This paper examines the productivity performance of Turkish State Agricultural Enterprises using Data Envelopment Analysis approach. Regarding this, the paper mainly focuses on production efficiency or technical efficiency and total factor productivity growth of the enterprises over the...

(Turkish) Gıda gereksiniminin dışarıya bağımlı olmadan giderilebilmesi ve uluslararası ticarette rekabet edebilir düzeye gelinebilmesi için tarım sektörü ve tarım politikaları, ülke ekonomilerinde önemli bir yere sahiptir. Bu nedenle, AB’ye üye ülkeler, kendi tarım...

İktisat yazınında, fiyat seviyesinin belirlenmesinde Miktar Teorisi önemli bir yere sahiptir. Woodford (1994, 1995), Sims (1994), Leeper (1991) Fiyatlar Genel Düzeyine İlişkin Maliye Teorisi’nde (FTPL) ise Ricardocu eşdeğerliğin sağlanmadığı ekonomilerde kamu borçları servet...

In this study, volatility of sock return behavior through a regime-Switching Asymmetric Power GARCH Model (RS-APGARCH) analyses in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE), Turkey, during the period of 1988-2006 and show that ISE's asymmetric response and the intensity of this response to good and/or bad...

Over the course of the recent liquidity crisis, the Federal Reserve made several changes to its primary credit lending facility such as narrowing the spread between the primary credit rate and the target funds rate and increasing the term of the borrowing. In this paper, we use the model...

The literature has so far focused on the risk-return tradeoff in equity markets and ignored alternative risky assets. This paper is the first to examine the presence and significance of an intertemporal relation between expected return and risk in the foreign exchange market. The paper provides...

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly is one of the best, if not the best, books ever written on the history of financial crises. It presents a comprehensive survey of financial crises utilizing an extraordinary database of macroeconomic and financial series. The massive...

We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company. We were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender between October 2006 and January 2007. Access to such information is rare....

An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being more likely to choose competitive incentive schemes, even when factors such as ability and risk aversion are controlled for. This paper examines the effect of information on the...

This study investigates export and import dynamics of Turkey in the context of the main Broad Economic Classification (BEC) sectors. Our results suggest that the trade equations do not remain stable when an endogenously estimated regime change is taken account. According to our results,...