The main purpose of this paper is to test the impacts of foreign direct investments and imports on research and development intensities of European Countries and Turkey. A panel data analysis has been applied to test the relationship between foreign direct investments, imports and research and...

This study measures economic performances of the 15 transition economies for two periods: The Soviet Union period and transition period. These periods include data of countries for 1970-1989 and 1991-2005. It is known that centrally planned economies are mainly criticized for widespread economic...

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(This paper is in Turkish) This study aims to analyze the resilience (sensitivity) of the NUTS-2 Regions of Turkey to the recessionary shocks in 1994 and 1999 as well as the degree of recovery of regional economies from the shocks. The main four findings are as follows: i) the sensitivity to the...

Her bölge ekonomik büyüme ve kalkinma için bir potansiyeli vardir. Bu potansiyel alanlarin basinda ise o bölgenin kültürü gelmektedir. Kültür, katma degeri yüksek ekonomik bir degere dönüstürüldügünde bölgenin gelisiminde önemli bir araca dönüsebilmektedir. Kültür...

Input-output (I-O) tables provide a snapshot of an economy, with details on i) intersectoral exchange of intermediate inputs, ii) components of final demand for sectoral outputs, and iii) components of sectoral value added and production. The tables are generally prepared by national statistics...

In 2009, the Competition Authority (CA) in Turkey penalized 27 broiler chicken producers for agreeing to restrict supply and controlling prices, hence, forming a cartel. The CA based its punishment decision on communication records among major broiler chicken producers, using raw price series...

First, I calculate separate poverty lines for urban, self-producing rural and other rural households. Second, I analyze vulnerability to income poverty and food poverty in Turkey and show that while self-producing rural households are as vulnerable to income poverty as other rural households,...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye’de Sağlıkta Dönüşüm sürecini egemen iktisat anlayışı konumundaki neo-klasik yaklaşıma referansla tartışmaktır. Sağlık Bakanlığı (SB), son dönemde hızla artan sağlık harcamalarını kontrol altına alabilmek için, sağlık...

This paper examines the importance of gender on different job mobility patterns using an extensive household survey data from İzmir, third largest city in Turkey. The determinants of job-to-job and job-to-non-employment transitions are analyzed with the help of a multinomial logit estimation...