Browsing Dept. of Economics - Master's degree by Title
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Access to credit and self-employment
(Bilkent University, 2006)This thesis analyzes the impact of access to credit on self-employment. It examines the influence of knowing a place to borrow on the likelihood of owning a business. The analyses are made on farm and non-farm businesses ... -
Agency costs, fiscal policy, and business cycle fluctuations
(Bilkent University, 2009)This paper studies the relationship between scal policy, nancial market frictions and business cycle uctuations. It is shown that in an economy where balance sheets play a role in the propagation of shocks, using ... -
An alternative look at balance-of-payments puzzle : structural decomposition of accounts of 16 emerging markets
(Bilkent University, 2006)The empricial evidence on pro-growth effect of capital account liberalization is inconclusive. I argue that, after liberalization, the link between structural finance needs of developing countries and debt flows lost its ... -
An analysis of foreign investment in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 1993)This study attempts to clarify two important subjects on foreign capital in Turkey. First one is a comparison of the performance of firms with foreign capital and firms with domestic capital. And second one is trend and ... -
Analysis of real business cycle models with capital-skill complementarity
(Bilkent University, 2009)The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of a production function with capital-skill complementarity, as opposed to the standard Cobb-Douglas production function, on Real Business Cycle [RBC] models. Capital-skill ... -
An analysis of technical barriers to trade within the European Union perspective
(Bilkent University, 2011)After setting up the necessary framework for the subject on technical barriers to trade (TBT), this study tries to enlighten the removal efforts of the TBT within the European Union (EU) and Turkey. In this respect, this ... -
The analysis of the behaviour of governments and producers in the presence of environmental regulations and international trade
(Bilkent University, 2000)In my thesis I analyse the interactions between environmental regulations and international trade. I use a two-country, one-good, two-producer model. The governments may behave strategically in choosing their environmental ... -
An analysis of the sources of import growth in Turkey: 1985-90
(Bilkent University, 1995)The sources of import growth in Turkey during the 1985-90 period are decomposed into four casual factors domestic demand expansion, export expansion, import substitution and technological change, using the inputoutput ... -
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 ... -
An analytical assessment about post-great moderation central banking policies
(Bilkent University, 2012)In this thesis, by focusing on the unconventional monetary policy measures, I have analytically assessed post-great moderation central banking policies and documented the heterogeneity in calibration and design of ... -
Analyzing inflation target misses
(Bilkent University, 2010)This thesis identifies the roles of both domestic and global factors in missing the inflation targets with the help of Arellano-Bond fixed effects estimation. Central bank credibility has the largest absolute effect on ... -
An application of an entropy approach to the Turkish manufacturing industry
(Bilkent University, 1993)This study concerns an application of concentration measurement for the Turkish Manufacturing Industry using information theory. Theil's (1971) disaggregation of entropy is converted to handle the whole manufacturing ... -
Application of cointegration analysis to the demand for labor by the Turkish private manufacturing sector
(Bilkent University, 1995)In this study, the demand for labor by the Turkish private manufacturing sector is analyzed for three time periods; 1988 quailer 1-1993 quarter 4, 1988 quarter 1 - 1994 quarter 1, 1988 quarter 1-1994 quarter 2 to be able ... -
Application of Markowitz Portfolio Selection Model to Istanbul Stock Exchange, 1990-1992
(Bilkent University, 1995)In this study, Markowitz Efficient Frontier is constructed by using stock prices in Istanbul stock exchange for the period of 1990-92. This set of efficient portfolios is compared with mutual funds which are randomly chosen ... -
An application of seasonal cointegration and error correction models on monthly data
(Bilkent University, 1995)In this study, I try to analyze and show the monthly changes and their effects on each other of Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE), TL / $ Exchange Rate (E), M l, M2, price level (P), Interest rate on securities (R) and ... -
Application of spectral and cross-spectral analysis to İstanbul Stock Exchange Market
(Bilkent University, 1995)In this study, stock exchange index and selected four securities Ege Gübre, Bağfaş, Adana Gübre and Tüpraş from Istanbul Stock Exchange Market were analyzed with spectral and cross-spectral methods. Consumer price index ... -
Application of the twin-deficits hypothesis to the Turkish case
(Bilkent University, 1993)This study detects the twin-deficits hypothesis, the mutual effects of government budget deficits and merchandise trade deficits on each other through real interest rates and real effective exchange rates, in the Turkish ... -
Approximating small open economy models with neural network trained by genetic algorithm
(Bilkent University, 2008)This thesis work presents a direct numerical solution methodology to approximate the small open economy models with debt elastic interest rate premium and with convex portfolio adjustment cost, both studied by Stephanie ... -
Approximating the stochastic growth model with neural networks trained by genetic algorithms
(Bilkent University, 2006)In this thesis study, we present a direct numerical solution methodology for the onesector nonlinear stochastic growth model. Rather than parameterizing or dealing with the Euler equation, like other methods do, our ... -
Asymmetric behavior of exchange rate pass through in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2009)This thesis investigates the presence of asymmetry in pass through from exchange rates to manufacturing industry prices in Turkey. In the analysis, to detect a possible nonlinear response of prices, threshold regression ...
