Buket Savranlar

• PhD in Economics
• Assistant Professor at Nisantasi University

Research Originality: Nuclear power plant installation activities, which have gained momentum since the 1970s, have made nuclear energy widespread. The US ranks first in the world in nuclear energy use. This article contributes to the existing literature on environmental economics by incorporating environmental technologies and globalization into i...

This study intends to analyze the influence of environmental taxes on pollution in EU-27 nations. Furthermore, energy from renewable sources consumption and urbanization are employed to clarify CO2 emissions in this study that tests the EKC hypothesis. According to the findings, an increase in environmental taxes reduces CO2 emissions by 0.14%. Als...

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 technologi...

In this study, the impact of international tourist arrivals on CO2 emissions caused by transportation is investigated using the quantile regression via method of moments (MMQR) approach with data for the period 1995–2019 from selected Mediterranean countries. Moreover, testing of tourism-induced environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is inclu...

This study aims to analyze the effect of urban population and economic globalization on air quality in Turkey for the period 1970–2017, including GDP and electricity consumption as control variables. This paper is the first attempt to apply the dynamic autoregressive-distributed lag (DARDL) approach to explore the association between carbon emissio...

In this study, the interrelationships between global climate change and EU countries’ GDP, investments, R&D expenditures, innovations, and labor productivity indicators are discussed. Global temperature anomalies are adopted as an indicator of climate change and the relationsgip estimated with the panel vector autoregreesion (PVAR) approach for the...

This paper aims to determine the effect of agriculture sector development on CO2 emissions in 10 big emerging market economies. This relationship is tested for the first time for emerging economies by using the panel quantile regression approach. The results suggest that agricultural value-added mitigate emissions in lower, middle-lower, and upper...

This paper aims to determine the effect of agriculture sectordevelopment on CO2 emissions in 10 big emerging marketeconomies. This relationship is tested for the first time for emergingeconomies by using the panel quantile regression approach. Theresults suggest that agricultural value-added mitigate emissionsin lower, middle-lower, and upper quant...

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 finance, are discussed. In this study, the effect of electronic finance, economic growth, renewable...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the nexus among information and communication technologies (ICT), total factor productivity (TFP), and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the top 10 emerging market economies for the period from 1995 to 2014 using the panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) approach. Analysis results suggest that the internet usage...

This paper analyzed the relationship between environmental performance and tourism sector development in Mediterranean countries for the period from 2000 to 2014. For this purpose, it is adopted PM2.5 exposure as a proxy of environmental performance indicator. Economic growth, energy consumption, industrial value-added and urbanization are included...

Every year millions of Muslims go to Saudi Arabia to fulfil pilgrimage worship, thus Saudi Arabia is such a religious centre brings with it various consequences. In this context, this paper investigates the nexus between CO2 emissions, economic growth, energy consumption and pilgrimage tourism in Saudi Arabia for the period of 1968–2017. The dynami...

This study investigates the relationship between urbanization and air pollution in Turkey. Dynamic ARDL method was used for the period 1960–2015. According to the findings, there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between long-term urbanization and CO2. If urbanization increased by 1%, carbon emissions increased by 0.02%. Ther...

Substantial increases in the use of energy resources pose a serious threat to environmental quality in a globalized world. It is of critical importance for countries with high levels of CO2 emission to achieve their goals of emission reduction. As a matter of fact, greenhouse gases — and CO2 in particular — bring about global warming, climate chang...

Bu çalışmanın amacı en iyi 10 yükselen piyasa ekonomisinde finansal gelişmişliğin insani gelişim üzerindeki etkisini panel vector autoregression (PVAR) yaklaşımı kullanarak 1990-2018 dönemi için ele almaktır. Bu amaçla özel sektöre sağlanan krediler ve M2 para arzı temel finansal gelişim göstergeleri olarak benimsenmiştir. Elde edilen sonuçlar özel...

