M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Asymmetric price transmission in the Turkish dried nuts market: Does it verify market power? 
    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 ...
  • Horizontal coordination and transparency of information 
    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 ...
  • Two essays on applied economics 
    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 ...
  • The timing of uncertainty resolution in gift-exchange experiments 
    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 ...
  • The influence of group decision making on search behavior 
    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 ...
  • The cost of switching: Evidence from the Turkish pension fund system 
    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 ...
  • Distributional dynamics of sectoral change in the long run 
    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 ...
  • An investigation of the change in the severe material deprivation rate of Turkey 
    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 ...
  • The impact of Syrian refugees on the Turkish labor market 
    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 ...
  • An investigation of income profiles in Turkey 
    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 ...
  • The relationship between state and capital: the reconstruction of soccer stadiums as an urban transformation project 
    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 ...
  • Electoral rules and strategic voting in Turkey 
    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 ...
  • Financing public expenditures through progressive taxation: effects on growth, welfare and inequality 
    Ünsal, Alper. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    Theoretical and empirical studies have revealed that there is a positive impact of public investments, i.e. infrastructure investments, on economic growth. Noting that the growth literature containing productive public ...
  • Informality and inequality dynamics in a two-sector Ramsey-type growth model 
    Kaba, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis develops a two-sector Ramsey type growth model with heterogeneous agents differing in terms of their initial endowment of capital. The informality level and income/wealth distributions are generated endogenously ...
  • The effects of compulsory schooling laws on women’s status in the family 
    Usta, Emine Kübra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this study we investigate the impacts of 1997 Compulsory Education Reform in Turkey on women’s status in the family. With the reform, the duration of compulsory schooling was extended to 8 years from 5 years. Individuals ...
  • Two essays on macroeconomics 
    Tosun, Hasan Kadir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis is composed of two essays on macroeconomics. In the first essay, motivated by the empirical evidence that implies a negative correlation between government trust and the size of informal sector, we develop a ...
  • Application of Khan and Knight's model to Turkish economy for the periods 1964-1980 and 1980-1985 
    Baç, Mehmet. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Scieences, 1986., 1986.)
    The present study is an application to the Turkish economy of a model formulated by Khan M.S. and Knight M.D. where output, prices, international reserves, government spending and expenditures, money, and domestic credits ...
  • A study on the economic crisis of 1970's and proposals: |an eclectic analysis 
    Koçak, Cüneyd. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1985., 1985.)
  • A dynamic model of mixed duopolistic competition: open source vs. proprietary innovation 
    Akbulut, Suat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Open source software development has been an interesting investment model of production and innovation in recent years, especially in the last few decades. Unlike the private investment model, open source innovators freely ...
  • International trade and informality 
    Demirci, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    In this thesis, we empirically and theoretically investigate whether the presence of an informal sector contributes positively to exports of an economy. Using annual bilateral trade data of 161 economies over the period ...

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