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This report has been commissioned by the COMCEC Coordination Office to Prof. Dr. Serdar SAYAN. The report was prepared, in alphabetical order, by Prof. Dr. Sedef AKGÜNGÖR (senior researcher), Dr. M. Aykut ATTAR (team ...

With the implementation of the health transformation program, Turkey has gone through substantial changes in its health system in the last decade. This study relies on two nationally representative data sets to investigate ...

We use data on Turkish immigrants in two European welfare states, Denmark and Germany, and data on Turks at home. Unlike in most studies of immigrant poverty, we thus control for the differences in immigrant composition. ...

We consider second-price auctions with participation costs and investigate the effects of resale after an auction. There are two potential bidders whose valuations are commonly known. Bidders incur a privately known cost to ...

We empirically investigate differences in cost-effectiveness of public procurement auctions that are won by entrants and incumbents. We use a unique data set that covers all Turkish public procurement auctions for the years ...

We empirically examine international monetary policy coordination. We use the Global Economy Meetings (GEMs) at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) to design a novel empirical identification strategy. We find that ...

This paper empirically identifies the optimal number of bidders to achieve the lowest procurement prices in public procurement auctions. We examine a unique data set that covers all Turkish government procurement auctions ...

We examine the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) on government procurement practices in the European Union (EU). We analyse empirically whether the WTO GPA is effective in ...