Turkey has started to implement the export-oriented foreign trade strategy in place of foreign trade importsubstitution strategy with the decisions of January 24, 1980. The 1980s, that began to implement the export-oriented foreign trade strategy,was a period in which economic and trade...

Many developed and developing countries, who want to fulfill their social responsibilities covering investment spending that requires long-term, are passed to the multi-year budgeting practices instead of the classic one-year budget execution. In this respect, Turkey has passed multi-year...

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...

Turkish Abstract: Bu çalışmada zengin petrol ve doğalgaz kaynaklarına sahip ve dünyanın en hızlı büyüyen ekonomilerinden biri olan Azerbaycan'ın Türkiye'nin enerji sektörüne yapmış olduğu yatırımlar ve bu yatırımların Azerbaycan - Türkiye Ekonomik ilişkilerine pozitif...

The standard theory of international trade almost implies that trade patterns are highly static and persistent. Therefore, the issue of trade duration is generally ignored in these standard trade models. The literature on trade duration has been popular since the seminal works by Besedes and...

As a result of the current global financial crisis, in 2009 the world economy is likely to experience the largest contraction since World War II and the unemployment rate to reach historical highs in many countries. The fact that the current global crisis is originated from the U.S. and followed...

As a result of the current global financial crisis, in 2009 the world economy is likely to experience the largest contraction since World War II and the unemployment rate to reach historical highs in many countries. The fact that the current global crisis is originated from the U.S. and followed...

General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), one of the legal documents in the Appendix to the agreement that had established WTO, is the first multi-lateral agreement that defines and delineates the basic concepts, rules and principals of international trade in services. This paper discusses...