Bitcoin and other digital currencies are financial assets with high volatility, which calls for an investigation of the factors that influence their prices and thus has led to a debate on whether they are reliable investment instruments or diversification tools. The present study aims to explore the impact upon Bitcoin prices of commodities such as...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the nexus between natural resources, gross capital formation, globalization, and economic growth in the developing countries from European, Asian, African, and American continents. It adopted the panel vector autoregression (PVAR) approach to test this relationship for the period from 1980 to 2018. Results su...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between energy consumption, financial development, and economic growth in the case of the G7 economies and emerging market economies. To this end, the role of the banking sector, as well as data from both the stock and the bond market, are explicitly used to proxy financial development. It is...

The EKC literature has ignored the importance of natural resources on environmental degradation. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the impact of renewable energy consumption and the abundance of natural resources on CO2 emissions for a panel of 82 countries by using quantile regressions. Empirical results show that renewable energy consumption r...

This study investigates the relationship between urbanization and air pollution in Turkey. Dynamic ARDL method was used for the period 1960–2014. According to the findings, there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between long-term urbanization and Co2. If urbanization increased by 1%, carbon emissions increased by 0.02%. Ther...

Comprehending the determinants of renewable energy (RE) deployment has preoccupied the energy literature as well as policymakers internationally due to countries' overall shift away from fossil fuels in the energy mix. As stated in the literature, empirical studies that analyze the determinants of RE deployment use a number of different indicators...

Çalışmanın amacı Türkiye’de 1991-2016 dönemindeki transfer harcamalarının ekonomik büyümeye etkisinin araştırılmasıdır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda transfer harcamaları sosyal güvenlik harcamaları, iç ve dış borç faiz ödemeleri ve diğer transferler olarak sınıflandırılarak yıllık GSYH artış oranı üzerine etkileri ARDL sınır testi ile analiz edilmiştir. E...

Uluslararası göç hareketlerinin nedenlerinin belirlenmesi günümüzde önemli bir beşerî sermaye olarak kabul edilen insan faktörünün mobilitesinin kontrol edilmesi açısından uygulanması muhtemel politikalara yön vermektedir. Bu kapsamda, çalışmanın amacı göçe ev sahipliği yapan G7 ülkelerinde göçmen nüfusun söz konusu göç kararında etkili olan çekici...

The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between air pollution, economic growth, energy use, trade openness, foreign direct investment, and financial development in N‐11 countries data period from 1980 to 2018. For this purpose, it is adopted the Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) model for the estimation of the long and short‐run...

This study aims to analyze the relationship among international tourism, energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and economic growth in Mediterranean countries for the 1995-2014 data period. According to the results of panel quantile regression model for 17 countries, the tourism-led growth hypothesis is valid in low growth levels, but deviat...

Mediterranean countries are indispensable places of tourism with their world-famous shores, wonderful climate and impressive historical places. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between tourist arrivals and economic freedom indicators such as government integrity, tax burden, government spending, business freedom and trade fr...

Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye’nin de dâhil olduğu G-20 ülke grubu için karbondioksit salınımını finansal gelişme, turizm ve enerji tüketimi göstergeleri ile açıklamaktır. Bu amaçla çalışmada G-20 üyesi 19 ülkeye ait 1995-2017 dönemi yıllık verileri kullanılarak bir panel veri analizi yapılmıştır. Öncelikle değişkenlere ait uzun dönemli eşbütünleşme i...

A vast body of literature either proxies natural resource abundance with total rents or focuses on the natural resource curse hypothesis. Furthermore, most empirical studies in the literature use traditional estimation methods. To fill the mentioned gaps, this study investigates the financial resource curse hypothesis by using the linkage between f...

The continuous growth of transport sector and the increase in carbon emissions from transportation attract the attention of policy makers in sustainable transportation. Therefore, it is of great importance to understand the determinants of pollution from transportation. The aim of this study is to analyze the impacts of economic growth, renewable e...

