There is an important support to the view in public that crime rate has been increasing in the recent years in Turkey. In addition, it is argued that social and economic factors play an important role in increasing the crime in the country. The aim of this article is to determine to what extent...

This study deals with the interaction between innovations and foreign trade across NUTS2 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics–2) regions of Turkey during the time period of 2002–2009. The aim of this study is to deal with the effects of innovations on the foreign trade, by...

The aim of this study is to compare the ex post forecast accuracies of VAR, ARIMA, ES, Combining and Add-factor methods. In this comparison, the ex post forecasts of 2000:1-2000:4 are obtained by using the data of the Turkish private consumption for the period of 1987:1-1999:4. Beside private...

This paper considers the forecast accuracies of VAR and ARIMA models. The paper, hence, employs monthly Turkish CPI, Exchange Rate and Interest rate variables for the period 1994:1-200:07, and, observes the ex-post forecast values of the relevant variables. To this end, paper first determines...

Turkish Abstract: Çalışmada, İMKB 100 endeksinin 1995-2004 dönemine ait günlük ve haftalık verileri kullanılarak, finansal verilerde sıkça rastlanan volatilite kümelenmesi, asimetrik fiyat hareketleri, kaldıraç etkisi ve kalın kuyruk özellikleri araştırılmış, volatiliteyi...

Turkish Abstract: Bu çalışmada, hisse senedi getiri modellerinde yapılan hatalara dikkat çekmek ve sonraki çalışmalarda bu hataların tekrarlanmasını önlemek amaçlanmıştır. Hisse senedi getirilerini veya fiyatlarını açıklamayı amaçlayan modelleri öneren çalışmalar...

English Abstract: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand was the first central bank that adopted formal Inflation Targeting in 1990, then others followed it. During the years 2002-2006, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) has implemented Implicit Inflation Targeting and at the beginning of...

Ortadoğu, hem dinlerin kesişme noktası olması hem de petrol zenginliği nedeniyle yıllar boyunca egemenlik mücadelelerine sahne olmuş ve bu nedenle de istikrarsızlaşmış bir bölgedir. Petrolün 20.yüzyılda enerji kaynağı olarak kömürün yerini alması nedeniyle, bölge tüm...