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Citation - Scopus: 65
The Cittaslow Philosophy in the Context of Sustainable Tourism Development; The Case of Turkey
(Tourism Management, 2014) Ekinci, Mehmet Behzat
This paper studies the Cittaslow (slow city) philosophy in terms of sustainable tourism development (STD); and in this context research was undertaken for the case of Turkey. Cittaslow, a movement rooted in STD philosophy, aims to encourage the development of tranquil cities already known for their historical, natural, socio-cultural, and touristic features and the intention is to offer a significant contribution to systematic and rapid implementation of STD on a global scale. This paper, which makes a particular study of the practice of STD in Turkey, offers new candidate cities (Uzungöl, Hasankeyf, Safranbolu, Ürgüp, and İznik) and, thus, endeavours to contribute to the spread of STD throughout the whole country. In this study, above-named cities were found to be particularly good candidates for Cittaslow membership. In addition to these: Tatvan, Midyat, Alanya, and Fethiye were also found to be potential Cittaslows even though they fail to meet the population criterion.
Citation - WoS: 12
Citation - Scopus: 13
Construction labour, subcontracting and masculinity: “construction is a man’s job”
(Construction Management and Economics, 2020) Çınar, Sidar
This study examines how construction workers construct their male identity on the basis of their job requirements. A qualitative field research comprising in-depth interviews was conducted with 32 construction workers in Diyarbakır to examine subcontracting in Turkey’s construction sector. The findings show that by defining construction labour in terms of physical capacity, an outcome of the labour conditions shaped by the practice of subcontracting, construction work have become naturalised as a man’s job. The findings also illustrate how construction produces different masculinities that intersect with the understanding of working class shaped by the role of men being the head of the family rather than a single notion of manhood shaped by physical working conditions. Nevertheless, the male worker culture that feeds off different masculinities still retains the power to dominate and exclude women as workers from the construction site, e.g. through means of sexual harassment.
Citation - WoS: 62
Citation - Scopus: 67
Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Co2 With the Discrimination of Renewable and Non Renewable Energy Consumption
(Pergamon Elsevier Science Ltd, 2024) Aslan, Alper; Ilhan, Ozturk; Usama, Al-Mulali; Savranlar, Buket; Polat, Melike Atay; Metawa, Noura; Raboshuk, Alina
The link between policy -related economic uncertainty and the environment has a new and developing literature. In this study, the effects of economic policy uncertainty, energy consumption and economic growth on pollution in G7 countries are investigated by using methods of moments quantile regression over the perod of 1995-2018. According to the long run coefficient estimation results, in the model in which the fossil fuel energy consumption variable is used as an energy consumption indicator, economic policy uncertainty has a reducing effect on emissions at all quantile levels. Although this negative effect becomes more pronounced as the quantile level increases, it is statistically insignificant at the 0.90 quantile level. In the model that includes fossil fuel energy consumption, the coefficient of economic policy uncertainty variable is negative in all quantiles and is significant only at the 0.30 and 0.40 quantile levels. In addition, while a U-shaped relationship is detected between economic growth and emissions in these countries, the destroying effect of fossil fuel energy on environmental quality is confirmed in all quantiles. Thus, it should be a priority to support the developments in growth performance with environmental regulations, encourage energy -saving and energy -efficient practices as well as to establish the legal infrastructure.
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Citation - Scopus: 9
The impact of technological innovations on the environmental Kuznets curve: evidence from EU-27
(Springer, 2024) Ercan, Hamdi; Savranlar, Buket; Atay Polat, Melike; Yiğit, Yüksel; Aslan, Alper
The EKC hypothesis expresses the inverted U-shaped relationship between per capita income and environmental quality. In the literature, the role of technological innovations and income inequality on pollution is a relatively recent discussion in the studies testing the EKC hypothesis. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of technological innovations, income inequality, exports, urbanization, and growth on CO2 emissions in EU-27. In addition, while investigating this relationship, exports and urbanization are also considered and panel vector autoregression (PVAR) analysis is applied for the 2005-2019 period. According to the coefficient estimation results, while income inequality, exports, and urbanization increase pollution, technological innovations contribute to environmental quality. Also, the results demonstrated that the EKC hypothesis is invalid in these countries and there is a U-shaped relationship between growth and emissions. The causality test results revealed the presence of unidirectional causality running from all explanatory variables to CO2 emissions. Moreover, impulse-response graphs demonstrated that the reply of emissions to the shocks in the explanatory variables is similar to the long-run coefficient results. In conclusion, all available empirical evidence for this relationship highlights that income inequality and technological innovations should be considered in policy-making processes to ensure environmental quality in EU-27 countries.
