This paper investigates consumer demand, competition and welfare in the Turkish deposit and credit markets in 2002-2009 period by using banks'market shares in these markets. A discrete choice structural demand model developed by Berry (1994) is employed in the estimations. As market shares...

This paper first points out the lack of consensus between empirical and theoretical studies of income inequality and redistribution. While theoretical papers show that income inequality increases redistribution, empirical studies fail to confirm the same result. The paper later shows that even...

This chapter investigates the relationship between interbank funds and efficiencies for the commercial banks operating in Turkey between 2001 and 2006. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is executed to find the efficiency scores of the banks for each year, and fixed effects panel data regression is...

This work aims to shed light on the co-movement patterns of the real estate markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council region in time-frequency spaces by employing wavelet coherence analysis on daily frequency time series data covering the period from 2013M1 to 2023M3. The results indicate that all...

In times of crisis, stock markets experience a significant increase in returns volatility, which leads to spillovers across equity sectors. The purpose of this study is to investigate the asymmetric spillovers across ten U.S equity sectors, representing different industries. Daily prices of...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant financial losses globally, increasing the volatility of financial assets. To address this issue, this study models the stock market returns volatility of developed economies during the pandemic using the GJR-GARCH (1, 1) family. The dataset includes...

This paper examines the factors that affect the returns of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) coins and emphasizes the significance of news-based sentiment in the market. Results show that sentiment has a notable impact on DeFi returns, with negative sentiment presenting greater influence than...