This paper reviews the literature on the Middle Income Trap and compares Turkey to the rest of the trapped and non-trapped (non-middle income trapped) countries. We analyze country experiences by focusing on the role of well-designed and high quality education system to avoid the trap. When we...

Bu çalışmada 23.10.1987-15.02.2011 döneminde İMKB-100 endeksi getirisinin kaotik yapıya sahip olup olmadığının belirlenmesi ve kaotik davranış biçiminin varlığı durumunda öngörüde en başarılı sonucu verecek olan modelin seçilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Buna yönelik olarak ilk...

Except from being an indicator of regional development, city indexes formed in the area of finance by Borsa Istanbul might be a significant guide for investors while deciding on an investment in the relevant city. Due to the fact that the main purpose of these indexes is to monitor the price and...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Sutton’ın batık maliyet endüstrilerine yönelik kestirimlerinin geçerliliğini panel veri seti kullanarak Türk imalat sanayi için sınamaktır. Bu bakımdan yoğunlaşmanın alt sınırları; gözlemlenebilen endüstriye has özellikler, giriş engelleri ve...

This paper aims to investigate the actual nature of the interest rate pass-through to Turkish cash, automobile, housing and corporate loan rates. Focusing on the possibility of nonlinearity in the adjustment of lending rates due to financial market conditions and monetary policies, we adopt the...

Dünya Ticaret Örgütü kapsamında gerçekleştirilen çok taraflı ticaret müzakerelerinin hedeflendiği şekilde sonuçlandırılamamasının sonucu olarak birçok ülkenin serbest ticaret anlaşmalarına yöneldiği görülmektedir. Bu kapsamda, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, Avustralya,...

This study investigates the dynamics of inflation for Turkish economy from 1990 to until 2013 under the New Keynesian Philips Curve framework by using the non-causal time series methodology developed by Lanne and Saikkonen (2011) and Lanne and Luoto (2013). There is a vigorous ongoing debate on...

This paper examines the relationship between firm characteristics and the timeliness of financial reporting in listed non-financial companies on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) from 2003 through 2010. The descriptive analysis indicates that the mean reporting lag is 83 days which is within the...

Credit rating is at the heart of conventional loan business and gaining more importance due to a new regulatory environment for capital adequacy. This paper investigates one of the essentials of credit rating, non-financial factors, with a context of informal sectors and regions. We have...

Investors take the advantage of disequilibrium in spot and forward exchange markets by investing in higher yield currency on a covered basis. An alternative of covered interest arbitrage is uncovered interest arbitrage (UIA) in which investors choose to remain uncovered accepting the currency...