Browsing by Author "Ekici, Özgün"

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Corporate sustainability interactions and corporate financial performance

Uşar, Damla Durak (2017-11)

There is a large amount of empirical literature focused on the relationship between corporate sustainability and corporate financial performance. The literature considers firm specific aspects affecting the link but omits ...
An equilibrium analysis of the probabilistic serial mechanism

Ekici, Özgün; Kesten, O. (Springer Science+Business Media, 2016-08)

The prominent mechanism of the recent literature in the assignment problem is the probabilistic serial (PS). Under PS, the truthful (preference) proÖle always constitutes an ordinal Nash Equilibrium, inducing a random ...
Essays in macro-finance

Usta, Ahmet (2019-12-26)

This dissertation includes three essays within macro-finance literature ranging from international macroeconomics, to labor and housing market dynamics. While the focus of first essay is more on international, particular ...
On existence of equilibrium under social coalition structures

Caskurlu, B.; Ekici, Özgün; Kizilkaya, F. E. (Springer, 2020)

In a strategic form game, a strategy profile is an equilibrium if no viable coalition of agents benefits (in the Pareto sense) from jointly changing their strategies. Weaker or stronger equilibrium notions can be defined ...
On singleton congestion games with resilience against collusion

Caskurlu, B.; Ekici, Özgün; Kızılkaya, F. E. (Springer, 2021)

We study the subclass of singleton congestion games in which there are identical resources with increasing cost functions. In this domain, we prove that there always exists an outcome that is resilient to weakly-improving ...
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 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 ...
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. ...