Browsing İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi / Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences by Submit Date
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Does Financial Liberalization Decrease Capital Flight? A Panel Causality Analysis
(Elsevier Inc., 2016-11-07)We employ a panel causality approach in order to examine whether financial liberalization affects the magnitude of capital flight, which measures unrecorded accumulation of foreign assets by the private sector. Our data ... -
Life expectancy and economic development: Evidence from microdata
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2020-08-01)This study examines the effect of life expectancy on fertility, education, and labor force participation. Using birth and sibling histories from the Demographic Health Surveys conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, I construct ... -
Plus Ça Change … Re-Articulating Authoritarianism in the New Turkey
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018-01-01)This study argues that the understanding of politics that prevails in contemporary Turkey resonates with Ernesto Laclau’s perspective on Turkish politics of the 1930s. Adapting Laclau’s antagonistic politics to the analysis ... -
Is terrorism becoming an effective strategy to achieve political aims?
(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ihsan Dogramaci Peace Foundation, 2018-01-01)Terrorism is the method of changing policies of decision-makers and behaviors of the wider society by instigating fear through violent acts. Terrorism can be categorized based on several criteria, such as political aim, ... -
Populism and foreign policy in Turkey under the AKP rule
(Routledge, 2018-03-15)A revisionist tone that has created several crisis has become more pronounced in Turkish foreign policy. This trend has been particularly evident after 2010 when the AKP consolidated its power base, the military's tutelage ... -
Paradigm Shift between Turkey and the Kurds: From ‘Clash of the Titans’ to ‘Game of Thrones’
(Routledge, 2018-01-02)Throughout the history of the Turkish Republic, its military and political elites in Ankara have regarded the Kurdish question as a security issue. Therefore, initiating the ‘peace process’ with the PKK and developing ... -
Opportunity and Willingness as a Pre-Theoretical Framework in Explaining Wars
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2018-01-01)Grand theories of international relations seek to produce general patterns, which are supposedly valid across time and space, yet fail to address particular actors and cases. According to Benjamin Most and Harvey ... -
Turkish Efforts in Peacekeeping and the Introduction of the TUBAKOV Dataset: An Exploratory Analysis
(Routledge, 2018-08-08)This study introduces the TUBAKOV dataset, which offers extensive data on 57 peacekeeping operations (PKOs) that Turkey has contributed to between the years 1988–2015. TUBAKOV improves existing data in several ways. First, ... -
Dark taints on the looking glass: Whither ‘New Turkey’?
(Routledge, 2018-03-15)The results of the 2002 general election in Turkey came as a powerful shock to multifarious circles both within and outside the country. There were deep concerns that the ‘moderate’ Islamic-oriented Justice and Development ... -
Politicization of recent Turkish history: (ab)use of history as a political discourse in Turkey
(Routledge, 2018-03-15)This article aims to analyze how history has been used as a political discourse by the current ruling elites of Turkey in the post-2010 period. In doing that, the article first defines what the politicization of history ... -
Transformation of Turkey’s Regional Policies: The Case of the KRG Referendum Debacle
(Routledge, 2018-10-02)Turkey’s response to the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq’s independence referendum took most observers by surprise. The prevailing assumption was that, despite its vocal objections, Turkey would eventually just ... -
Justice and development party's understanding of democracy and democratisation: Cultural relativism and the construction of the west as the 'other'
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2018-01-01)The perception of Turkey as a model of attractive country in the region has started to change in the recent years. In the first decade of the JDP rule Turkey was seen as an emerging power with its strong economy, improving ... -
Are credit rating agencies regionally biased?
(Elsevier B. V., 2018-12-01)We investigate claims of regional bias in the sovereign credit ratings given by the rating agencies Fitch, Moody's and Standard & Poor's by considering a wide range of macroeconomic, financial, institutional, regional and ... -
Utilization of health-care services by young children: The aftermath of the Turkish Health Transformation Program
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2018-07-01)The Turkish Health Transformation Program, initiated in 2003, has identified achieving universal access to health care as 1 of its main tenets. To date, substantial progress has been made toward universal health coverage. ... -
Relative deprivation and life satisfaction among europeans: Keeping up with others
(Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, 2018-01-01)Relative deprivation (RD) defines the feeling of being deprived of something that others have. Most studies of RD rely on within-country reference groups. This study is one of the few studies examining the role of global ... -
Wash trades as a stock market manipulation tool
(Elsevier B. V., 2018-12-01)This study empirically investigates the profitability of one of the most widely used trade-based manipulation tools, namely wash trading. Using a unique account-level data set for the period 2003–2006 from the Istanbul ... -
A dynamic network analysis of the world oil market: Analysis of OPEC and non-OPEC members
(Elsevier B. V., 2018-09-01)We characterize the dynamic network structure of major oil producing countries. We examine the oil production coordination of 13 Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and 17 non-OPEC members. We construct ... -
Multilateral limit pricing in price-setting games
(Academic Press Inc., 2018-09-01)In this paper, we characterize the set of pure strategy undominated equilibria in differentiated Bertrand oligopolies with linear demand and constant unit costs when firms may prefer not to produce. When all firms are ... -
Overlooked benefits of consumer credit growth: impact on formal employment
(SpringerOpen, 2018-12-01)This paper investigates the role of consumer credit growth and expansion of consumer financial services on the reduction of informal employment in a developing country. I argue that financial services growth should lead ... -
Another lesson learned in Afghanistan: the concept of cultural intelligence
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017)Culture has recently become a significant aspect of military operations; the ability to win hearts and minds' of a local population is gained through cultural awareness, a product of cultural intelligence. This article ...
