The sovereign debt crisis that deepened within the last three years in particular Eurozone countries makes up one of the major components of the current global economic crisis (2006-2011) which were briefly described in Kibritçioğlu (2011). In this follow-up study, the historical and political...

Sendikasyon kredilerinde uygulanan faiz oranı iki bölümden oluşmaktadır. Birinci bölüm, baz olarak alınan, Libor ya da Euribor gibi uluslararası kabul görmüş değişken bir faiz oranı iken, ikinci bölüm bu baz oranının üzerine eklenen ve uluslararası literatürde spread olarak...

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...

This paper focuses on emerging countries whose credit ratings are upgraded to investmentʺ level since 1990 and analyses the trends in selected financial and macroeconomic indicators before and after the upgrade decision. The analysis reveals that access to foreign capital gets easier after...

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...

Economic integration theory suggests that each member benefits from establishing a customs union; because the country that has relatively lower income will grow faster than the others, income and growth rates of all member countries will be equalised in the long-run. However, endogenous growth...

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...

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...

There has been witnessed a great transformation in the world trade over the last three decades. One of the main developments in this transformation is called “new regionalism phenomenon” that distinguish from earlier regionalism. The aim of this paper is to review the major elements of new...

On the 18th and 19th of June 2012, the leaders of the G20 countries will meet in Los Cabos, Mexico, to discuss a variety of current and long-term problems contained in the agenda of 2012 which was determined with respect to the objectives and conclusions of the previous summits. In this study,...