This paper analyzes the association between energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth. The results from panel quantile regressions for 57 countries and three different regions support deviations from sustainable growth in the full sample, as well as the European and Asian country samples. Similar results are obtained from Mid...

A great number of studies in the literature that estimates the impact of natural resource abundance on financial development proxies financialization with either domestic credit to the private sector or market capitalization of domestic companies. However, these proxies do not fully respond to the complicated structure of financial development. To...

zet Para arzı ve enflasyon arasındaki ilişki iktisat teorisinde büyük ilgi gören ve yaygın bir şekilde araştırılan konulardan biridir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, para arzı, faiz oranı ve döviz kuru ile enflasyon oranı arasında yakın ilişki bulunabileceği hipotezini, 2006:Q4-2018:Q4 dönemine ait üç aylık Türkiye verileri ile test etmektir. Bu hipotezin te...

This study replicates and extends the results presented in a top-cited article in this journal, Inglesi-Lotz (2016), which analyzes the impact of renewable energy consumption to economic growth for the OECD countries by applying the ordinary least squares with fixed effect estimator on the data from 1990 to 2010. By using the same data and methods,...

This paper investigates the relationship between the immigrant population and the unemployment rate in the United States for the period 1980-2013. For this purpose, firstly, coefficients of long and short run relations are estimated by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method and then, linear and nonlinear causality tests are applied. Fin...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of natural resources, energy consumption and gross capital accumulation on economic growth over the period 1980–2018 in 124 countries classified according to different income levels using Panel Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) approach. Panel VAR analysis yielded different findings according to low, middl...

This study aims to contribute to the existing thin body of nonlinear causality literature by applying the new hybrid nonparametric quantile causality approach. In this line, we investigate the non-linear nexus among total factor productivity, energy consumption and carbon emissions for seventeen African countries. From the results, it is remarkable...

The paper aims to analyze the nexus between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and stock returns of tourism companies for Turkey by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) boundary test for data from 1997 to 2017. The results illustrate that an increase in the global and European economic policy uncertainty index affects negatively to Borsa...

İçsel büyüme teorileri kapsamında bu çalışmanın amacı beşeri sermayenin ekonomik büyüme üzerindeki etkisini araştırmaktır. Çalışma ile literatüre sağlanan katkılar ise şu şekilde sıralanabilir. İlk olarak, 2005 yılında Goldman Sachs'ın nüfusu çok olan 11 ülkeyi aynı gruplandırma içine alarak "Gelecek 11 (N-11)" olarak adlandırdığı ülke grubu konu k...

Çalışmanın amacı Türkiye’nin en büyük 500 sanayi kuruluşu içerisinde yer alan ve 19932016 döneminde faaliyette bulunan kamusal sermayeli, özel sermayeli ve sermayesi sonradan özelleştirilen firmaların karlılıklarının sürdürülebilir olup olmamasının araştırılmasıdır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda her üç örneklem grubu için panel birim kök testi sınaması yap...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of US import tariffs on Chinese goods and China import tariffs on US goods on Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index for the period from 1991 to 2016. It is selected Chinese main macroeconomic variables as control variables. For this purpose, it is used ARDL boundary testing approach in this study...

According to the International Migration Outlook 2017, 5 million people entry to OECD countries as a permanent immigrant in 2016. The report highlights some of the advantages and disadvantages of the immigrant population. While the presence of these immigrants in economic activities has an effect on macroeconomic variables such as GDP, they have so...

Bu çalışmanın amacı imalat sektöründe faaliyette bulunan firmaların karlılığının ekonomik büyüme etkisini araştırmaktır. Bu amaçla Türk imalat sektöründe yer alan 101 imalat sanayi firmasına ait 1995-2016 verileri doğrultusunda söz konusu ilişki panel ARDL yöntemi ile analiz edilmiştir. Analiz sonuçları hem kısa hem de uzun dönemde panel autoregres...