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An Analysis on compositional effect during the great trade collapse
(Bilkent University, 2014)This thesis focuses on one of the famous hypotheses on The Great Trade Collapse which is compositional effect hypothesis. It includes three different parts. The first part examines the method of Levchenko, Lewis, Tesar ... -
Causes of banking crises: testing inequality and financial deregulation directly
(Bilkent University, 2020-09)I perform an empirical analysis to investigate the direct effect of income inequality and financial deregulation on the occurrence of systemic banking crises based on a panel of 133 countries over the period 1970–2018. ... -
The Challenge of predicting currency crises :how do definition and probability threshold choice make a difference?
(Bilkent University, 2015-09)The focus of this thesis is currency crisis, particularly the evaluation of the models that attempt to forecast currency crisis. Here, we aim to investigate the impacts of definition differences and probability threshold ... -
The CMEA trade agreements and their effect on Eastern European foreign trade, 1960-1990
(Bilkent University, 1992)The aim of this thesis is to examine the characteristics of foreign trade in Eastern European countries, before and after the political and economical changes in 1989. The export performance during 1970-1988 of four ... -
The distributional properties and weak efficiency in Istanbul Stock Exchange: a sectoral analysis
(Bilkent University, 2001)The purpose of this study is to present some empirics of the Turkish stock market which is a fast growing emerging market. Statistical properties of daily, weekly and monthly returns on sector price indexes on the Istanbul ... -
Econometric testing of purchasing power parity in less developed countries : fixed and flexible exchange rate regime experiences
(Bilkent University, 2001)he aim of this thesis is to investigate the purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis for sixteen developing countries during their fixed and flexible exchange rate experiences over the period 1957:01–1999:12. The main ... -
An empirical anaysis of efficiency and productivity change in the global automotive industry : a Malmquist productivity index approach
(Bilkent University, 2009)This thesis examines productivity changes in automotive sectors of 26 industrial and developing countries over the period 1973-2002. Using data envelopment analysis, Malmquist productivity change indices are computed ... -
Exporting and productivity: evidence from Turkish automotive sector
(Bilkent University, 2021-09)This thesis analyzes the determinants of export performance of the Turkish auto-motive manufacturers by focusing on firm-level productivity changes. We use the dataset obtained from Automotive Manufacturers Association ... -
Financial development and productivity a panel data approach
(Bilkent University, 2006)Much ink has been spilled over the relation of financial market development and economic growth. Productivity growth is one of the main sources of economic growth. In this study we empirically examine the role of financial ... -
Financial, economic, banking sector and institutional development and productivity
(Bilkent University, 2004)This thesis explores the links between Malmquist Productivity Index (and its two components, namely efficiency change and technological change) and the banking sector, economic, financial development and institutional ... -
Housing wealth, stock wealth and consumption
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)The growth of the stock market in 1990s and the enormous increase in house market during the last decades have reawakened the wealth impacts on the consumption. The main goal of this study is to determine the differential ... -
The impact of environmental efficiency on bilateral trade : a panel data estimation of gravity model
(Bilkent University, 2009)In this study the role of environmental efficiency in the determination of bilateral trade flows is empirically examined by using Gravity Model for a panel data for 1971 to 2003. Although there are a number of empirical ... -
The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on environmental efficiency : a sectoral analysis
(Bilkent University, 2017-08)This thesis studies sectoral level environmental efficiency changes in the Kyoto countries over the period 2000-2011. First, sectoral level environmental efficiency indexes for the Kyoto countries are computed by using ... -
The monetary approach to exchange rate determination: an empirical evidence from Turkey
(Bilkent University, 1993)In this study, the determination of exchange rates in Turkey is examined by using the monetary approach to exchange rate determination. To provide a theoretical basis, the basic assumptions and the variants of the monetary ... -
The nature of Hungary's comparative advantage: 1975-88
(Bilkent University, 1992)In this work the aim is to analyze the Hungarian Foreign Trade performance during the period 1975-88 by using the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) methodology. Hungary was the first centrally planned economy to ... -
Post-nafta U.S. imports and carbon content of trade : a sectoral analysis
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)This thesis examines the changes in the carbon dioxide content of international trade following a multilateral free trade agreement. In this study, the focus is centered on the e ects of the North American Free Trade ... -
Productive efficiency of Turkish wind farms: a two-stage data envelopment analysis
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)This thesis estimates the relative productive efficiency of Turkish wind farms to discover their inefficiency reasons using a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We choose three input variables and two output variables ... -
Regional transport infrastructure and trade flows in the EU
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)How does regional transport infrastructure affect bilateral trade flows? An extensive literature on infrastructure and trade flows has attempted to answer this question by using country level or regional data. This current ...
