Kola, Halilcan2021-09-232021-09-232021-092021-092021-09-21http://hdl.handle.net/11693/76539Cataloged from PDF version of article.Thesis (Master's): Bilkent University, Department of Economics, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2021.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-81).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 (OSD) for the time period 2001-2019, and we have a panel data of 18 firms that produce motor vehi-cles. We calculate the productivity changes of the firms by applying Malmquist Productivity Change Index, which is commonly used in the literature. Analyz-ing two di˙erent dependent variables, export amounts and the share of exports in production, we find that increase in firm-level productivity leads to higher amounts of exports. Moreover, the impact of productivity on share of exports is relatively weaker for the Turkish automotive manufacturers.x, 82 leaves : grafics ; 30 cm.Englishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessExportingProductivityMalmquist productivity change indexTurkish automotive sectorThesisB133504