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General equilibrium evaluation of deregulation in energy sectors in China
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)
The central government in China has implemented ambitious energy policy reforms since 1978. An important pillar of these reforms is the deregulation in the energy markets which manifests itself in the formation of energy ...
Converse Tournaments
(Ege Univ Fac Economics & Admin Sciences, 2019)
This paper proposes two alternatives to Clark and Riis (1998b)'s sequential model of nested multiple-prize contests. First we consider winning prizes endogenously determined by exerted contest efforts. Second we extend the ...
Panel Data Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty from the Perspective of Developing Countries
(Elsevier Science, 2014)
The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and poverty at the macro-pathway in selected developing countries. The contribution to host countries from FDI can take several ...
An Applied Analysis for whether the Relation between Innovation and Foreign Direct Investment is Vicious for Turkey after the early 1980s
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2016)
The relation between innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) is investigated in this paper by using time series Vector Autoregression (VAR) method. The main research question of the paper is whether FDI contributes ...
The role of intangible assets in explaining the investment-profit puzzle
(Oxford Univ Press, 2019)
Starting around the early 2000s, and especially after the 2008 crisis, the rate of capital accumulation for US nonfinancial corporations has slowed down despite relatively high profitability; indicating a weakening of the ...
Sabotage in team contests
(Springer, 2019)
In the contest literature sabotage is defined as a deliberate and costly activity that damages the opponent's likelihood of winning the contest. Most of the existing results suggest that anticipating a possible sabotage ...
Gender and the Wage Gap in Turkish Academia
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)
Turkey maintains one of the lowest female labour force participation rates in Europe but also boasts an above average number of female professors. Turkey is well above the European average (15 per cent) with approximately ...
A mechanism design approach to allocating central government funds among regional development agencies
(Springer, 2014)
To allocate central government funds among regional development agencies we look for mechanisms that satisfy three important criteria: efficiency (individual and coalitional) strategy proofness (a.k.a. dominant strategy ...
States Banks and Crisis: Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico and Turkey
(M.E Sharpe Inc., 2013)
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Detecting structural changes using wavelets
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2015)
We propose a powerful wavelet method to identify structural breaks in the mean of a process. If there is a structural change in the mean the sum of the squared scaling coefficients absorbs more variation leading to unequal ...