Real estate is one of the foremost and traditional investments for Turkish household. In addition to this traditional demand, it has also observed that Turkish real estate market becomes one of the popular investment destination for foreign investors. 2003-2007 period would be accepted as the...

The Turkish real estate market has shown noticeable developments in recent years due to various reasons. In this article, we are attempting to define the pros and cons of the Turkish real estate market. We are also questioning whether the deficiencies may decrease the potential value of the...

First regulations of securities firms were going back to Banking Crisis emerging at early 1980's. The number of securities firms in Turkey were booming in the late 1980's and early 1990's but the sector has been shrinking as a trend in terms of number of the securities firms nearly more than a...

It has been observed that the global financial crisis has had destructive impacts for both developed and developing countries. In this context, it seems that Turkey is positively decoupling from other countries due to a limited negative impact of the global financial crisis on its financial and...

In the process of global financial crisis, short sale transactions were banned at the countries having a developed capital markets to protect consumers and financial system. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.K. Financial Services Authority were the leading regulators adopted such...

Housing is one of the major socio-economic problems in Turkey. High intensivity of spontaneous settlements (gecekondu), nearly 40 % in urban area, would be accepted as the sufficient criterion for the level of the housing question in Turkey. Additionally there are important quality problems in...

After emerging from the U.S. real estate and financial markets, financial crisis has gradually become global. Due to both primary and secondary mortgage market problems in the U.S. are accepted as the essential reasons of the current crisis, it is believed that financial markets and real estate...

Official discipline, market discipline and self discipline are the disciplinary mechanisms and aim to direct firm-wide risk management. As the center of this mechanism self discipline is the principal control point combining accounting and reporting system, internal control, internal audit, risk...

Recent developments in Turkish derivatives markets demonstrate the increasing importance of risk management not only for individual banks but also for the entire system. In this context, this study analyzes the counterparty credit risk of OTC derivatives. The analysis is based on a hypothetical...

Housing shortage is one of important problems of Turkish housing markets, specifically for the low and middle income households. Despite growing production of Housing Development Agency (HDA, or TOKI), it seems that current market structure could not satisfy the growing gap. In the article, we...