Dilek Şahin

TARIMSAL GIDA ÜRÜNLERİNDE KARŞILAŞTIRMALI ÜSTÜNLÜĞÜN ÖLÇÜMÜ: TÜRKİYE ÖRNEĞİ

The concept of competitiveness has become more important in globalized world. Competitiveness shows a country’s share in world trade of goods and services. Competitiveness is divided into three as company, industry and country levels. It has been investigated price and non-price factors as determinants of competitiveness. The main object of this study is to examine the competitiveness of the agricultural food products in Turkey over 2000-2014. Revealed Comparative Advantage Index, Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage Index and Trade Balanca Index is used in this study. Furhermore we create the product mapping of the sectors which are analyzed in the study. As a result, it was found to be low competitiveness in agricultural food products.

TEKSTİL VE HAZIR GİYİM SEKTÖRÜNDE YATAY VE DİKEY ENDÜSTRİ-İÇİ TİCARETİN ÖLÇÜMÜ:

Textile and apparel industry is one of the world’s oldest industries. This sector has played an important role in the economic development process of developing countries. The liberalization of world trade and economic integrations that countries have increased their level of intra-trade. Intra-industry trade is made of both imports and exports belong to the same industrial goods. Intra-industry trade is divided into horizontal and vertical intra-industry trade. Horizontal and vertical intraindustry trade concept is based on product differentiation. The aim of this study is to determine intra industry trade level of Turkey and BRIC countries for the period 2000-2014. Grubel-Lloyd index and Abd-el Rahman’s unit value method are used in this study and textile and apparel industry were analyzed. İn this study, it was observed that Turkey and the BRIC countries to do vertical intra-industry trade in the textile sector.

İkiz Açık Hipotezinin Geçerliliği: Türkiye Örneği (1995-2013)

Twin deficit hypothesis is a phenomen came up with there is a relation between budget deficit and current account deficit. This study aim to the relationship between the budget deficit and the current account deficit by using the data period 1995: 1-2013: 1 in Turkey. The result of VAR analysis show that budget deficit in Turkey does not cause current account deficits so it was concluded that the twin deficits hypothesis is not valid