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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 ... -
Baked beats grilled: a calorie analysis of 18,000 menu items in fast food chain restaurants
Wansink, B.; Mukund, A.; Atakan, Şükriye Sinem (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2017)Fast food and chain restaurants often give the menu items descriptive names related to the production processes (e.g., baked, fried, grilled, glazed). Do these descriptions in a food’s name provide a useful indication of ... -
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 ... -
Battle of the brand fans: impact of brand attack and defense on social media(article)
Ilhan, B. E.; Kubler, Raoul Volker; Pauwels, K. H. (Elsevier, 2018-08)Fans of a brand attack fans of rival brands on social media. Given the nature of such rival brand fan attacks, managers are unsure about how much control they should exercise on brand-negative comments on their owned social ... -
Big and lean is beautiful: a conceptual framework for data-based learning in marketing management
Soyer, E.; Pauwels, K.; Seggie, Steven Head (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-09-19)While Big Data offer marketing managers information that is high in volume, variety, velocity, and veracity (the 4Vs), these features wouldn't necessarily improve their decision-making. Managers would still be vulnerable ... -
Bringing sustainability to the heart of a university through teaching, research and service
Gençtürk, Esra; Mengüç, Mustafa Pınar (EDP Sciences, 2018)In this short paper, we summarize our targeted efforts at Ozyegin University in Istanbul, Turkey for establishing a sustainable research, teaching and learning environment. The University is striving to have highest level ... -
Build-to-order meets global sourcing: planning challenge for the auto industry
Matoğlu, Melda Örmeci; Vande Vate, J. (Springer, 2011)Auto manufacturers today face many challenges: The industry is plagued with excess capacity that drives down prices, international competitors are seizing share at both ends of the market and consumers are well informed ... -
Building with bricks and mortar: the revenue impact of opening physical stores in a multichannel environment
Pauwels, Koen Hendrik; Neslin, S. A (Elsevier, 2015-06)A crucial decision firms face today is which channels they should make available to customers for transactions. We assess the revenue impact of adding bricks-and-mortar stores to a firm's already existing repertoire of ... -
Captive diffusions and their applications to order-preserving dynamics
Mengütürk, L. A.; Mengütürk, Murat Cahit (Royal Society Publishing, 2020-09-30)We propose a class of stochastic processes that we call captive diffusions, which evolve within measurable pairs of cadlag bounded functions that admit bounded right-derivatives at points where they are continuous. In full ... -
The case against active pension funds: evidence from the Turkish private pension system
Gökçen, U.; Yalçın, Atakan (Elsevier, 2015-06)Using data on private Turkish pension funds we show that most active managers are not able to provide performance beyond what could be achieved by passive indexing. The average fund beats its benchmark by only 26 basis ... -
Catching up or drifting apart: convergence of household and business credit in Europe
Bahadır, Berrak; Valev, N. (Elsevier, 2017)We provide evidence for convergence in the levels of household and business credit across European countries. The process is particularly strong for the transition countries that have a low initial level of private credit ... -
CEO overconfidence, reit investment activity and performance
Eichholtz, P.; Yönder, Erkan (Wiley, 2015)This is the first article to study the effects of overconfidence on trading activity and performance in real estate. The article looks at Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), as their investments and divestments can be ... -
Client-server versus peer-to-peer
Özener, Başak Altan; Sunay, Mehmet Oğuz (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, 2016)This study identifies optimal transmission mechanisms for a video streaming service in a peer-to-peer network structure under different payment mechanisms: pay as you watch and pay upfront. We calculate a uniform, feasible ... -
Communicating forecasts: the simplicity of simulated experience
Hogarth, R. M.; Soyer, Emre (Elsevier, 2015-08)It is unclear whether decision makers who receive forecasts expressed as probability distributions over outcomes understand the implications of this form of communication. We suggest a solution based on the fact that people ... -
A comparison of optimal policy rules prior to and during inflation targeting: empirical evidence from Bank of Canada
Eksi, O.; Kaya Eksi, N.; Özlale, Ümit (Taylor & Francis, 2017)We examine policy rules that are consistent with inflation targeting (IT) framework in a small macroeconomic model of the Canadian economy. We set up an optimal linear regulator problem and derive policy rules to compare ... -
Competitive implications of software open-sourcing
Asundi, J.; Carare, O.; Doğan, Kutsal (Elsevier, 2012-12)This paper is concerned with the economic trade-offs associated with open-sourcing, the business strategy of releasing free open-source versions of commercial software products. The effect of the release of open-source ... -
Composing offer sets to maximize expected payoffs
Atahan, Pelin; Johar, M.; Sarkar, S. (Digital Commons, 2016)Firms are increasingly using clickstream and transactional data to tailor product offerings to visitors at their site. Ecommerce websites have the opportunity, at each interaction, to offer multiple items (referred to as ... -
A concave security market line
De Giorgi, E. G.; Post, T.; Yalçın, Atakan (Elsevier, 2019-09)We provide theoretical and empirical arguments in favor of a diminishing marginal premium for market risk. In capital market equilibrium with binding portfolio restrictions, investors with different risk aversion levels ... -
The conceptual difference really matters: Hofstede vs GLOBE’s uncertainty avoidance and the risk-taking behavior of firms
Alipour, Ali (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-12-05)Purpose In spite of the common label, uncertainty avoidance (UA) across Hofstede and GLOBE models has been found to be negatively correlated and capture distinct concepts. Nevertheless, the empirical research focusing on ... -
Conceptualizing a research paradigm for multi-objective modelling in supply chain management
Oral, Muhittin; Kettani, O. (Wiley, 2015)The primary objective of this paper is to offer a particular research paradigm framework that takes into consideration ontological, epistemological, methodological and axiological assumptions for a more meaningful and ...
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