The countries of Latin America and Caribbean have had a modest performance in terms of economic growth since 2000. In addition, Latin America and the Caribbean has also been characterized as a region with a level of macroeconomic volatility much higher than developed economies. From this point...

Combinatorial optimization problems are usually NP-hard and the solution space of them is very large. Therefore the set of feasible solutions cannot be evaluated one by one. Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) are metaheuristic techniques...

Tourism is the world’s one of fastest growing industry and the largest service sector industry. It is also considered as one of the biggest industry in Turkish economy. Choosing a travel destination is a kind of multi-criteria decision making problem. Relative importance of factors across...

Turkish Abstract: Lojistik köyler birçok lojistik ile ilgili aktivitelerin gerçekleştirildiği özellikli alanlar olarak tanımlanabilir. Bu köylerin büyüklüğü, şehir merkezine olan uzaklığı, erişilebilirliği, karayollarına/havaalanlarına/ demir yollarına/limanlara olan...

The World Economic Forum has developed the Global Competitiveness Index to measure the countries' competitiveness and rank the countries according to their level of competition. This index is calculated separately for each country starting from 2007 considering the 12 indicators. In this study,...

Turkish Abstract:Zaman ve mekândan bağımsız olarak istenen bilgiye anında ulaşabilme imkânı sunan mobilite, internet ve mobil cihazların her geçen gün daha çok yaygınlaşmasıyla günlük hayattaki kullanım alanını artırmaktadır. Araştırmalara göre 2013 yılı 4....

For many years, economists have been using statistical tools to estimate parameters of macroeconomic models. Forecasting plays a major role in macroeconomic planning and it is an essential analytical tool in countries' economic strategies. In recent years, researchers are developing new...

During last 10 years some EU countries had economical instability. They have short and long term challenges such as unemployment, population ageing, globalization etc. In this study it is aimed to analyze macroeconomic indicators of EU countries' economic growth using panel data approach. Static...

Forecasting plays a major role in financial planning and it is an essential analytical tool in banks' strategies. In recent years, researchers are developing new techniques for estimation. Financial performance evaluation of banks is a kind of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem which...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the economic performance of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) countries during 2006-2016 periods. The Union for the Mediterranean comprises the 28 EU Member States, the European Commission and 15 Mediterranean countries namely Albania, Austria, Bosnia and...