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    Is trade against or in favor of women? empirical evidence from manufacturing sector in Turkey
    (Marmara Üniversitesi (MÜ) Yayınları, 2021) İleri, Şerife Genç; Department of Business Administration; Ulu, Mehmet Fatih; Faculty Member; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 283267
    This paper studies the effect of trade openness on relative wage earnings of female workers in Turkey’smanufacturing sector. We compute the export intensity of a sector by dividing the export value toproduction value as our measure of trade openness. Using Structure of Earnings Survey data for 2010 and 2014, we estimate the impact of export intensity on the gender wage gap. Our results indicate that a onepercentage point increase in the export intensity of a sector leads to a 0.17 percent higher gender wage gap. We further investigate the trade-gender wage gap link by grouping the sectors into four quartiles accordingto their export intensities. Our estimations for each quartile reinforce our finding of a negative impact oftrade on the male-female wage inequality. Lastly, we analyze how the wage gap between men and womenchange according to skill levels. In line with the previous findings in the literature, we estimate a higherwage discrimination against high-skill women. / Bu çalışma, ticaretin Türkiye imalat sektöründeki kadın işçilerin göreli ücret kazançları üzerindeki etkisini incelemektedir. Çalışmada kullanılan ticarete açıklık değeri, sektörlerin ihracat değerini üretim değerine bölerek hesapladığımız sektör ihracat yoğunluğudur. 2010 ve 2014 için Kazanç Yapısı Araştırması verilerini kullanarak, ihracat yoğunluğunun cinsiyetler arası ücret farkı üzerindeki etkisini ölçmekteyiz. Sonuçlarımız, bir sektörün ihracat yoğunluğundaki bir yüzde puanlık artışın kadın ve erkekler arasındaki ücret farkını yüzde 0,17 oranında arttırdığına işaret etmektedir. Sektörleri ihracat yoğunluklarına göre dörtte birlik gruplara ayırarak yaptığımız analiz de benzer sonuçlar vermektedir. Erkekler ve kadınlar arasındaki ücret farkının eğitim seviyelerine göre nasıl değiştiğine baktığımızda ise, literatürdeki önceki bulgulara paralel olarak, yüksek eğitimli kadınların daha fazla ücret ayrımcılığına maruz kaldığı sonucuna ulaşmaktayız.
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    International spillovers and local credit cycles
    (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2022) di Giovanni, Julian; Kalemli-Özcan, Şebnem; Başkaya, Yusuf Soner; Department of Business Administration; Ulu, Mehmet Fatih; Faculty Member; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 283267
    This article studies the transmission of the Global Financial Cycle (GFC) to domestic credit market conditions in a large emerging market, Turkey, over 2003-13. We use administrative data covering the universe of corporate credit transactions matched to bank balance sheets to document four facts: (1) an easing in global financial conditions leads to lower borrowing costs and an increase in local lending; (2) domestic banks more exposed to international capital markets transmit the GFC locally; (3) the fall in local currency borrowing costs is larger than foreign currency borrowing costs due to the co-movement of the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) premium with the GFC over time; (4) data on posted collateral for new loan issuances show that collateral constraints do not relax during the boom phase of the GFC.
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    Do physiological and spiritual factors affect economic decisions?
    (Wiley, 2021) Özbaş, Oğuzhan; Silva, Rui C.; Department of Business Administration; Demiroğlu, Cem; Ulu, Mehmet Fatih; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 18073; N/A
    We examine the effects of physiology and spiritual sentiment on economic decision-making in the context of Ramadan, an entire lunar month of daily fasting and increased spiritual reflection in the Muslim faith. Using an administrative data set of bank loans originated in Turkey during 2003 to 2013, we find that small business loans originated during Ramadan are 15% more likely to default within two years of origination. Loans originated in hot Ramadans, when adverse physiological effects of fasting are greatest, and those approved by the busiest bank branches perform worse. Despite their worse performance, Ramadan loans have lower credit spreads.
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    Effects of policy reforms on firm innovation
    (Springer Nature, 2022) Şeker, Murat; Department of Business Administration; Ulu, Mehmet Fatih; Faculty Member; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 283267
    The regulatory environment in a country is an important factor that affects firm performance. This study investigates the impact of a particular regulation-license requirements for certain firm activities-on the innovation performance of Indian firms in the 1990s. Using a unique firm-level panel data set, it shows that the removal of license requirements led to an eight percentage points higher innovation rate within two years following the reform. We measure innovation as the introduction of new product varieties that had not been produced by the firm before. It takes a longer time for firms to innovate in industries in which they were not producing before. The findings of this study are also robust to the inclusion of controls for other policy reforms that occurred during the period of licensing reform. They also persist in tests with different subgroups of firms and with the use of alternative estimation methods.