Browsing by Subject "Openness"
Now showing 1 - 8 of 8
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item Open Access Factors affecting evaluations of storefront designs and inferences on store characteristics(Bilkent University, 2010) Çakırlar, Yasemin BurcuThe aim of this study was to examine the factors affecting the evaluations of storefront designs and to understand how they relate to inferences on store characteristics. The study consists of two parts. In both parts of the study, 12 color photographs of storefronts manipulated to represent two different levels of crowdedness and openness levels were used. The first part was conducted with 70 students from Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department, Bilkent University. They were asked to rate the storefronts on a semantic differential scale which consisted of adjective pairs involving evaluations of storefront designs and those related to their inferences on the items which may be sold in the stores. In the second part, interviews with 32 shoppers were conducted in a shopping mall, regarding their preferences on the same storefronts displayed together on a board, and reasons affecting their appraisals. The results show that the evaluations of storefront designs have a strong relationship with the inferences on store characteristics. Crowdedness, openness, complexity and familiarity of the storefronts were also found to affect the appraisals of storefronts.Item Open Access The impact of the liberalization program on the price-cost margin and investment of Turkey's manufacturing sector after 1980(Routledge, 2002) Özcan, K. M.; Voyvoda, E.; Yeldan, E.In this paper, we investigate the structural consequences of the post-1980 outward-orientation on the market concentration and accumulation patterns in the Turkish manufacturing industries. Using various panel data procedures over twenty-nine subsectors of Turkish manufacturing for the 1980-1996 period, we focus on three sets of issues: (1) the effect of openness on the extent of market concentration as measured in CR4 ratios; (2) the behavior of gross profit margins (markups) in relation to openness, concentration ratios, and real wage costs; and (3) the behavior of sectoral real investments (by destination) in relation to the profit margins, real wage costs, and the openness indicator. Our results suggest very little structural change in the sectoral composition and nature of market concentration and behavior of profit margins under the post-1980 structural adjustment reforms and outward-orientation. We find that, contrary to expectations, "openness" had very little impact, if any, on profit margins (markups), and, within manufacturing, the trade-adjusting sectors reveal a positive relationship between the profit margins and openness. Profit margins are found to be positively and significantly related to concen- © 2002 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved.Item Open Access The life of the night: Bolaño, Blanchot, and the impoverishment of openness(Routledge, 2019) Stockwell, CoryThis article deals with the theme of openness in Roberto Bolaño’s novel Monsieur Pain. Drawing on Blanchot’s formulation of “the other night,” I locate in the hiccups present throughout Bolaño’s novel an openness that suspends and undoes itself, thus critiquing conceptions of openness as pure emptiness such as those at work in Agamben’s philosophy, and in the contemporary discourses around convenience and infinite possibility.Item Open Access Openness and the effectiveness of monetary policy: a cross-country analysis(Routledge, 2007) Berument, Hakan; Konac, N.; Senay, O.This paper evaluates the relationship between a country's openness to trade and the effectiveness of monetary policy in changing output growth and inflation in 29 different countries. Using quarterly data from the 1957–2003 period, empirical estimates based on individual country specifications show that the direction, significance and nature of the relationship between openness and the effectiveness of monetary policy on output growth as well as inflation vary considerably across countries.Item Open Access Perception and evaluation of spaciousness in interior spaces(Bilkent University, 1994) Demirörs, ÇiğdemMan and Built-Environment studies have incre^ased rapidly in recent years, leading to a better understanding and eKamini^tion of the effects of different architectural variables on the assessment of interior spaces. The aim of this thesis is to cxnalyse the effects of some of these factors, namely, room geometry, color, lighting, window, and furniture on the perception and evaluation of spacioussness. These have been studied in the con text of man-environment interactions, based on the studies of well-known researchers of the field. In addition, two case-studies have been conducted to study the effects of furniture organization and lighting arrangements on the assessment of interior spaces in terms of spaciousness.Item Open Access Productivity and openness in Turkish economy(Bilkent University, 2000) Pasin, UmutA growth accounting and an econometric exercise are used to provide insights into the evolution o f the Turkish economy over the period 1968-1997. The growth accounting results show that the contribution o f total factor productivity to GDP growth averaged about 20 percent over the period, and this contribution reached its maximum level in the trade liberalization period. My results suggest that trade liberalization has better effects on total factor productivity growth. As a result o f nonparametric analysis I found a positive relation between openness and productivity growth.Item Open Access The effect of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme on the International Baccalaureate learner profile attributes of Turkish high school students(Bilkent University, 2023-12) Cinli, Ülfet BurcuThe International Baccalaureate (IB) programme follows a model that connects child development to cognition and metacognition (Bullock, 2011). The IB Learner Profile (IBLP) attributes are the way IB ensures that both aspects of education are a part of IB education. This study investigates to what extent the IB Diploma Programme (IB DP) impacts student acquisition of IBLP attributes and its interaction with the personality traits of conscientiousness and openness. Participants (N = 180) were chosen from the same school and were grouped as either IB DP or non-IB students. Inherent personality traits conscientiousness and openness to experience from the Big Five Inventory (BFI) were used as covariates. Furthermore, the IB DP is analysed to investigate if IB DP can substitute low personality traits. Findings support the following: (1) the IB DP students score higher for knowledgeable, inquirer, and open-minded IBLP attributes, (2) When inherent personality traits are controlled, the IB DP students score higher for the inquirer and open-minded IBLP attributes.Item Open Access Two essays on macroeconomics(Bilkent University, 2003) Doğan, BurakThe empirical evidence suggests that openness decreases the effect of monetary policy on output; however the effect on prices is not statistically significant. In the first chapter of this research these predictions are tested over the open economy of Turkey for quarterly data from 1987:1 to 2001:1. This chapter assesses how the openness affects the effectiveness of monetary policy on output and prices. The purpose of the second chapter is to assess if expansionary and contractionary government spending shocks have an asymmetric effect for Turkish economy. There might be asymmetry for the effect of fiscal policy on economic outcome due to stickiness of prices, perception of changes (permanent versus transitory) and nearness to full employment. This chapter assesses this asymmetry for Turkey by using quarterly data from 1987:I to 2001:I. The empirical evidence reported here reveals that private consumption and investment decrease in the face of expansionary government spending shocks; however, they either do not change or decrease very little under contractionary government spending shocks.