This paper examines business cycle characteristics of the Turkish economy in the liberalization (post-1980) period using a Markov-switching Autoregressive (MSAR) model framework. The importance of the model selection process is emphasized in an extensive search for the appropriate MS model. The...

This paper examines interactions and feedbacks between categories of capital flows and economic growth in Turkey for the 1992:01-2009:08 period. Our empirical analysis is based on a new version of the causality test of John Geweke (1982, p. 77) and Yuzo Hosoya (1991, p. 88) in the frequency...

In this paper, the existence of size and book-to-market effects in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) is investigated for the period between 1990-2002. In order to isolate the size and book-to-market effects from each other, similar to the method used by Fama-French (1993), specific portfolios...

The view that profitability, not growth, is the main driving force behind the firm performance, and unprofitable high growth can not lead to financial success has often been discussed in the literature. In this study, I tested this hypothesis on Turkey’s top 1000 data using an extended version...

In this paper, the existence of size and book-to-market effects in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) is investigated for the period between 1990-2002. In order to isolate the size and book-to-market effects from each other, similar to the method used by Fama-French (1993), specific portfolios...

This dissertation explores the applicability of recently developed simulation-based econometric methods to the analysis of spatial price determination and integration of markets. As such a measure of market integration is developed within the context of well-known point-location competitive...