The thesis at hand includes four essays that analyze issues related to the energy prices. In the first essay, the effects of oil prices on Turkish stock market activity is investigated by using vector autoregressive model (VAR). Specific attention is given to global liquidity conditions in order...

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...

This paper investigates the effects of global economic uncertainty and trade policy-related uncertainty in the US in predicting the bond and equity flows to Turkey during the period from January 2008 to November 2019. We use the time-varying Granger-causality test to assess the ability of...

The main objective of this study is to ascertain the importance and necessity of Turkey, based on trade and investment, in TTIP agreement as a partner country with both European Union (EU) and the USA. Here, it uses secondary data sources - Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) and...