This study comes up with a measure of the structural budget balance for the Turkish economy between 2006-2010 in order to assess fiscal stance and evaluate the sensitivity of the budget balance with respect to the business cycles. Calculating structural budget balance requires three steps:...

In the economic development process, important role of financial sector has long been emphasized in the literature. Especially with the emergence of endogenous growth theory, this relationship has again become very attractive and it is stated that financial development is one of the determinants...

Turkish social security system has been developed under various social security institutions to provide social insurance against various social risks since 1945. Although the system has just 62 years history, it is in such situation that it is just able to provide its services with income...

In this study, the overall sum of the activities of the public sector in the economy, "public economic efficiency" and the event is defined as the conjectural characteristics of the different forms have changed, but is assumed to continue. Still the primary economic goals set by the mechanisms...

Turkish abstract: Bu çalışmada 1996-2006 çeyreklik verileri kullanılarak Keynes'in ikiz açıklar hipotezinin Türkiye ve benzeri ülke grubu için analiz edilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Bu hipoteze göre, bütçe açıkları ile dış ticaret açıkları arasında pozitif bir ilişki...

Following the US financial crisis of 2006-2007, the global economy suffered from negative spillover effects of it since fall 2008. In this study, the effects of global financial crsis on Turkish economy (2008-2010) and the macroeconomic performance of the Turkish government (before and) during...

In order to understand the common policies implemented by European Union for ensuring the political and economical integration,it is necessary to analyze the European Union Budgetary Expenditures,which are reflections of such policies. In this study, EU budgetary expenditures during 2007-2010...

Increasing and sustaining the quality of life for people can be possible when they are healthy. Good health conditions require good quality and reachable health care services. Because of the market failure as a result of asymmetric information, public sector as well as private one provides...

2001 krizinden sonra 2007'ye kadar Türkiye ekonomisi uzun dönem ortalamasının çok üzerinde büyüdü. Üstelik bu büyüme hızı benzer ülkelerin büyüme hızlarının da üzerinde gerçekleşti. Aynı dönemde Türkiye mali disipline dayanan bir ekonomik programı uygulamaya koydu. Bu...

The Keynesian approach claims that a reduction in average taxes and/or an increase in autonomous government expenditures will stimulate growth in the economy through multiplier effects. The supply side economics, however, considers mainly the necessary cut in effective economy-wide marginal tax...