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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 ...
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 ...