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    Dividend announcement effect on the value of the firm
    (1997) Karaağaç, Bülent
    The dividend policy of the firms is very important for the investors. Because dividends contain management’s superior information of the firm’s recent performance and their assessment of future performance. Therefore, it’s expected to observe an increase in share prices associated with public announcement of a dividend increase. Throughout the thesis; I tried to find whether dividend announcements have an effect on stock prices in Istanbul Stock Exchange or not. The results I found are not consistent with the view that dividends have valuable information for the investors. Finally the reasons for these results are presented.
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    Financial statement as an indicator: sensitivity analysis of the balance sheet
    (1993) Göksu, Murat
    Different interest groups try to gather information about companies for various reasons. Several information types are evaluated and used for the purchasing decisions, for the lending decisions or simply for the efficient overall management of a firm. Among several evaluation tools, Financial Statement Analysis is one of the most widely used and reliable one. Financial Statement Analysis includes several methods. In this study, a new method, sensitivity analysis over the balance sheet is introduced. Within different interest groups, this study is mostly useful for a firm’s management for building a control on the firm's financial structure. In the thesis, first, a summary of descriptions of the existing methods of firm evaluation is given. Then sensitivity analysis with the balance sheet and income statement items over the selected ratios is introduced. A model for sensitivity analysis is developed, and a company application is performed. OZKOKLER A.Ş. and OZÇEGAŞ A.Ş., which are sister companies are selected for case study. The sensitivity analysis is applied to the consolidated financial statements of the above group of companies.OZKOKLER A.Ş. and OZÇEGAŞ A.Ş. are the customers of Impexbank Ankara Branch, and periodic and accurate data of these companies are available. During and as a result this study, * The performance of the firm is examined, * The sensitive items which affect the performance are investigated from the financial statements, * Recommendations for a following new period for better performance, using results of the sensitivity analysis, are given.
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    Firm entry, credit shocks and business cycles
    (2012) Karasoy, Hatice Gökçe
    In this thesis, we investigate whether, modelling firm dynamics together with credit markets in a two country frame, can provide additional information on international real business cycles in matching certain moments and explain other stylized statistics on business entry. Our motivation is the fact that, in the latest financial crisis, firm entry behavior is quite different between high income and low income countries. Solution of the model is provided with both productivity and credit shocks. Both kinds of shocks match a subset of stylized international business cycle facts. Plus in both kinds of shocks model exhibits the fact that volatility of new entrant firms are higher than incumbent ones. We show that credit shocks are better at explaining highly volatile business cycles in financially less developed countries. In the existence of country-specific credit shocks we observe contagion of crisis, comovements across countries do only exist with global credit shocks. We find out that the firm entry behaviour seen in latest financial crisis that financially developed countries has more volatile firm entry, is only possible with global shocks.