M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Loss aversion and refund policies 
    Güçlü, Mehmet Akif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis examines the relationship between loss aversion and refund policy decisions of firms. We consider a two-stage duopoly model with horizontal product differentiation, with and without loss aversion. Firms decide ...
  • A new approach to the third generation currency crisis models :|an application for Turkey 
    Bayrak, Tufan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Since the 1980s, three currency crisis models have emerged to explain the formation of currency crises and define the appropriate policies. The purpose of this study is to summarize the first and second generation crisis ...
  • Intergenerational earnings mobility in Turkey :|a comparable estimate 
    Demirtaş, Nizam Melikşah. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In this paper, we empirically examine the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Turkey. We do this by providing cross-country comparable estimates of intergenerational earnings and income elasticities (IGE) using ...
  • Price impact estimation of bond market :|a machine learning approach 
    Sert, Saim Ayberk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    We conduct an empirical study to analyze the aggregate price impact behavior of Turkish government bonds over 17 years. Moreover, we want to find out the determinants of price impact for each trade. The primary motivation ...
  • Symmetric equilibrium in contests :|evidence from a TV show 
    Yavuz, Büşra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This paper analyzes symmetric equilibrium resolving the behaviors of the contestants in a cooking contest where points are revealed at the end of each stage. There is an independent observer who evaluates the cook without ...
  • The effects of the compulsory schooling law on education-occupation mismatch in the Turkish labor market 
    Erarslan, Rabia. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In Turkey, the duration of compulsory schooling increased from 5 years to 8 years in 1997. With this substantial change, the average educational attainment of individuals increased. This thesis estimates the effects of ...
  • A study on the Turkish insurance sector :|with a special emphasis on recent deregulations and its protracted impact on the growth of the Turkish economy 
    Çöğendez, M. Tunç. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1991., 1991.)
    In this thesis, the role of the insurance sector in the financial system in Turkey and the changing aspect of the sector through the new deregulations have been investigated. Financial analysis of the sector and comparison ...
  • Gold mining in Mount Ida :|development discourses and valuation languages in the social media 
    Tabak, Çağla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis analyses the development discourses and valuation languages used in the social media during the environmental conflict over the gold mining project in Mount Ida. Public opposition had escalated at the operational ...
  • Commodity taxation with price-dependent preferences 
    Budak, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This study focuses on price-dependent preferences and their taxation. They have been subject to research in the field of economics since the beginning of the twentieth century. In general, the researchers classified these ...
  • Wage returns to different levels of schooling in Turkey 
    Kıribrahim Sarıkaya, Özgen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    In this paper, I estimate the returns to the different levels of educational attainment, such as completing at least middle school, at least high school, and college for men and women in Turkey by using a fuzzy regression ...
  • Conditional commitments and the voluntary contributions mechanism :|an experimental study 
    Kart, Edip. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    In this paper, we present an agreement mechanism that uses the notion of conditional commitment to reach stable and efficient outcomes in the voluntary contributions mechanism. Theoretically, we show that the use of our ...
  • Modelling farmers’ marketing processes :|the case of the potato sector in Turkey’s Çorum province 
    Yıldıran, Safa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Many reports and calculations regarding the share of each actor in the final price of agricultural products show that there exists a downward pressure on producer prices. Even if a substantial body of the studies on the ...
  • Energy poverty and the characteristics of energy-poor households in Turkey 
    Kibar, Zehra Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Energy poverty is an important and distinct part of the multi-dimensional poverty concept and it is a growing concern in the international arena. There are many well-documented country-specific studies on the concept of ...
  • Economic valuation for rectificatory justice :|the case of the oil spill at Turkey’s Gencelli Bay 
    Aslan, Beste Gün. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    On August 29, 2018, an oil spill reached to the shores of Gencelli Bay, in Foça district, İzmir—a small scenic town which is home to environmentally protected areas with high ecosystem value and where people’s livelihood ...
  • Using machine learning to develop an asset allocation application 
    Erbay, Cihat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This paper aims to analyze factor mimicking portfolio (FMP) construction in the context of Machine Learning and use it in a practical application. Inflation is chosen as the target macroeconomic factor in this study. We ...
  • Interactions between economic integration and foreign direct investment: |a comparative analysis between Spain and Turkey 
    Karagözoğlu (Öz), Sumru. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1991., 1991.)
    This study tried to extract the effects of economic integration on foreign direct investment by comparing the performance of an economically integrated and an unintegrated country , spain and Turkey , respectively. Locational ...
  • Welfare analysis in an imperfectly competitive electricity market with distributed renewable generation 
    Sayıcı, Hüseyin Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis aims to analyze the optimal amount of renewable electricity generation in a dominant firm and a competitive fringe model. The dominant firm(s) produces non-renewable electricity and the fringe produces renewable ...
  • Regional differences in the effects of Turkey’s 1997 compulsory schooling policy 
    Ocal, Alp. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    In this thesis, we examined how the increased compulsory education from five to eight years, as a result of the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform, affected educational outcomes of women and men and rural and urban residents ...
  • Dropping out of the labor force :|women in Turkey 
    Genç, Yazğı. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    According to the microdata of Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) in 2017, the half amount of women are not in the labor force even though they are not disabled, retired or students. The share of the women who have worked ...
  • The effect of Syrian refugees on the school enrollment of youth in Turkey 
    Erbay, Elif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Since the beginning of the Syrian conflicts, many people took refuge in neighboring countries. Turkey is the top refugee-hosting country today with the number of nearly 3.6 million registered refugees. This study is conducted ...

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