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  • Nowcasting Turkish GDP by dynamic factor model 
    Alkış, İdris. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This study aims to nowcast, backcast, and forecast the quarter of Turkish Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth by the dynamic factor model. Although GDP provides detailed information on economic activities, GDP data is ...
  • On the Axelrod’s social influence model with obstruction 
    Eden, Neval Polat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    People associate and bond with similar others (the principle of homophily). The interactions resulting from these bonds even make them more similar (the principle of social influence). Despite this tendency towards local ...
  • Online consumer dissatisfaction, perceived solution effectiveness and the service recovery paradox 
    Bilici, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study investigates service failure situations and their effect on coping behavior and emotions, moreover, inquire into service recovery paradox. This study has three main purposes: (i) to place relationship of service ...
  • Online price-related behavior and attitude toward various pricing models 
    Özdemir, Gözde. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The importance of consumer attitudes and behavior toward price on purchase processes has long been known. Retailers have employed different marketing applications periodically in order to shape and direct these attitudes ...
  • Organizational adoption of enterprise resource planning systems 
    Kerimoğlu, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Although Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are being used widelyall around the world, they bring along many problems as well as benefits. Most ofthese implementations are failures and inadequate adoption is just ...
  • Perceived value in the online shopping environment:|The case of supermarket shopping 
    Karabağ, Seçkin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Online retail sales grow faster than total retail sales every year. It is not only because of increasing internet penetration but also due to product diversification. Supermarket shopping has also been transformed to an ...
  • Playing the Turkish game Okey with deep reinforcement learning 
    Uygun, İlke. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Games are important test beds for machine learning studies for over the last decades. Significant progress has been made in games such as Checkers, Chess, Go and Poker with the help of deep neural networks used for ...
  • Predicting stock movements with machine learning using textual data 
    Özdemir, Meryem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Economic events perceive great attention from information retrieval community. As one of the popular practices, language models on economy related textual data are proven to be advantageous for anticipating economic events. ...
  • Predicting the Bitcoin trend using technical indicators for deep learning algorithmic features 
    İnce, Nuri Tuğkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This research focused on utilization of technical indicators for predicting the trend of Bitcoin/USD price with different deep learning algorithms. The goal was to achieve better trend prediction accuracy results using ...
  • Prediction of IMKB sector indices by using artificial neural networks 
    Çevik, Ömer Faruk. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Stock market predictions play an important role for making right investment decisions. Investors can gain very high returns in short time in stock exchanges if correct stocks are chosen or they can lose their earning. ...
  • Prediction of stock price direction by artificial neural network approach 
    Şenol, Doğaç. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    The stock market has always been an attractive area for researchers since no method has been found yet to predict the stock price behavior precisely. It carries a higher risk than any other investment area, due to its high ...
  • Privacy concerns on mobile applications Vis-À-Vis the number of permissions requested by android apps 
    Rabea, Ala. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Since the introduction of smartphones and applications, privacy concerns have been rapidly rising. Today, over one billion people use smartphones with millions of apps. These apps may request different permissions from ...
  • Private pension decision support system 
    Dursunluer, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study provides current and prospective private pension system participants with a web-based interactive decision support system that evaluates private pension funds or pension portfolio performance by using risk ...
  • Readers' expectations, perceptions, preferences and loyalty towards online newspapers 
    Utku, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Online newspaper readership is the most popular activity among the fast growing Turkish Internet users population. Competition is high and every newspaper website has to deliver news every day, every second. On the other ...
  • Significant and relevant factors that can affect the sustainability of mobile learning 
    Coşkun Setirek, Abide. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Educational leaders are concerned about whether m-learning initiatives can address current educational needs and intent of m-learning, have potential to be adopted by users, maintain a certain condition indefinitely or ...
  • Strategic aims and effectiveness of Turkish traditional companies implementing e-commerce: a comparative study 
    Sipahi, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Increase of competition in the local markets urges the companies of various sizes to implement new technologies in order not to be left behind the competition. E-commerce is one of the major types of these technologies, ...
  • Strategic value analysis of information technology investments 
    Arslan, Birgül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis seeks to shed light upon the strategic value of information technology (IT) investments. Previous literature suggests that IT investments per se are not sufficient for improving firm performance. Drawing from ...
  • Structural analysis of software industry organizations in Turkey 
    Başol, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Information Technology is one of the fastest growing industries in recent years, creating significant opportunities to the economies of countries. The software industry, a sub-field of information technology, performs ...
  • Students’ acceptance of and intention to use learning management systems using extended TAM 
    Eraslan Yalçın, Müyesser. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The aim of this study is to examine students’ acceptance of and intention to use learning management systems for university education in Turkey using extended Technology Acceptance Model (e-TAM) that allows to find the ...
  • Test of Elliot Wave theory by time series segmentation algorithms 
    Çağatay, Tamer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Discovering the patterns of stock prices in a volatile and rapidly-changing market environment is a challenging problem. Elliot Wave theory, a form of technical analysis, attempts to investigate market price movements. The ...

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