This paper estimates the impact of school quality on the transition to higher education examination (abbreviated as YGS in Turkey) outcomes by controlling for the student quality. Either the class size or the teacher-pupil ratio in main branches is used as a proxy for the quality of schools. Due...

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...

This paper uses a simple VAR analysis to examine 5 CEE countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia) in order to understand whether their business cycles are synchronized with each other and/or with the major economies that they are supposed to be linked with, namely the...

Bu çalışma Türkiye’deki parasal aktarım mekanizmasında para’nın rolünü incelemektedir. Çalışmamız Carpenter ve Demiralp (2007)’in yapmış olduğu araştırmayı bütünleyici niteliktedir. Carpenter ve Demiralp (2007) gelişmiş finansal piyasalarda banka kredilerinin zorunlu...

An economic signalling model contributing to the explanation of religious schism is presented. Religious groups are interpreted as a device for exchanging information about and via others. Two effects result. First, the larger the network, the worse the signal quality one receives of the type of...

Turkish Statistics Institution (TUIK) has formed input-output tables for various years. For example, in the years 1959, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1979, 1985, 1990 and 1998, input-output tables and, in relation to them, coefficient matrices and Leontief inverse matrices were formed. Although all these...

The Aegean Region, which is the focus of this study, is the second most developed region of Turkey. Its share in the GDP has remained relatively stable around 17 percent during 1990-2000 periods according to data provided by State Planning Organization of Turkey. The region enjoys a number of...

Purpose: The present study is intended to analyze hospital efficiency according to ownership. Methodology/approach: The method used in this study is the data envelopment analysis (variable returns to scale-DEA). With this method, the efficiency levels of the active training hospitals in Turkey...

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