M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • The effect of the private sector on geographic distribution of public sector physicians in Turkey, 1990-2000 
    Bilir, Ayça. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The availability and distribution of physicians is an important indicator of the strength of a health system and is highly associated with mortality rates and life expectancy. The purpose of this study is to determine the ...
  • Price discrimination in a network: a model of telecommunications networks 
    Günay, Selçuk Eren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis considers access pricing and consumer pricing problems of telecommunications firms as a context to analyze the effects of a network structure on firms' equilibrium strategies in Bertrand competition. The ability ...
  • Economic development and convergence in Turkey : a province-based assessment with a special emphasis on the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) 
    Onmuş, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The first aim of this study is to investigate whether there are improvements in the development levels of the most developed, developed, and GAP provinces in Turkey, and also whether there exists convergence in labor ...
  • Actual and revealed comparative advantage in OECD agriculture : (1986-2002) 
    Uz, Can. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis explains the variation in the revealed comparative advantage of OECD agriculture between 1986 and 2002, using panel data techniques. Specifically, it empirically assesses, on the one hand, the degree of consistence ...
  • Money demand estimation and currency substitution: evidence from Turkey 
    Zer, İlknur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    In this thesis, I try to represent both the long-run and short-run empirical relationships between the main Turkish macroeconomic series; the M1 money balances, real output and the opportunity costs variables for the period ...
  • An OLG model of production with cash-in-advance constraints 
    Sürel, Ayşe Müjde. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis shows the existence of the unique competitive equilibrium in a cash-in-advance economy involving overlapping generations of producers and workers. Producers have decreasing returns to scale technologies, and ...
  • A VAR frame work in analyzing the effects of anticipated and unanticipated monetary shocks on macro aggregates : the case of Turkey 
    Karapaşaoğlu, Fatma E. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1999., 1999.)
    This study examines the effects of anticipated and unanticipated monetary policy on macro variables for Turkey, over the period of 1987-1998, using a vector autoregression framework following Cochrane (1998). Monetary ...
  • On properties of return distributions in İstanbul Stock Exchange 
    Karahan, Mehmet Oğuz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    In this thesis study, the distributional behavior of return series of Istanbul StockExchange (ISE) stocks and some ISE indices are analyzed. Normality tests are conducted by employing Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Jarque-Bera ...
  • Choice of industry and its significance in the industrialization process 
    Eden, Müjgan. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1981., 1981.)
  • Female employment and intimate partner violence :|revisiting the impact of Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey 
    Gök Karcı, İlkem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) continues to be a major problem in Turkey, affecting almost one in three women yearly, according to the National Survey on Domestic Violence Against Women (NSDVW) surveys conducted by the ...
  • Insiders and outsiders in wage determination of the Turkish manufacturing industry 
    Kıvcı, Banu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1997., 1997.)
    The' Insider-Outsider' model suggests that both internal and external factors to the sectors play an important role in wage determination. The results of our analysis of a panel data set of Turkish two-digit manufacturing ...
  • The role of technological optimism in international climate agreements 
    Kösemen, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This research aims to explore the role of technological optimism in international climate agreements and how technological optimism affects the climate-related behaviors of countries. To this end, I built upon the dynamic ...
  • Foreign exchange rate forecasting by using machine learning algorithms :|developed vs. emerging economies 
    Akekmekçi, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis has twofold aim. For both of the aims, we forecast the exchange rate of currency pairs by using different models. First, we explore the exchange rate forecast performances of different linear and nonlinear ...
  • Welfare analysis of regional population distribution in Turkey 
    Zeki, Gamze. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Rapid urbanization in the last century has been accompanied with growing number of studies on spatial economics. Determining which factors affect households’ location choices is one of the most prominent topics that has ...
  • Government behavior and inflation in Turkey an interpretation based on two alternative approaches 
    Güner, Nezih. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1994., 1994.)
    In this study, two alternative forms of government behavior are proposed and their connections with the inflationary process in Turkey are analyzed using post-1980 data. The theory of optimal seigniorage predicts that if ...
  • Sequential tasks and moral hazard 
    Bakum, Ayşe Beyza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    A principal owns a two-stage project consisting of two tasks with a finish-to-start dependency where there exists an outcome externality between these tasks. A success in the first task may affect the probability of success ...
  • The effect of political business cycles on structural change 
    Özdemir, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This research provides evidence of political business cycles in Turkey between the 1960s and 2020s. Several political color dummy variables are employed with different dependent variables. While a shift from right-wing ...
  • Desert preferences and moral hazard in teams 
    Ertuğrul, Merve Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In teams, an agent with a higher effort may feel that he is not getting what he deserves if he is paid the same as an agent who exerts lower effort. If agents exert the same effort levels, the one who fails due to factors ...
  • Public safety, poverty, and inequality 
    Can, Mete. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis investigates how the optimal government response to criminal activity is shaped by national income and inequality in the manner of public safety expenditures. The literature on this issue is already well ...
  • Bidding behaviours in online auctions :|evidence from a used car market 
    Sandıkcıoğlu, Defne. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis investigates the impact of sellers’ different strategies and the bidders’ behaviors on the auction outcome among different auction formats. We aim to complement and extend the existing literature by providing ...

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