This dissertation contains applications of agent-based financial market models and nonlinear econometric methods in financial economics. The first part deals with the analysis of the effectiveness of currency transaction taxes within financial market models with traders with heterogeneous...

The purpose of this paper is to construct a structural macroeconomic model to design monetary and fiscal policies aimed at attaining macroeconomic objectives. The study further attempts to simulate a baseline and policy scenario to evaluate the impact of such monetary and fiscal policy...

This paper evaluates how much chaos is generating COVID-19 globally. We try to present a new indicator is called “The Levels of Uncertainty by the COVID-19 index (TLOUC-Index)”. The main objective of TLOUC-Index is to evaluate how much health, economic, and social uncertainty can COVID-19...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between oil price changes and the output growth in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach - The data were taken from International Financial Statistics databases, consisting of monthly data for the period 1986:01-2014:09....

Proponents of minimum wage increases have argued that such hikes can serve as an engine of economic growth and assist low-skilled individuals during downturns in the business cycle. However, a review of the literature provides little empirical support for these claims. Minimum wage increases...

This paper reconsiders the role of macroeconomic shocks and policies in determining the Great Recession and the subsequent recovery in the US. The Great Recession was mainly caused by a large demand shock and by the ZLB on the interest rate policy. In contrast with previous findings, the...