Mehmet Mercan

Aydın Adnan Menderes University

Energy is pivotal for sustainable economic growth. Undoubtedly, the role of the composition of the export basket (measured as economic complexity) is one of the crucial variables influencing energy consumption. Despite its importance, the existing body of literature does not intensively study the relationship between economic complexity and total e...

Achieving carbon neutrality targets is a major challenge for Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries that experience mounting ecological degradation over the last few decades. To deal with this situation, the trading of green products may play a crucial role. However, previous studies have not captured the net impact...

Özet İçsel büyüme modelleriyle birlikte literatürde incelenmeye başlanmış olan eğitimin ekonomiye etkisi genellikle beşeri sermaye modelleri üzerinden analiz edilmiştir. Eğitim ve işsizlik arasındaki ilişkiyi ölçen çalışmalar okuryazarlık oranı, eğitim seviyesi gibi değişkenleri kullanarak beşeri sermaye olarak eğitimin işsizliye etkisini ölçmeye ç...

Yatirim ve tasarruflar ulkelerin surdurulebilir ekonomik buyumeyi saglayabilmelerinde onemli makroekonomik belirleyicilerdir. Yatirim-tasarruf iliskisi bircok calismaya konu olmakla birlikte Feldstein-Horioka (1980), yatirim-tasarruf iliskisini uluslararasi sermaye hareketliligi ile izah etmektedir. Sermaye hareketleri uzerinde kisitlamalarin oldug...

In this study the determinants of economic growth and the effects of 2008 global economic crisis on growth were analysed by using 1990-2012 periods’ annual data in the sample of Turkey and Central Asia Countries (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan). The 2008 crisis started in the USA in mid-2008 in mortgage...

This study investigated the effect of liberalization of the capital movements on economic growth for Turkey for the period 1992-2010 using the vector autoregression (VAR) model. According to results of variance decomposition analysis, economic growth has been affected from both liberalization of capital movements and the financial development that...

Intra-Industry Trade(IIT)expressed as both the export and import of the same goods (those in statistical product line), that traditional trade theories could not explain, within the period has been adressed within the scope of the "new foreign trade theory", and occupies an important place in today's world trade.Indexes were developed in order to m...

Original Sin (OSIN) is defined that national money can’t use as regards borrow in foreign market or national money can’t use in terms of borrowing in long term. When the country borrows in world markets, in order to use money of developed countries occurs negative results for developing countries. In this study, OSIN term which new enter the econom...