Turkey is well behind the many countries according to socio-economic development criteria. Activities aim to make Istanbul a financial center seem paradoxical due to less developed and risky characteristics of national economy and financial system. It seems that these activities have both...

Bu çalışmanın ana amacı halihazırda çeşitli kurumlar tarafından uygulanan farklı metodolojilere dayanılarak elde edilmiş “fıkhi uygunluk kriterleri”ne yönelik eleştirilere dönük önerilerde bulunmaktır. Ayrıca, bu çalışma, İslamın birincil kaynaklarından (Kuran ve...

The 1980s witnessed the failure of the planned economic development models and absolute victory of the free trade thought. However, the context of the 1990s also included money and capital free movements besides foreign exchange and banking crises. The effective demand crisis of 1929, social...

Küresel piyasalarda 2006 yılının ikinci yarısından itibaren yeni bir döneme girildiği gözlenmektedir. Bu yeni dönem önceki dönemlere göre belirli açılardan farklılık arz etmektedir. Yeni dönem 1990’ların finansal krizler döneminden farklıdır; çünkü bu dönemde...

Although there are many studies in the literature that investigate the relationship between stock returns and macroeconomic factors in the United States and other advanced economies, the number of studies that investigate this relationship in emerging market economies is astonishingly small....

In this paper the alternative value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES) analysis were made according to different error distribution assumptions by using stock market daily return series of Turkey (ISE100), United Kingdom (FTSE100), Japan (NIKKEI225) and France (CAC40). The backtesting...

The aim of the paper is to investigate the presence of herding towards the market in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) during the period of 2nd January 1997-29th February 2008. We got the evidence of the existence of herding behavior in ISE by the implementation of the methodology which is based on...

In this study monthly equity index values of twenty two emerging and twelve developed markets are used for the determination of cointegration relations developed by Johansen. The results of cointegration analysis show that Turkish stock market is cointegrated with seven developed and five...

This study has investigated the effect of VIX, created as an implied volatility in the US, on 15 emerging stock markets with the application of GJR-GARCH model. According to the results obtained, the emerging stock markets have leverage effect in conditional variance and emerging bad news...