• 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 ...

• On the numerical schemes for Langevin-type equations 

  Akat, Muzaffer; Kosker, R.; Sirma, A. (Karaganda University, 2020)

  In this paper, a numerical approach is proposed based on the variation-of-constants formula for the numerical discretization Langevin-type equations. Linear and non-linear cases are treated separately. The proofs of ...

• Managing clinic variability with same-day scheduling, intervention for no-shows, and seasonal capacity adjustments 

  Yang, K. K.; Çayırlı, Tuğba (Taylor & Francis, 2020-01-02)

  This study investigates demand and capacity strategies for managing clinic variability. These include (i) same-day scheduling to control random walk-ins, (ii) no-show intervention, where the clinic calls advance-booked ...

• Anticipating the financial crisis: evidence from insider trading in banks 

  Akın, Özlem; Marín, J. M.; Peydro, J. - L. (Oxford University Press, 2020-04)

  Banking crises are recurrent phenomena, often induced by excessive bank risk-taking, which may be due to behavioural reasons (over-optimistic banks neglecting risks) and to conflicts of interest between bank shareholders/managers ...

• 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 ...

• Stochastic sequential reduction of commutative Hamiltonians 

  Mengütürk, L. A.; Mengütürk, Murat Cahit (AIP Publishing, 2020-10-01)

  This paper introduces a class of stochastic processes constructed by conditioning cadlag processes to take a predetermined set of marginal laws at fixed points in time. We collectively refer to the elements of this class ...

• Relational governance, organizational unlearning and learning: implications for performance 

  Yeniaras, Volkan; Di Benedetto, A.; Kaya, I.; Dayan, M. (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020-10)

  Purpose Drawing on the literature on dynamic skills, this study builds upon and empirically tests a conceptual model that connects business and political ties, organizational unlearning, organizational learning and firm ...

• 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 ...

• Governance implications of modularity in sourcing relationships 

  Harmancioglu, N.; Wuyts, S.; Şabahat, Peren Özturan (Springer Nature, 2020)

  Modularization, an important trend in innovation markets, allows for recombination of product components into multiple end-product configurations. Although modularization has consequences for how firms manage their ...

• The role of real estate and gold as inflation hedges: the Islamic influence 

  Gulseven, O.; Ekici, Özgün (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020)

  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 ...

• Diffusion of pure and hybrid forms of a practice: Language of ınstruction in Turkish universities, 1983–2014 

  Topaler, B.; Üsdiken, Behlül (Wiley, 2020-12)

  It is well recognized in the literature that practice variation is an integral part of diffusion processes. What remains less explored is the emergence of distinct forms of a novel practice and the interdependencies in ...

• Algorithmic pairs trading with expert inputs, a fuzzy statistical arbitrage framework 

  Bayram, M.; Akat, Muzaffer; Bulkan, S. (IOS Press, 2020)

  Pairs trading is a widespread market-neutral trading strategy aiming to utilize the relationship between pairs of financial instruments in efficient markets, where predictability of separate asset movements is theoretically ...

• 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 ...

• The effects of social ties on innovation behavior and new product performance in emerging economies: evidence from Turkey 

  Yeniaras, Volkan; Kaya, İ.; Ashill, N. (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020-04-08)

  Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical and empirical understanding of how social ties affect innovation behavior and new product performance in Turkey, which is an emerging economy where high levels ...

• A threat to loyalty: Fear of missing out (FOMO) leads to reluctance to repeat current experiences 

  Şanlı, Ceren Hayran; Anık, L.; Gurhan-Canli, Z. (Public Library of Science, 2020-04-30)

  We investigate a popular but underresearched concept, the fear of missing out (FOMO), on desirable experiences of which an individual is aware, but in which they do not partake. Through laboratory and field studies, we ...

• Mixed effects of business and political ties in planning flexibility: Insights from Turkey 

  Yeniaras, Volkan; Kaya, İ.; Dayan, M. (Elsevier, 2020-05)

  Despite increasing attention to the role of business and political ties in emerging economies, few studies have explicitly investigated their relations to dynamic capabilities outside of the East-Asian context. Following ...

• 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 ...

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