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Budgetary efficiency in Turkey: local-central government relations from the perspective of fiscal federalism
(Bilkent University, 2001)The role and the functions of different levels of government are controversial issues. Together with increasing the importance of the local governments, decentralization has also gained importance. In this study, we ... -
Central bank independence, financial market development and inflation
(Bilkent University, 2008)Central bank independence (CBI) and inflation relation has long been a debate and is established in many studies, such as Bade and Parkin (1982), Alesina (1988, 1989), Grilli, Masciandaro, and Tabellini (1991), and ... -
Determinants of workers' remittances : evidence from Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2002)In this thesis, macroeconomic determinants of workers’ remittances are analyzed for the case of Turkey, using annual data over the period 1964-2001. Using two different models, in contrast to some previous analyses, we ... -
Effect of international credits on income distributions of developing countries : a panel data analysis
(Bilkent University, 2006)Today, international credits are among the key ingredients of the growth strategies pursued by the developing countries and the investigation of the relationship between international credits and income distribution is ... -
The effects of aid on foreign direct investment : the roles of governance and financial market development
(Bilkent University, 2005)This thesis investigates the effects of aid on foreign direct investment. The study takes into account the conditions such as sound governance within countries or well-developed financial markets, which are expected to ... -
The effects of social security systems on macroeconomic performance: a cross-sectional analysis
(Bilkent University, 1999)Developments in demographic factors affect the magnitude of several Social Security attributes, and have recently lead many countries to reform their systems. The most marked one of such reforms is the transition from ... -
Effects of the customs union on the patterns of Turkey's trade with the world : a panel analysis
(Bilkent University, 2003)In this thesis, the effects of the Customs Union with the EU are analyzed for the case of Turkey, using unbalanced panel data sets consisting of more than 150 countries between 1980-2001. Liberalization of Turkish foreign ... -
Endogenizing banking regulation and supervision : a dynamic equilibrium approach
(Bilkent University, 2017-08)This thesis presents a modi ed dynamic general equilibrium model by introducing a supervisory and regulatory agent (RS) that is responsible for setting the level of bank regulation and supervision quality ( ) in order ... -
Fiscal decentralization : a political economy approach
(Bilkent University, 2013)This study presents a theoretical approach to analyze income and welfare implications of fiscal decentralization in a static closed economy model where political factors are taken into account. We provide two alternative ... -
Fiscal decentralization and fiscal discipline
(Bilkent University, 2006)In this thesis, the effects of fiscal procedures, fiscal centralization and fiscal decentralization, on fiscal discipline are analyzed in a theoretical framework. A model of two optimization problems is established: ... -
Fiscal decentralization and its effects on macroeconomic performance
(Bilkent University, 2003)Decentralization has become an important policy issue in recent years. International organizations allocate more space for fiscal decentralization in their agenda. In the literature, there are vast amount of studies that ... -
Interest groups and institutional evolution
(Bilkent University, 2011)This study proposes an original formal political economy model of institutional evolution to analyze the effects of evolving interest groups on institutional change by extending the model of Neyaptı (2010). Institutions ... -
Measuring the quality of banking regulation and supervision and its relevance for inflation in transition countries
(Bilkent University, 1999)Bank regulation and supervision is essential to maintain confidence and stability in the financial system. The contribution of this study is twofold: primarily, we develop a technique to measure the quality of bank ... -
Modeling the economic effects of banking sector regulation and supervision
(Bilkent University, 2007)In this thesis, the effect of bank regulation and supervision on economic growth is analyzed theoretically. By means of OLG model framework, optimization problems of three types of agents have been constructed: consumer’s ... -
Welfare implications of inflation on Turkish economy
(Bilkent University, 2011)Inflation is an obstacle in the decision-making processes of agents in an economy. In order to make better decisions under periods of inflation, agents need to spend extra effort, and this creates a loss in welfare. This ...
