• Price and quality decisions of a service provider under heterogeneous demand 

  Özener, Başak Altan; Atahan, Pelin (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, 2019)

  A monopolist service provider's quality and price decisions are analyzed in a vertically differentiated market where customers demand different quantities of a service. We find that depending on the relative sizes of the ...

• 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 ...

• A game theoretical approach for improving the operational efficiencies of less-than-truckload carriers through load exchanges 

  Özener, Başak Altan; Özener, Okan Örsan (Springer, 2021-09)

  Less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation offers fast, flexible and relatively low-cost transportation services to shippers. In order to cope with the effects of economic recessions, the LTL industry implemented ideas such ...

• Welfare and research and development incentive effects of uniform and differential pricing schemes 

  Gnecco, G.; Pammolli, F.; Tuncay Alpanda, Berna (Springer, 2021)

  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 ...

• The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on native population mortality 

  Aygün, A.; Kırdar, M. G.; Tuncay Alpanda, Berna (Elsevier, 2021)

  As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health system was utterly broken. Several studies report that Syrian refugees faced numerous diseases during their ...

• 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 ...

• Dynamic durable goods monopoly and market power 

  Özener, Başak Altan (MDPI, 2020-06)

  We analyze a vertically differentiated market for an imperfectly durable good served by a monopolist in an infinite-horizon, discrete-time game. Our goal is to identify the Markov perfect stationary equilibria where the ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 

  Caskurlu, B.; Ekici, Özgür; Kizilkaya, F. E.

  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 ...

• Bank regulation under fire sale externalities 

  Kara, G. I.; Özsoy, Satı Mehmet (Oxford University Press, 2020-06)

  We examine the optimal design of and interaction between capital and liquidity regulations. Banks, not internalizing fire sale externalities, overinvest in risky assets and underinvest in liquid assets in the competitive ...

• Firm boundaries, incentives, and fund performance: Evidence from a private pension fund system 

  Gölçen, Umut; Özsoy, Satı Mehmet; Yalçın, Atakan (Elsevier, 2020-06)

  The private pension fund system in Turkey presents a unique institutional structure where bank holding companies can own both private pension companies and asset management firms. More often than not, pension companies ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Independent vs. coordinated fundraising: Understanding the role of information 

  Eckel, C.; Güney, Begüm; Uler, N. (Elsevier, 2020-08)

  We use "real donation" laboratory experiments to compare independent fundraising, where donation requests from different charities arrive sequentially to potential donors, with coordinated fundraising, where donation ...

• 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 ...

• Dynamic moral hazard with sequential tasks 

  Özener, Başak Altan (Elsevier, 2019-10)

  We study a sequential agency problem with hidden actions in an infinite horizon dynamic setting. The principal has a project that requires completion of two sequential tasks where the predecessor must be finished before ...

• The asymmetric impact of oil prices, interest rates and oil price uncertainty on unemployment in the US 

  Kocaaslan, B.; Soytas, U.; Soytaş, Mehmet Ali (Elsevier, 2020-02-01)

  In this study, we investigate the presence of asymmetric interactions between oil prices, oil price uncertainty, interest rates, and unemployment in a cointegration framework. Utilizing the nonlinear auto-regressive ...

• Domine edilen statükonun referans etkisi 

  Güney, Begüm (Okan Üniversitesi, 2018-05)

  Statüko, bir kişinin şu anki konumunu temsil eder. Çalışılan iş ve yaşanılan şehir statüko için verilebilecek örnekler arasındadır. Bir statüko, kendi seçilmese bile, diğer alternatifler arasındaki göreceli sıralamayı ...

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