Turkey’s membership of EU will lead to the enlargement of already established customs union between EU and Turkey for the agricultural products. This involves not only a full liberalization of agricultural trade within the EU but also the implementation of a Common external tariff. In this new...

Agricultural production is heavily dependent on water availability in Turkey, where half the crop production relies on irrigation. Irrigated agriculture consumes about 75 percent of total water used, which is about 30 percent of renewable water availability. This study analyzes the likely...

The skill biased technological change (SBTC) hypothesis relates earnings inequality to the change in technology with the hypothesis that technology increases the relative demand for skilled labor. In this paper we will investigate the evidence of SBTC hypothesis for two digit level 9 sectors in...

The origin of entropy dates back to 19th century. In 1948, the entropy concept as a measure of uncertainty was developed by Shannon. A decade after in 1957, Jaynes formulated Shannon’s entropy as a method for estimation and inference particularly for ill-posed problems by proposing the so...

Türkiye’nin AB üyeliği sonucunda tarım malları ticareti serbest hale gelecektir. Serbestleşmenin olası fayda ve kazanımları, Türkiye ve AB’nin tarım politikalarının izleyeceği yola bağlıdır. Çalışmada AB üyeliğinin olası etkilerini değerlendirmek için...

In this paper, the impacts of an agricultural trade liberalization between the EU and mediterranean partner countries (MPCs) including Turkey are analyzed by employing an Armington trade model structure for both the imports and exports of the EU. The study uses EU’s agricultural trade data at...

Türkiye’nin Avrupa Birliği üyeliği, halen Türkiye ile Avrupa Birliği arasında yürürlükte olan Gümrük Birliği antlaşmasını gıda ve tarım ürünlerine de içine alacak şekilde genişletecektir. Bu gelişme sadece Türkiye ile AB arasındaki gıda ve tarımsal ürünler dış...

Agricultural production is heavily dependent on water availability in Turkey, where half the crop production relies on irrigation. Irrigated agriculture consumes about 75 percent of total water used, which is about 30 percent of renewable water availability. This study analyzes the likely...

Turkey’s membership to the EU will involve full liberalization of agricultural trade with the EU. The effects of liberalization are bound to depend on the path of agricultural policies in Turkey and in the EU during the accession negotiations. In order to evaluate the possible impacts of a...