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    Arçelik Ankara Bulaşık Makinesi Fabrikası
    (Bilkent University, 2020) Özaltan, Ömer; Sancak, Ahmet Batuhan; Kantik, Efser Efe; Çetin, Şule; Özçifçi, Emre
    Bu araştırmada, 1993'te kurulan Ankara Arçelik Bulaşık Makinesi Fabrikası'nın kuruluş aşamasından günümüze kadarki gelişimi araştırıldı. Araştırma kapsamında ilk olarak Türkiye'nin 90'lar öncesindeki beyaz eşya imalatı ve fabrikanın açılışına değin piyasadaki talep değişimleri hakkında bilgiler edinildi. Fabrikanın kuruluş aşaması incelendi. Fabrikanın açılışının ülke ve bölgeye etkileri ele alındı. İlerleyen yıllarda fabrikada yaşanan değişiklikler ve üretim hacmindeki büyümeyle iyileşmeler araştırıldı. Fabrikanın kuruluş döneminde ve ilk yıllarında görev alan çalışanlarla yapılan görüşmeler başta olmak üzere sözlü ve yazılı kaynaklardan faydalanılarak araştırma tamamlandı.
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    A bayesian network analysis of ethical behavior
    (SAGE Publications Inc., 2016) Ekici, A.; Ekici, S. O.
    Using one of the major domains of macromarketing – ethics – this paper aims to introduce the Bayesian network (BN) method and demonstrate its added value for macro-level decision makers. Bayesian networks are particularly important for macromarketers because they allow researchers to analyze a domain from a system perspective. The BN approach is considered one of the most powerful tools for observing system changes. The method can also deal with multiple variables at once, which can lead to efficient scenario analyses, critical for understanding how a system functions. As such, BNs offer a powerful tool for macromarketers who deal with systems, interactions, and higher levels of aggregation. We believe that the adoption of this methodology by macromarketing researchers is likely to contribute to the discipline by advancing the understanding of how certain systemic/network relationships and various domains of macromarketing work.
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    Bir kırsal kalkınma öyküsü: Taşkesti köy-kent projesi
    (Bilkent University, 2020) Karakuş, İlayda; Dumlu, Kemal Cihanşah; Önaçan, Doğa Sultan; Suna, Zeynep; Koçyiğit, Öykü
    Kırsal kalkınmayı hedefleyerek, 1978 yılında baĢlatılan köy-kent projelerinin ilk etabı, Bolu’nun Mudurnu ilçesinde bulunan TaĢkesti Köyünde gerçekleĢmiĢtir. Bu proje, kırsal bölgede yaĢayan halkın refahının arttırılması için, köy dahilinde ĢehirleĢme baĢlatılmasını hedefler. Bölgenin modernize edilmesi için, köyün sahip olduğu ham madde ve doğal güzelliklerin verimli kullanılması amaçlanmıĢtır. Köyün sahip olduğu potansiyel üretim alanları kurum, devlet, uluslararası örgüt ve bireyler derecesinde teĢvik edilmiĢtir. Bu teĢvikler neticesinde, köy halkının ekonomik ve sosyolojik olarak kalkınması sağlanmıĢtır.
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    The "Dominos" that need to fall into place for a reunification of Korea: making sense of a United Korea
    (Routledge, 2013) Harvey, M.; Kiessling, T.; Moeller, M.
    With the death of North Korea leader Kim Jong-il, the level of uncertainty will dramatically escalate in an already highly uncertain market. The question becomes, is there a market opportunity for Western organizations, and when should Western organizations attempt to enter North Korea? In addition, there is a large question looming over the potential changes in the country, that being, if and when reunification with South Korea will occur. This article examines the potential of a unified market on the Korean peninsula.
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    Educate or adjudicate? Socioeconomic heterogeneity and welfare
    (Routledge, 2017) Neyapti, B.
    I present a formal framework to explore the welfare and distributional effects of a government’s optimal choice over two types of public spending in a closed economy: domestic security (DS) and investment in social capital (SC). Production is characterized as a function of social and physical capital stocks that both vary across the regions. DS stands for total factor productivity, while SC stands for human capital and civic cooperativeness combined. SC accumulates via public spending on universal primary education, cultural, and civic events and such, and is exposed to regional spillover effects. Numerical simulations of the static solution of the government’s welfare maximization problem reveal that the optimal rate of spending on SC (m*) is negatively related with the income share of physical capital, SC spillovers and fiscal decentralization. Simulations also show that SC homogeneity is positively associated with both the level and equitability of aggregate income. The maximum attainable levels of income, welfare and social cohesion and the most equitable incomes are all observed to realize at some intermediate range of m* values. In case DS augments SC, however, social cohesion improves and welfare declines monotonously in m*. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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    Electricity consumption and economic growth in Turkey: an MF-var approach
    (2019-09) Berksun, Dilara
    This thesis investigates the relationship between monthly electricity consumption, quarterly GDP and quarterly components of GDP using a Mixed Frequency VAR model for Turkey. The empirical evidence reveals that an increase in electricity consumption increases GDP. However, an increase in electricity consumption increases Private Consumption, Investment, Imports expenditures, Construction, Industrial, Manufacturing and Service Sector outputs more than it increases GDP. In addition to this, the empirical evidence reveals that an increase in electricity consumption increases Agricultural sector output less than it increases GDP.
