Browsing by Author "Demir, N."
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Agro-climatic conditions and regional technical inefficiencies in agriculture
Demir, N.; Mahmud, S. F. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2002)A survey of applications of the Technical Inefficiency Effects (TIE) model suggests that agro-climatic and other environment variables are customarily omitted in the model specifications. The justification for such an ... -
Depository banks were trapped high inflation into cost inefficiency: The Turkish experience
Demir, N.; Mahmud, S. F.; Babuscu, S. (2010)Turkey embraced its worst banking crisis in the year 2001 after a long history of high inflation. Only one-third of the private domestic banks could survive immediately before and then after the crisis, mainly because of ... -
The effect of news on return volatility and volatility persistence: The Turkish economy during crisis
Solakoğlu, M. N.; Demir, N. (Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)In this study, we investigate the effect of public information arrival on return volatility for Borsa Istanbul. New information arrival is measured by the number of daily news headlines for Turkey, the United States, and ... -
Foreign banks: executive jobs for Turkish women?
Culpan, O.; Marzotto, T.; Demir, N. (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2007)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the employment policies and practices of Turkish banks and how these practices affect the hiring and promotion of women. Turkey's banking sector consists of state-owned, ... -
Measuring the degree of block interdependence between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors in Turkey
Sayan, S.; Demir, N. (Routledge, 1998)Based on the similarity of productive activities carried out by sectors, national input-output (IO) matrices may be divided into sub-matrices each representing a broader group of sectors called blocks. The strength of ... -
News releases and stock market volatility: intraday evidence from borsa Istanbul
Solakoglu, M. N.; Demir, N. (Elsevier Inc., 2015)In this study, we investigate the effect of public information arrival on return volatility for Borsa Istanbul (BIST) using intraday, 60-min returns between October 3, 2013 and March 31, 2014. Stock return and return ... -
Regional technical efficiency in the Turkish agriculture: a note
Demir, N.; Mahmud, S. (University of Delhi * Delhi School of Economics, 1998)A panel data, (67 provinces and the years 1993-1995) of the Turkish agriculture, was employed to estimate technical efficiencies for six agricultural regions and 67 provinces using maximum likelihood techniques (ML). ... -
The role of firm characteristics on the relationship between gender diversity and firm performance
Solakoglu, M. N.; Demir, N. (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the effect of gender diversity on firm performance and evaluate how that relationship is influenced by some firm-specific factors for firms in an emerging market. ... -
The role of progress factors explaining inefficiencies in Transition countries
Solakoglu, E. G.; Solakoglu, M. N.; Demir, N. (Springer-Verlag, 2013)This paper examines whether progress in transition has a significant effect on the economic efficiency for 24 transition countries from 1990 to 2006. It uses nine progress factors to analyze the role of the progress factors ... -
Sentimental herding in Borsa Istanbul: informed versus uninformed
Solakoglu, M. N.; Demir, N. (Routledge, 2014)This study searches for sentimental herding in Borsa Istanbul (BIST) using a state-space model for two distinct groups of investors/traders. We expect to find no sentimental herding in BIST30 as the investors are closely ... -
Structural change in agriculture and water requirements in Turkey
Sayan, S.; Demir, N. (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2003)This paper investigates the effects of the post-1980 structural reforms in Turkey on the strength of inter-industry linkages between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, and discusses the implications of the changing ... -
The technical inefficiency effects of Turkish banks after financial liberalization
Demir, N.; Mahmud, S. F.; Babuscu, S. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005)The banking sector in Turkey has grown significantly over the last two decades of financial liberalization. One of the aims of the financial liberalization was to improve efficiency through restructuring programs including ... -
A test for a functioning market economy: Seton'S eigenprices of Turkey
Demir, N.; Solakoglu, M. N.; Solakoglu, E. G. (Routledge, 2015)We use Seton's eigenprices to see if some evidence can be found in support of the European Commission's official statement that the Turkish economy can be considered as a functioning market economy. Given an input–output ... -
X-Efficiency, Returns to Scale and Profitability: Turkey's Banks Before and After the Financial Liberalization
Demir, N.; Ayture, S.; Mahmud, S. E. (2012)