Turkey’s candidacy has been approved in Helsinki Heads of State and Government Summit between the dates of 10-11 December 1999. After the Summit, it felt like as if Turkey was going to be a full member immediately as it was in the Customs Union case. Although the first six months is over,...

Turkish Abstract: Bu calisma uzun zaman once yazilmis olmasina ragmen bugun dahi onemini korumaktadir. Her seyden once geleneksel olmayan bir ulke finansmanini konu almaktadir. 1959 yilindan basliyarak OECD, bugunku ulke politikalarina yon vermek kaydiyla calisan IMF gibi kuruluslardan biri...

The Convention on the Future of Europe has completed its work and submitted the “Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe” to the Presidency on the 18th of July, 2003. This “draft” which brings forth certain fundamental changes to the institutional structure of the Union will...

The Republic of Azerbaijan is one of the oil and gas rich countires of the former Soviet Union. After the second stage of the Shah Deniz gas field, natural gas exltation and exportation became one of the key issues in Azerbaijan’s oil and gas stategy. Diversification of the oil and gas...

The Lisbon Treaty entered into force on December 1, 2009, marking a new level of EU’s initiatives on institutional change and policy reforms in 2000’s. The purpose of this study is to provide an outline of the changes in the institutional structure of EU with the Lisbon Treaty, considering...

Bu calisma, 1995’de Turkiye ve Avrupa Birligi (AB) arasinda imzalanan Gumruk Birligi (GB) anlasmasi sonrasi Turkiye’nin Bati Avrupa’ya olan ihracatinin yapisinda degisme olup olmadigini sektorel seviyede analiz etmektedir. Turkiye’nin toplam ithalati icinde AB’nin payi 1995’de %47.2...

This study is concerned with the foreign direct investments flows from and out of Turkey in terms of regional and sectoral distributions during the period of 2000-2007. It is noted that Turkey imports substantial amount of foreign direct investment from the European continent. The majority of...

This paper statistically investigates the economic growth – international capital nexus in Turkey. Firstly, the descriptive similarities between the empirical distributions of the economic growth and international capital inflows time series in Turkey are reported and the equality of the...