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    "Gelişirken": Türkiye örneğinden hareketle iktisadi kalkınma söylemleri ve demokrasi ilişkisini yeniden düşünmek
    (ODTÜ, 2017) Uğur Çınar, Meral
    Bu makalede ekonomik gelişme söyleminin yaygın kullanımı ile demokrasinin temel unsurlarının zayıflatılması arasındaki ilişki irdelenmektedir. Bunun için öncelikle ekonomik gelişme argümanlarının siyasette neden bu kadar merkezi bir konuma geldiği açıklanmakta, sonrasında da ekonomik gelişme söylemlerinin demokrasi üzerindeki etkisini ne şekilde gösterdiği ortaya konulmaktadır. Bunun için, ekonomik gelişme argümanları kullanılarak çoğulculuk, denge-denetleme gibi demokrasinin belkemiği olan unsurların zayıflatılmasının nasıl meşrulaştırıldığı ayrıntılı olarak açıklanmaktadır. Bu argümanların bilimsel açıdan temelsizliği de ortaya konularak aslında demokrasi ve ekonomik gelişmenin birbirine zıt kavramlar olmayıp gerçekte birbirlerini destekledikleri verilerle ortaya konulmaktadır. Buradaki bulguların çıkarımları Türkiye'nin ötesine gitmekte ve gelişmekte olan ülkelerde demokrasinin karşı karşıya kaldığı tehdit ortaya konulmaktadır.
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    Illich'in ütopyası
    (2001) Bayraktar, Ulaş
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    Inflation targeting, employment creation and economic development: assessing the impacts and policy alternatives
    (Routledge, 2008) Epstein, G.; Yeldan, E.
    Inflation targeting (IT) has recently become the dominant monetary policy prescription for both developing and industrialized countries alike. Emerging market governments, in particular, are increasingly pressured to follow IT as part of their International Monetary Fund (IMF)-led stabilization packages and the routine rating procedures of the international finance institutions. However, the common expectation of IT promoters that price stability would ultimately lead to higher employment and sustained growth has failed to materialize. Generally, the current growth patterns of the world economy are too concentrated and uneven to generate sufficient capital investment and reduce unemployment. To contribute to the task of designing a more socially desirable macroeconomic policy environment, we offer concrete country case studies that devise viable alternatives to inflation targeting central bank policies in order to promote employment, sustained growth and improved income distribution.
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    İnsan gücü ve eğitim verimliliği
    (1977) Adem, Mahmut
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    Is this the end of economic development?
    (Elsevier BV, 2000) Adelman, I.; Yeldan, E.
    The paper reviews the policies and institutions used by governments that have successfully promoted economic development. It examines which policy instruments countries can still wield in the current global trading and financial regimes. It concludes that the openness and nature of short-term financial markets eliminate state use of interest and exchange rate policies while GATT/WHO eliminate trade and commercial policy. As a result, developing countries are severely limited in the means they can employ to promote development. We conclude by suggesting four reforms to increase state autonomy and lessen the frequency and severity of financial crises. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Letter from Ankara
    (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2015-09) Cinar, M. U.
    This article focuses on the relationship between discourses of economic development and prospects for democracy in Turkey. It does so by tracing the political discourse of highranking government officials and journalists close to them to show how they use arguments for economic development as a tool to politically legitimise interventions into liberal democracy. I first illustrate the dangers caused by the discourse surrounding economic development to democracy by looking at the Gezi protests. I show how demands for pluralism and respect for different lifestyles—which are crucial aspects of liberal democracy—were instead framed by the government as chaos created by agents of the so-called ‘interest rate lobby’ and provocations caused by those who want to stop Turkey’s economic development. I analyse Gezi in comparative perspective with presidentialism debates and the corruption scandal of December 2013. In these cases too, demands for democracy, transparency, checks and balances are pitted against economic development. Citizens are made to choose between a vaguely defined notion of economic development and democratisation
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    Marketing and public policy: Transformative research in developing markets
    (2012) Shultz, C.J.; Deshpandé, R.; Cornwell, T.B.; Ekici, A.; Kothandaraman P.; Peterson, M.; Shapiro, S.; Talukdar, D.; Ann V.
    Developing markets are a challenge for researchers who study them and for governments, business leaders, and citizens who strive to improve the quality of life in them. The limitations of the dominant development paradigm coupled with the need to focus on consumers provide tremendous opportunities to engage in truly transformative research. Toward this outcome, several interactive forces must be understood and addressed during research design, management, and implementation. The purpose of this essay is to provide a synthesis-that is, a framework in the form of a conceptual model-with practical applications to transformative research in developing markets and, ultimately, with the broader objective to stimulate new conceptualizations, research, and best practices to transform consumer well-being. © 2012, American Marketing Association.
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    Maximization or satisficing?
    (1979) Kapteyn, Arie
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