İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi / Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
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Item Navigating the Storm: The Impact of Covid-19 on Turkish Exports(2023) Koymen Ozer, Seda; Maggioni, DanielaThe Covid-19 pandemic had a significant impact on global exports. The outbreak of the virus disrupted supply chains and caused a sharp decrease in demand for goods and services, which resulted in a decline in manufactured exports worldwide. In this study, we investigate the effect of Covid-19 on Turkish manufacturing exports by using a firm-product level dataset at monthly frequency over 2019-2021. In particular, we aim to understand the heterogeneous impact of the pandemic on different types of products in terms of their substitutability, complexity and factor intensity. We also disentangle the diversified repercussions of the shock by taking into consideration the participation of firms in GVCs. Our results suggest that the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a drop in Turkish firms' exports especially in the first 6-months of 2020 and their recovery has only became apparent in the second half of 2021. Also, firms exporting less substitutable, more complex and sophisticated goods, as well as goods with higher-physical and human-capital intensity have experienced a milder drop in their exports after the shock and have recovered faster. Moreover, exporting firms that are more involved in GVCs by sourcing their intermediates abroad have been less resilient as they were more exposed to the risk of supply chain disruptions. This higher risk exposition should be assessed together with their lower resilience associated with the properties of their output (less sophisticated, low human capital intensive and highly substitutable products).Item Disasters As An Ideological Strategy For Governing Neoliberal Urban Transformation in Turkey: Insights from Izmir/Kadifekale(2014) Saracoglu, Cenk; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4797-4879; 24325244; AAJ-4574-2020Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Turkish cities have undergone large-scale change through a process referred to as urban transformation, involving, notably, the demolition of inner-city low-income settlements. The official authorities and business circles have resorted to various forms of discourse to justify these projects, which have led to the deportation of a significant number of people to peripheral areas. The discourse of natural disasters', for example, suggests that urban transformation is necessary to protect people from some pending event. Probably the most effective application of this discourse has occurred in Izmir, where the risk posed by landslides' has played a critical role in the settlement demolitions conducted in the huge inner-city neighbourhood of Kadifekale. By examining the case of Kadifekale, this paper provide some insights into how natural disasters' serve as a discourse with which to legitimise the neoliberal logic entrenched in the urban transformation process in Turkey.Item Do Exports Explain Industrial Agglomeration and Regional Disparities in Turkey?(2014) Akkemik, K. Ali; Goksal, Koray; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5461-4759; J-6093-2014; JJF-7910-2023Along with an increasing integration with global goods and services markets, regional centres of industrial development have emerged in Turkey. Global linkages may play an important role in regional disparities in a developing country like Turkey through the determination of the locations of industries. This paper examines to what extent global linkages, operationalised by export performance, impact on agglomeration economies and regional disparities in industrial production and industrial employment in Turkey. To this end, using province-level industrial data, panel regressions are run to analyse the determinants of disparities and agglomeration in terms of industrial value added and employment by adding the size of exports as an explanatory variable. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Item A Model of A Heterodox Exchange Rate Based Stabilization(2015) Aytac, OzlemThis paper attempts to explain the ERBS syndrome in Turkey by appeal to weak credibility cum sticky prices. By developing a model specifically for the 2000-2001 heterodox ERBS program in Turkey, I also depart from the existing literature which has focused almost exclusively in Latin America. What I aimed in this model is to generate the macroeconomic dynamics observed after the implementation of the program in Turkey. In order to assess the model's quantitative performance; it is calibrated by using data restrictions mainly from the Turkish economy. In addition to replicate the general qualitative effects of a currency peg, the model can successfully account quantitatively for the responses of consumption and current account balance and real exchange rate observed in Turkey. The closeness of the predicted consumption boom in the model and the actual boom in Turkey is particularly remarkable: 10.08% predicted increase in total consumption spending vs. 9.6% actual. And 37.06% predicted increase in durables spending vs. 39.5% actual. Overall, results indicate that sticky price model can explain the ERBS syndrome in Turkey to a great extend under the assumption that disinflation program is perceived by the public as non-credible. