The subject of this paper is the examination the convergence of per capita carbon dioxide emissions of the G7 countries during the 1960–2005 period in a nonlinear panel analysis framework. In this approach, first the linearity of the series was tested, and when the linearity was rejected, the...

In this study, we analyze the validity of Halloween effect in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) between January 1990 - December 2010 which implies stock returns are lower during the May-October period versus the November-April period. As well as the Least Squares Method, we use Huber’s M-estimator...

The main aim of this study is to analyze stochastic convergence dynamics for selected East Asian and Pacific countries over the period 1960–2010, using a recently introduced unit root test with a Fourier function capable of capturing unknown form for structural breaks. Our test results show...

In this study, we test the nonlinear dependence in the Turkish stock market namely, Istanbul stock exchange-100 over the period 2 January 1988 - 31 December 2010 by employing Hinich (1996) portmanteau test statistic jointly with Hinich, and Patterson (2005) non-overlapped windowed testing...

In this study, we analyze what kind of effect public investment has on private sector investment by employing unit root and cointegration tests, which allow a structural break between 1970-2009. The results, we obtained, show that the public investment has crowding in effect on private sector...

This study investigates the effect of per capita income on per capita health expenditures in Turkey over the period 1975–2007 by using ARDL bounds test approach to the cointegration considering both demand and supply side variables. Since we reject the null hypothesis that there is no...

Bu calisma, Turk sermaye piyasasinda hisse senedi fiyatlari ile islem hacmi arasindaki nedensellik iliskisini gunluk veriler araciligiyla 1990-2012 donemi icin arastirmaktadir. Literaturdeki onceki calismalardan farkli olarak, pozitif ve negatif soklara verilen tepkilerin farkli olabilecegi ve...