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  • Labor force participation of women in Turkey: a microeconometric analysis 
    Aktakke, Nazlı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis tries to shed light on the determinants of labor force participation of married women in urban Turkey. Thesis has two main focus points; first is to find out the possible determinants of participation of women ...
  • Leasing state economic enterprises against foreign dept payments 
    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 ...
  • Loss aversion and refund policies 
    Güçlü, Mehmet Akif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis examines the relationship between loss aversion and refund policy decisions of firms. We consider a two-stage duopoly model with horizontal product differentiation, with and without loss aversion. Firms decide ...
  • Macro stress testing on the credit risk of the banking sector in Turkey 
    Toktabekov, Baurzhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In our thesis research we conduct a stress test of banking sector in Turkey. Firstly, we develop a model where we regress total and sectoral NPL rates on their lags and macroeconomic indicators. By using the results of the ...
  • Macro stress-testing approach of credit risk: evidence from Turkey 
    Polat, Ali Yavuz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    There is a vast literature on financial stability issue after the onset of the recent global financial crises. Stress-testing, which can be defined as the techniques used by policy makers to assess the vulnerability 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Measures of individual risk attitudes and portfolio choice: Evidence from an investment competition 
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Modelling farmers’ marketing processes :|the case of the potato sector in Turkey’s Çorum province 
    Yıldıran, Safa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Many reports and calculations regarding the share of each actor in the final price of agricultural products show that there exists a downward pressure on producer prices. Even if a substantial body of the studies on the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Non-performing loans and asset management companies in Turkey 
    Pehlivan, Ömer Bedri. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    The objective of this thesis is to describe historical evolution of Turkey’s NPL levels and NPL disposal management in detail and show bank-specific factors affect banks’ NPL sale decisions. Despite the wide literature on ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • On the number of brackets in piecewise linear income tax systems: An application 
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Optimum currency areas: |political and economic optimums of the European monetary system 
    Günan, R. Engin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
  • 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 ...

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