The Best Thesis Award, organized by the Department of Economics for the 2025-2026 Academic Year, has been awarded to our student Berfin Duru YAŞAR for her thesis entitled "Determinanten der Immobilienpreise in der Türkei: Eine Zeitreihenanalyse" (Determinants of Real Estate Prices in Türkiye: A Time Series Analysis).
The article titled “Stick and Stay, Make it Pay? Time Preferences and Marginal (Dis)Utility of Relative Concerns,” co-authored by Research Assistant Nur Banu Kartal and Prof. Dr. Alpaslan Akay, has been published in Social Indicators Research.
An article by our faculty member, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erdem Kılıç, titled “Institutional and macroeconomic determinants of defense spending: evidence from a global panel,” has been published in Applied Economics, a prestigious economics journal indexed in SSCI.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Guido Neidhöfer, a faculty member at Turkish-German University, visited the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub together with students. During the visit, UNDP's work was presented in detail. International opportunities such as the United Nations Volunteers programme were discussed, and a range of topics including the Human Development Report were examined in depth.
The study, titled “The Endogeneity of Money Supply in Developing Economies,” challenges the conventional view that money supply in developing countries is exogenously controlled by central banks and demonstrates that it is largely determined by bank lending. The study suggests that monetary policy should focus on credit conditions and financial structures rather than targeting monetary aggregates.
Assoc. Prof. Erdem Kılıç, a faculty member of our department, delivered a presentation titled “Financial Crises and International Contagion Mechanisms” at Istanbul Gelişim University on March 6, 2026, as part of the Financial Crises course.
Research Assistant Nur Banu Kartal from the Department of Economics at our Faculty has been awarded the title of Doctor (PhD) with her dissertation entitled “Essays on Behavioral Economics: Non-Cognitive Skills, Relative and Environmental Concerns” The dissertation was prepared within the English Economics PhD program of the Institute of Social Sciences at Yıldız Technical University, under the su…
