M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • The investment performanceofa pension fund’s individual investors: A behavioral finance approac 
    Okar, Yiğit. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this thesis, we investigated the portfolio choice and trading characteristics of individuals using data from pension accounts. The data contains nearly 17000 individuals' accounts during 'the years 2008-2013. Various ...
  • Leasing state economic enterprises against foreign dept payments 
    Altaş, M. Orhan. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1990., 1990.)
    The Turkish economy is facing many problems in early 1990s. Especially State Economic Enterprises place a heavy burden on the economy and play an important role in these problems. In order to increase the efficiency,productivity ...
  • A performance analysis of commercial banks in Turkey 
    Şenses, Hazal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this study, I analyze the performance of the commercial banks in Turkey using the CAMEL approach and investigate the relationship between loan growth and soundness indicators such as asset quality, profitability and ...
  • The effect of the 2008 employment subsidy program in Turkey 
    İnan, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study examines the effect of an employment subsidy program initiated in 2008 on labor market outcomes of women. Since one of the recent problems in Turkish labor market is low female employment rate, it is important ...
  • An econometric analysisof the impactof Syrian refugees on crime in Turkey 
    Türküm, Fatma Betül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2018.)
    A common apprehension is that im.rrllgration raises crime rates. Yet, existing academic research has revealed no such outcome. Past and current studies discover that at the individual level, immigrants are not more prone ...
  • The importance and position of the flat glass sector within the glass industry of Turkey between 1977-1984 
    Yakut, Nilgün. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
    The steering role of industries are very important in developing countries. Determining functions of especially some industries have vital places in these economies. Among them, construction industry has a very considerable ...
  • Building a financial conditionsiIndex for Turkey 
    Çakır, Bayram. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The rapid expansion of financial markets in the last decades has increased the role of financial markets on economic activities. Given that most of macroeconomic models which only include interest rate and exchange rate ...
  • Economic concentration, labor misallocation and exchange rate shocks 
    Akhan, Nihan Nur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this paper, I empirically investigate the effect of economic agglomeration on resource misallocation. Using data on the universe of manufacturing firms in Turkey between 2005 and 2015 and firm specific exchange rates as ...
  • Evaluating the impact of Syrian refugees on Turkey’s labor market: A synthetic control approach 
    Aracı, Doğu Tan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this paper, the impact of recent Syrian refugee wave on natives’ labor market outcomes in Turkey is analyzed. The synthetic control method is used for the analysis, where for each treated region, a synthetic control ...
  • The impact of Syrian immigrants on the wages of unskilled natives in Turkey 
    Göğebakan, Anıl. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The armed conflict of the Syrian Civil War that has led many people emigrate from Syria to other countries started in March 2011. As one of the neighbours of Syria, Turkey has received more Syrian immigrants than any other ...
  • Unorthodox monetary policy with real-time measurements 
    Akgün, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this study, asymmetric interest rate corridor which is a part of Central Bank of Republic of Turkey’s unorthodox monetary policy is analyzed between the period 2011 and 2017. Using Bayesian filtering methods, output and ...
  • A neuroeconomic analysis of intertemporal decision-making: EEG source localization 
    Başaşçı, Mustafa Sami. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Using EEG, we studied the neural correlates of intertemporal decision making when subjects made binary choices between smaller/earlier and larger/later money amounts for 40 trials. We analyzed EEG data by using preprocessing ...
  • The impacts of improving educational attainment on the empowerment of women 
    Başkurt, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    We studied effects of 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey, which increased compulsory schooling from 5 years to 8 years on the empowerment of women. Individuals born before 1987 were not exposed to the reform, and ...
  • Measures of individual risk attitudes and portfolio choice: Evidence from an investment competition 
    Armut, Hanife. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this paper, I employ a large incentivized student sample who are also participants of an investment competition to investigate how different risk-attitude measurements have a relation with each olher, with demographic ...
  • Two essays on macroeconomics 
    Türk, Tuğçe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis is composed of two essays on macroeconomics. In the first one, the aim is to understand the role of the informal sector in determining countries’ access to the world technology frontier as well as to their own ...
  • Optimum currency areas: |political and economic optimums of the European monetary system 
    Günan, R. Engin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1986., 1986.)
  • Carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth and openness in Turkey: An ARDL model 
    Kara, İbrahim Murat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    In this thesis, I examine the effects of economic growth and trade openness on carbon dioxide emissions in Turkey for the period 1960-2014. Before the empirical analysis, there is an overview about the recent literature ...
  • On the number of brackets in piecewise linear income tax systems: An application 
    Bodur, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis aims to explore the welfare impacts of using different number of brackets to collect a specific amount of tax revenue in a piecewise linear income tax system. It does this by analyzing the effect of the number ...
  • Real exchange rate and export behavior: Firm level evidence 
    Dönmez, Anıl. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    In this thesis, the effect of bilateral real exchange rate changes on the firm-level export behavior of the Turkish manufacturing sector is investigated. Using the detailed panel of Turkish customs and industry data sets ...
  • Substitution elasticities in an energy-augmented CES production function: An empirical analysis for Turkey 
    Küçük, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Energy is an undebatable key element in today’s modern world. Whether it is the residential sector, services sector or the industry, the role of energy in our lives is highly important. This importance gets only magnified ...

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