Ph.D. Theses

 

Recent Submissions

  • Essays on growth, structural change and taxation 
    Höke, Fatma Kübra. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis examines economies’ long-run dynamics with theoretical and empirical tools. It is composed of three chapters. In Chapter 1, we provide evidence for the labor share, structural change, fixed costs, and productivity ...
  • Essays on Turkish private hospital industry :|dynamics of market structure, health reforms and regulations 
    Boyacı, İsrafil. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis consists of three essays on empirical industrial organization. The first chapter focuses on the hospital industry environment in Turkey, provides a comprehensive picture of the industry, and also sets the ...
  • Current account adjustment in Turkey : 1923-2002 
    Yücel, Yelda. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    In this thesis the balance of payments of Turkey between 1923-2002 is examined with special emphasis on current account adjustment. One of the targets is to evaluate the balance of payments under different economic regimes ...
  • Cooperation and policy interventions: Field experiments with small-scale fishing communities in Turkey 
    Ertör Akyazı, Pınar. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the vast literature on environmental policy instruments and resource use dilemmas via an experimental approach. Based on framed field experiments conducted with members of ...
  • Three essays in industrial organization 
    Işık, Mehtap. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    In the first chapter of the thesis, we consider the formation of networks over which a public good is produced (as opposed to considering given and fixed network structures). We identify that the multiplicity of equilibria ...
  • Three essays in dynamic macroeconomics 
    Öztunalı, Oğuz. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis consists of three essays on dynamic macroeconomics. The first essay focuses on the relationship between government policy, education and wage inequality in a theoretical environment similar to the ones described ...
  • Turkey's transfer problem in the 1980s :|the external and the internal adjustment mechanisms 
    İzmen, Ümit 1961- (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    This thesis attempts an empirical interpretation of the Turkish transfer problem during the 1980's, the main cause of which is the debt selVice obligations. The thesis investigates how Turkey attempted to solve the twin ...
  • Short-run structural rigidities and supply performance in a financially repressed economy: |the case of Turkey 
    Doğruel, A. Suut. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
    In the beginning of the 1980, a stabilization prograrrce was introduced fulder the auspices of the IMF as a remedy to high rate of inflation and excessive balance of payment deficits experienced in Turkey. After five-year ...