Gas from the Russian Federation accounts for a quarter of the consumption in the European Union and for more than 40% of its imports. In 2010 essentially all of these imports depended on transit through either Belarus or Ukraine, both being major importers of Russian gas themselves. On both...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the network effect on the probability of job finding. This paper uses a specific data set from the Izmir region, prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute for a specific project carried out by Izmir University of Economics in cooperation with the Izmir...

In this paper, we develop a structural macro econometric model for Turkey, to assess the role of structural characteristics of an emerging economy on macroeconomic indicators. In this model, standard macroeconomic policy results are observed as the target levels and actual levels. Technically,...

The Turkish Health System underwent several evolutions from the early days of the Republic until the beginning of 1990s. The most radical changes came after 1990s in the context of reforms implemented within Turkey’s accession process to European Union. The Turkish Health System has been...

The aim of this study demographic characteristics of consumers, to identify the relationship between living standards and food shopping habits, determine the level of awareness by the MFAL of measures taken to ensure food safety and to develop recommendations in this context.Research is the...

The main purpose of this study is to carry out descriptive and econometric analyses (at the province and district levels) to identify the urbanization–related determinants of the electoral success of the currently-ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP). The AKP...

In the literature, there are many studies to measure financial liberalization indices, but none of them has studied for the case of Iran. Therefore, to fill this gap, in this paper we introduce a comprehensive indicator for financial liberalization which considers various aspects of financial...

This study aims to analyse Turkish economy for the 2000-2012 term with emphasis on labor market hysteresis within the framework of New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC). In this study employment and unemployment series are tested for stationarity and relevant statistical analysis is realized....

Using a mixture of macro variables such as growth and bank lending rates and firm-specific micro variables, this paper examines the determinants of short term debt using firm level panel data for Turkish manufacturing companies traded in Istanbul Stock Exchange. The original sample drawn from...

The study aims to analyze  Turkish economy for the period 2000-2012 with emphasis on hysteresis mechanism in labor markets. New Keynesian (NK) framework has natural rate (or Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemploymet - NAIRU) vs alternative theory of hysteresis as  explanations for...