first paper, we investigate the causes of the Turkish export-boom after 2000 in the manufacturing sector. We mainly concentrate on the cost and productivity aspects of the ...
  • Managing irrigation-induced salinity: the case of Harran plan 
    Karaca, Hakan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    In this study, irrigation-induced salinity is analysed through a dynamic model. In the model, all the farmers in two neighboring Water User Associations (WUAs), which are managed independently, contribute to the accumulation ...
  • Political economy of the environment in Turkey: gold mining conflict in Ida Mountain 
    Avcı, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This study analyzes the recent environmental conflict over permission to gold mining in close vicinity of Ida Mountain in Biga Peninsula, Turkey. Based on a field study conducted in the region, the factors that affect the ...
  • A look at indirect tax system in Turkey based on demand system estimation 
    Soydan, Gürcan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Taxation systems are not established only to raise the necessary revenue for the government budget. A redistributive function is also generally attributed to those systems to alleviate income inequality problems. A properly ...
  • Optimal amount of resource extraction under duopoly 
    Dereli, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the optimal amount of depletable natural resource extraction under duopoly through a dynamic model. The starting point comes from the world boron market in which there are two big ...
  • Essays on the competition and regulations in the Turkish credit card market 
    Kara, Gazi İshak. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    The aim of this thesis is to analyze the price and non-price competition in the credit card market in Turkey. The level of credit card interest rates created an unabated debate in Turkey. While interest rates in consumer ...
  • The kindergarten rule of sustainable growth: a Schumpeterian Approach 
    Şenol, Gül Bahar. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this thesis, I construct a dynamic economic growth model that takes into account environmental concerns, and search for a difference in the pattern of environmental quality when technological progress is taken to be ...

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