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Item The Role of Big Five Personality on Predicting the Resilience: A Canonical Relation Analysis(2015) Cetin, Fatih; Yeloglu, Hakki Okan; Basim, H. Nejat; 0000-0002-2487-9553; ABD-9381-2021; J-8116-2015; L-1624-2017Resilience is an ability to bounce back from adversities, setbacks or difficulties in face of stressful life events. The main purpose of this study was to analyze the role of big five personality in predicting the resilience and to determine the most influent dimensions of resilience in this process. Data were gathered from 286 university students with using survey method. The instruments were Resilience Scale and Big Five Personality Scale. Results of the canonical correlation analysis showed that extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience are positively, and neuroticism is negatively related to the resilience. Furthermore, it was determined that perception of self, social resources and social competence sub-dimensions of the resilience, and extroversion and consciousness sub-dimensions of the personality distinguished in predicting the resilience and personality respectively. Ultimately all results proposed that big five personality explain significant variance in resilience structure. The results were discussed in the light of the literature.Item And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey(2014) Eligur, Banu; AFR-3489-2022Item Nation-State Building in Kyrgyzstan and Transition to the Parliamentary System(2014) Aydingun, Ismail; Aydingun, Aysegul; AAD-5945-2020This article explores the post-Soviet political transformations experienced in Kyrgyzstan and argues that there are structural reasons for the political instability, which places obstacles to nation and state building. The fragility of the political situation is explained with reference to the 1990 and 2010 Osh riots as well as to the popular revolts of 2005 and 2010. In addition, the political and legal reforms of the post-Soviet period are evaluated. Structural reasons for the political instability, the recent transition to parliamentary system and the future of parliamentary democracy are discussed in the light of domestic and global dynamics and the socio-political history of the country.Item Rethinking Globalization as Internationalization of Capital: Implications for Understanding State Restructuring(2015) Oguz, SebnemThe globalization and state debate of the last two decades has been dominated by progressive liberal and left-nationalist approaches. Progressive liberals, including social democrats and some Marxists, argue that not only economic, but also political processes have become globalized. In contrast, left-nationalists - with a similar ideological diversification - treat both economic and political processes as primarily national. What is problematic about both camps is the assumption of compatibility between the space of capital accumulation and the space of state action, whether at the global or national level. This makes it impossible to explain the contradictions of international accumulation as reflected within specific social formations, and to develop class-based political alternatives. There is, however, a third alternative: even when economic processes are internationalized, their administration remains primarily a national affair. This alternative can explain the contradictions of state restructuring within specific social formations without falling into the pitfalls of either abstract internationalism or nationalism.Item Social Media and the Kurdish Issue in Turkey: Hate Speech, Free Speech and Human Security(2015) Onbasi, Funda Gencoglu; 0000-0001-8211-8624; AAR-7704-2020Parallel to two intertwined processes of the politicization of ethnicity, religion and sexuality on the one hand, and the rise of the internet, on the other hand, hate speech has become one of the most topical issues of political debates. Academic interest on this topic has so far focused largely on the questions of (im)possibility of defining hate speech, on the hate speech/free speech dichotomy, and, thus on the possible ways of dealing with this big challenge of our times. This study tries to open a new window by resorting to the concept of human security. It argues that rival understandings of security (traditional or critical) lead to differences in perceptions of threats/harms which in turn lead to different conceptions of hate speech. This argument is illustrated through an analysis of the way the Kurdish issue in Turkey has been tackled in Eksi Sozluk, one of the most popular web sites in the country.Item What Have Health Care Reforms Achieved in Turkey? An Appraisal of the "Health Transformation Programme"(2015) Okem, Zeynep Guldem; Cakar, Mehmet; 26183890Poor health status indicators, low quality care, inequity in the access to health services and inefficiency due to fragmented health financing and provision have long been problems in Turkey's health system. To address these problems a radical reform process known as the Health Transformation Programme (HTP) was initiated in 2003. The health sector reforms in Turkey are considered to have been among the most successful of middle-income countries undergoing reform. Numerous articles have been published that review these reforms in terms of, variously, financial sustainability, efficiency, equity and quality. Evidence suggests that Turkey has indeed made significant progress, yet these achievements are uneven among its regions, and their long-term financial sustainability is unresolved due to structural problems in employment. As yet, there is no comprehensive evidence-based analysis of how far the stated reform objectives have been achieved. This article reviews the empirical evidence regarding the outcomes of the HTP during 10 years of its implementation. Strengthening the strategic purchasing function of the Social Security Institution (SSI) should be a priority. Overall performance can be improved by linking resource allocation to provider performance. More emphasis on prevention rather than treatment, with an effective referral chain, can also bring better outcomes, greater efficiency gains and contribute to sustainability. 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