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Citation - Scopus: 2
Is electronic finance sustainable or not in the European Union? New insights from the panel vector autoregression approach
(SpringerLink, 2022) Altınöz, Buket; Aslan, Alper; Atay Polat, Melike; Topalgokcelli, Emre; Esmeray, Murat
Abstract Today, as a result of the developments and widespread use of information and communication technologies, the weight of online shopping in the economy has increased. The environmental impacts of this new order, which is an important part of electronic fnance, are discussed. In this study, the efect of electronic fnance, economic growth, renewable energy consumption, and urbanization on emissions in EU member countries is examined using the panel vector autoregression (PVAR) approach for the period from 2005 to 2018. The main results suggest that e-fnance has a positive and statistically signifcant efect on CO2 emissions. However, the renewable energy consumption-increasing efect of e-fnance is greater than its emission-reducing efect. Moreover, renewable energy consumption has a statistically insignifcant efect on emissions. Therefore, the contribution of e-fnance on environmental quality weakens. The requirement for EU member countries to prioritize the use of environmentally friendly energy to beneft from the environmental contribution of e-fnance in the most optimal way is stated as the main policy implication of this study
Misspecified Expectations in an Open Economy
(Elsevier, 2024) Yilmaz, Yusuf Omur; Cicekci, Cumhur
In the past two decades, Turkey has experienced multiple changes in its monetary policy regime.To analyse how these policy changes affect the behaviours of households and firms, somebehavioural parameters are incorporated into a small open economy New Keynesian model. Ourapproach consists of four phases. First, we assess the impacts of the behavioural parameters onthe model and find that higher values of the parameters increase the effects of expectationson the model. Second, for the period between 2006 and 2021, the model is estimated for theTurkish economy and the findings show that both households and firms are more forward-looking in their decision making. Moreover, the current variables have a weak effect on thenominal interest rate, and the inertial nominal interest rate has a strong effect on it. Third, weanalyse the evolution of the model parameters over the period and find that the behaviouralparameters tend to increase, while the monetary policy becomes more inertial. Finally, weconclude that the Central Bank should follow Domestic Inflation-based Taylor rule to minimise welfare loss
Citation - WoS: 15
Citation - Scopus: 14
Oligopoly and Price Transmission in Turkey's Fluid Milk Market
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2013) Tekgüç, Hasan
Farmers and consumers suspect that processing firms abuse their power in the milk marketing chain by engaging in price fixing behavior. The author employs threshold autoregressive and moment threshold autoregressive tests, and contrary to expectations, finds evidence for a downward trend in wholesale milk price without a corresponding decline in farm-gate prices. The downward trend coincides with increased competition in the dairy industry and with the growing market share of the formal sector at the expense of the informal sector. Major dairy processing firms expand their market share and yet continue to enjoy healthy profits thanks to increasing returns due to economies of scale in their processing and distribution operations in a growing market. (C) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Citation - Scopus: 9
Separability between own food production and consumption in Turkey
(SPRINGER, 2012) Tekgüç, Hasan
Complete markets imply the separation of food production and consumption decisions such that they can be modeled to occur sequentially and can be studied independently. Separation is very often assumed implicitly in empirical studies of food demand. If there is such separation, then food sourced within the household should not have any influence upon the budget share of each food group. Using this insight, this paper first develops a procedure to test for the separation of household food production and consumption decisions. Furthermore, it incorporates the testing procedure into the Almost Ideal Demand Systems model and utilizes survey data from 2003 for Turkey for empirical testing. It concludes that the separation assumption is unwarranted for Turkey. Next, it investigates the extent of bias in elasticity estimates when the separation assumption is unwarranted. It concludes that ignoring the nonseparation of consumption and production decisions in rural areas leads to significant overestimation of food expenditure elasticity for dairy products and eggs and own-price elasticity for bread and cereals.

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