The Turkish Economy (eBook, ePUB)

The Real Economy, Corporate Governance and Reform
Redaktion: Altug, Sumru G.; Filiztekin, Alpay

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Including contributions from noted international scholars, this collection of papers provides a strong theoretical and empirical underpinning for the discussion of major public policy issues facing Turkey today. Matters addressed include:

• determinants of growth and productivity
• education and human capital accumulation
• income inequality
• corporate control and government
• performance of the government sector
• impact of major public policy issues on the future growth prospects of the Turkish economy.

This volume relates the impact of major public policy issues on the future growth prospects of the Turkish economy. At a time when Turkey is currently attempting to gain membership to the European Union, this pertinent reference questions whether the country's economy is in fact ready for EU accession and membership.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134213603
• Artikelnr.: 39263726

Autorenporträt

Sumru Altu? is professor at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics at Koç university in Istanbul. Her fields of interest include business cycles, investment, productivity and growth, intertemporal models of consumption and labour supply, and financial markets. Her previous publications include Dynamic Choice and Asset Markets (Academic Press, 1994) with Pamela Labadie, and Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis: Theory and Policy in General Equilibrium (Cambridge University Press, 2003) with Jagjit Chadha and Charles Nolan. Alpay Filiztekin is an Associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University in Istanbul. His fields of research include growth theory, regional economics, productivity dynamics and real costs of inflation.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors List of Tables and Figures Preface Part 1: The Real Economy
1. Productivity and Growth, 1923-2003 2. Income and Consumption Inequality
for Turkey: What Role Does Education Play? 3. Female Labour Supply in
Turkey 4. A Disaggregated Analysis of Price Dynamics Part 2: The Corporate
Sector 5. Capital Structure Decisions of Turkish Firms 6. Firm-level
Profitability, Liquidity, and Investment 7. Ownership Concentration and
Corporate Performance of Turkish Companies Part 3: The Government Sector
and Reform 8. Privatization: What has been achieved? 9. The Political
Economy of Pension Reform 10. The Turkish Banking Sector: A Rough Ride From
Crisis to Maturation Bibliography Index