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Islamic capitalism and the rise of religious-conservative big business
Fabbe, K.; Özlale, Ümit; Balıkçıoğlu, E. M. (Taylor & Francis, 2020)This chapter argues that the rise of “Islamic capitalism” and the country’s so-called “conservative bourgeoisie” owes much to the pragmatism and agility of Islamic actors who are quick to seize upon new economic and political ... -
On efficient computation of equilibrium under social coalition structures
In game-theoretic settings the key notion of analysis is an equilibrium, which is a profile of agent strategies such that no viable coalition of agents can improve upon their coalitional welfare by jointly changing their ... -
Optimal peer-to-peer network for streaming multimedia broadcast
Özener, Başak Altan; Sunay, M. O. (Elsevier, 2020-11)This study identifies optimal transmission mechanisms for a streaming video service in a peer-to-peer network structure as a function of the number of active peers, a common service value, a common discount factor, and ... -
Performance of inflation targeting in retrospect
Kose, N.; Yalcin, Y.; Yücel, Mustafa Eray (Springer International Publishing, 2016)Both inflation and inflation expectations declined considerably in the inflation targeting countries during the past two decades. The questions of whether this decline has actually been an outcome of inflation targeting ... -
A picture's worth a thousand numbers
Hogarth, R. M.; Soyer, Emre (Harvard Business Publishing, 2013-06)The article examines research on the subject of humans' difficulty in understanding probability and the value of graphic representations in improving that understanding. Topics include research by "Harvard Business Review" ... -
The productivity gap: Monetary policy, the subprime boom, and the post-2001 productivity surge
Selgin, G.; Beckworth, D.; Bahadır, Berrak (Elsevier, 2015-03)It is widely believed that, in the wake of the dot.com crash, the Fed kept the federal funds target rate too low for too long, inadvertently contributing to the subprime boom. We attribute this and other Fed departures ... -
Random mechanisms for house allocation with existing tenants
Ekici, Özgün (Elsevier, 2020-08)We study the house allocation problem with existing tenants: n houses (stand for "indivisible objects") are to be allocated to n agents; each agent needs exactly one house and has strict preferences; k houses are initially ... -
Reclaim-proof allocation of indivisible objects
Ekici, Özgün (Elsevier, 2013-09)We study desirability axioms imposed on allocations in indivisible object allocation problems. The existing axioms in the literature are various conditions of robustness to blocking coalitions with respect to agentsʼ ex ... -
The reset inflation puzzle and the heterogeneity in price stickiness
Kara, Engin (Elsevier, 2015-11)New Keynesian models have been criticised on the grounds that they require implausibly large price shocks to explain inflation. Bils et al. (2012) show that, while these shocks are needed to reduce the excessive inflation ... -
The role of real estate and gold as inflation hedges: the Islamic influence
Gulseven, O.; Ekici, Özgün (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021-04-06)Purpose This paper aims to understand how aversion to interest income in Islam may influence the demand for real estate and gold when inflation is rampant. Design/methodology/approach According to Markowitz's ... -
Role of strategic interactions in corporate sustainability decisions: an empirical investigation
Soytaş, Mehmet Ali; Uşar, Damla Durak (Turkish Economic Association, 2017-01-01)There is a large amount of empirical literature on the relationship between corporate sustainability and corporate financial performance. However, the literature considers company-specific aspects affecting the link but ... -
Sustainable development from millennium 2015 to sustainable development goals 2030
Halisçelik, E.; Soytaş, Mehmet Ali (Wiley, 2019-07)In modern economies, the advancement of well‐being of the citizens should be in an inclusive and sustainable way. In this respect, the sustainable welfare targets should exclusively include three main pillars: economic ... -
A theory of iterative choice in lists
Güney, Begüm (Elsevier, 2014-08)In a list, alternatives appear according to an order and the decision maker follows this order to evaluate alternatives. He records the first alternative as the initial survivor and then at every stage, he compares the ... -
The Turkish appetite for gold: An Islamic explanation
Gülseven, O.; Ekici, Özgün (Elsevier, 2016-06)A significant constituent of household wealth in Turkey is gold. Families accumulate gold especially on a variety of cultural occasions such as female-only gold days, circumcision feasts, and engagement and wedding ceremonies. ... -
Unemployment flows, participation, and the natural rate of unemployment: Evidence from Turkey
Şengül, Gönül; Tasci, M. (Elsevier, 2020-06)We use a parsimonious unobserved components model with flow rates to estimate a time-varying unemployment rate trend for Turkey. Our approach is grounded in the modern theory of labor market search. This trend estimate ... -
Welfare and research and development incentive effects of uniform and differential pricing schemes
Gnecco, G.; Pammolli, F.; Tuncay Alpanda, Berna (Springer, 2021-09-22)This paper is about the application of optimization methods to the analysis of three pricing schemes adopted by one manufacturer in a two-country model of production and trade. The analysis focuses on pricing schemes—one ... -
Will a fat tax work?
Khan, Romana; Misra, K. (Wiley, 2016-01)Of the many proposals to reverse the obesity epidemic, the most contentious is the use of price-based interventions such as the fat tax. Previous investigations of the efficacy of such initiatives in altering consumption ...
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