Kamil Sertoglu

Eastern Mediterranean University · Department of Economics

This study measures the impact of traceability attributes on international buyers’ willingness to pay for coffee produced in Ethiopia and the impact of accurate information on the production location of the coffee on the pricing according to its type and grade. Two sets of regression models were used to investigate the important determinant factors...

This research aimed at examining the nexus among urbanization, energy use, foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth, and environmental sustainability in Turkey. Time-series data from 1970 to 2017 were used in the analysis, and ecological footprint was used as an indicator for environmental sustainability. The aim was to investigate the long...

This study examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on major agricultural commodity prices (cattle, cocoa, coffee, corn, cotton, hog, rice, soya oil, soybeans, soybean meal, sugar and wheat) using daily data from 1 January 2016 to 25 February 2022. We measured COVID-19 effect using a news-based sentiment index. A robust nonparametric Granger ca...

This study is relevant towards determining the ability of Turkey in mitigating environmental degradation which is one of the major areas of concern. Therefore, we aimed to examine the linkage among agriculture, energy use, economic performance and FDI with environmental sustainability. To this end, ecological footprint has been considered as a more...

Turkey attracted more foreign investment in a period when global foreign direct investment flows experienced a recession due to the USA-China trade war/tension coupled with structural issues within the EU nations. In this paper, the time-varying impact of foreign direct investment on environmental sustainability targets amidst global economic downt...

This study computed the comparative advantage (CA) of 28 oil-producing countries in crude oil over the period 1990–2016 using Normalised Revealed Comparative Advantage (NRCA) index and applied a Panel ARDL model to investigate the determinants of the CA. The results of the NRCA index indicated that not all the sampled 28 countries have a CA in crud...

This study investigates the determinants of comparative advantage of crude oil production in 10 OPEC and 10 non‐OPEC countries over the period 1990–2016. The study calculates the comparative advantage using the Normalized Revealed Comparative Advantage index (NRCA) and further estimates the relationship between the comparative advantage and three e...

This study investigates the relationship between environmental performance and the comparative advantage of crude oil by incorporating the role of institutional quality in 28 oil-producing countries from 2002 to 2014. Using dynamic panel data analysis, the results show that environmental performance and institutional quality along with the conventi...

This study aims to explore the long-term productivity dynamics of the economy of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus by using a simple Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model. More specifically, we aim to analyze the impact of macroeconomic instability and socioeconomic infrastructure on total factor productivity over the 1977-2017 period....

This paper investigates the comparative advantage of crude oil in the top 10 oil-producing countries over the period 1990-2016 through computing the Normalized Revealed Comparative Advantage (NRCA) index and further examines the determinants of this advantage using panel estimation technique. The results of the NRCA index showed that not all the to...

Agriculture is a panacea for economic growth (Myrdal, 1897). The battle for long-run economic growth is either won or lost in the agricultural sector. However, how this path births economic prosperity has been the subject of debates among economist and development scholars. This study empirically examines the impact of agricultural sector on the ec...

This paper empirically analyses the long run relationship between agricultural trade performance and real exchange rate in Turkey by using quarterly data covering 1994:Q1-2012:Q3. The other factors that are expected to effect agricultural trade balance such as ratio of export and import prices of agricultural goods, producer prices, real income of...

Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti (KKTC) kısa ekonomik geçmişinde, uluslararası camia ile yeterli etkileşim ve işbirliğinden uzak kalması nedeniyle zaman içerisinde kendine özgü ekonomik politikalar ve kurumsal yapılanma ile halkının ekonomik ve sosyal yaşamını geliştirmeye ve refah düzeyini artırmaya çalışmıştır. Tipik küçük ada ekonomisi özellikleri...

This study investigates the relationship between oil price movements and macroeconomic aggregates, such as gross domestic product (GDP), consumer prices (CPI), and unemployment, for OECD countries. To do this, second generation econometric methods have been employed to panel data including panel unit root tests, panel cointegration tests, and panel...

Cyprus Problem is being discussed from a different perspective since the application of South Cyprus for full membership to the European Union. Today the problem came to a turning point where the efforts for solving the problem would end up at a point where the division of the island becomes permanent. The study first evaluates the relations betwee...

Turkey is the only pluralist secular democracy in the Moslem world and has always targeted herself as being part of the western world and values. Turkey started to establish close economic relations with Europe by the 1963 Ankara Agreement. By 1995, Turkey abolished most of the barriers in her trade through a customs union agreement with the Europe...

The Cyprus problem became a subject that not only threatens the acceptance of Cyprus to the European Union but the whole enlargement process as well. Greece strongly supports the acceptance of Cyprus to the Union even without a solution to the Cyprus problem. On the other hand, other EU members and Turkey firmly reject this proposal. The study eval...

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