Semra Boğa

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Beykent University

In an era marked by increasing global challenges related to sustainability and human well-being, this research investigates the complex interrelationship between financial inclusion (FI), carbon footprint, and human development in the unique context of Türkiye. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset spanning three decades, we employ advanced econometri...

In this study, we delved into the complex interaction between carbon emissions and critical economic and environmental factors using Two-step Sys-GMM Dynamic Panel Data Estimation. Our comprehensive dataset encompassed 66 major carbon-emitting nations spanning 1990-2020, providing a robust analytical foundation. Our key findings revealed a notewort...

Income inequality has become an important economic and humanitarian problem for both advanced and emerging economies, especially with the increase in financialization trends. The equitable distribution of income has garnered attention in both developed and developing nations, given the rise in global trade and production. However, limited research...

Many investors include cryptocurrencies as potential investment tools in their portfolios. Previous studies have mostly analyzed Bitcoin regarding its hedge and safe haven features. Although the cryptocurrency market has expanded far beyond Bitcoin, few studies have examined the interaction among all other cryptocurrencies and conventional financia...

Blockchain technology originally finding applications in Fintech and supply chain management is rapidly expanding applications to other industries as well as the public sector. “Blockchain has been compared to the invention of the internet and its comprehensive impact on almost every industry.” R. Beck and B. Markey-Towler (2017) A recent study by...

This study aims to determine the factors affecting life satisfaction in Turkey. The life satisfactionscale of Diener et al. (1985) was used (N=557) in the study. In addition to traditional determinants of lifesatisfaction such as income, gender, marital status, age, education level, credit debt variable was includedin the survey questions. The resu...

In the development of the global economic system, the cumulative knowledge from past to present is of great importance. This knowledge produced by social life offers creative individuals and groups an opportunity to produce new meanings, values, contents and a source of inspiration. The influence of creative sectors in the urban life and socio-econ...

ABSTRACT Purpose- The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is an asymmetric relationship between economic growth and unemployment in Turkey. Methodology- In assessing this relationship, quarterly unemployment rate and GDP data for the period between 2000-2019 were examined. Assessment of the relationship between these variables (ag...

The purpose of this study is to elucidate how financial openness affects income inequality in Turkey. Annual data on Income Share, Financial Openness, Inflation, Public Expenditures and GDP Per Capita covering the 1990-2016 period were analyzed using time series techniques. Stationarity analysis of these macroeconomic variables was assessed using K...

The primary purpose of this research is to identify and evaluate the key drivers of private investment (PI) in Turkey. The corporate tax, private sector credit, GDP per capita, exchange rate, inflation and interest rate were chosen as predictors. These variables were analyzed using time series analysis methods and annual data for the period of 1975...

The aim of this study is to measure the impact of economic complexity on economic growth. A panel time series analysis was conducted for 13 transition countries -Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Northern Macedonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia- in the European continent using annual data for 19...

This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between the foreign capital inflows and domestic investment in 14 developing countries -Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey- over the period 1990-2017. Pesaran’s Cross-Section Dependence Test was perfo...

This study investigates the relationship between high-tech product exports and economic growth in EU-15 countries between 1998-2017. The dataset composed of gross domestic product (GDP), high-technology exports (HT), labor force (LF), and gross fixed capital formation (PC). Dumitrescu & Hurlin Causality, Westerlund Cointegration and MG Estimator em...

Tarihi 1. yüzyılda Roma İmparatorluğu'nda yaşanan finansal krize kadar uzanan iktisadi krizler, 1929 yılında yaşanan Büyük Buhran, 1973 Petrol Krizi ve 1990'ların sonlarında Asya ve Latin Amerika'da yaşanan krizlerle 20. yüzyılın "yeni normali" hâline gelmiştir. Ekonomik aktivitenin oldukça olumlu seyrettiği dönemlerin arkasından bir krizin ortaya...

The aim of this study is to investigate the determinants of FDI inflows in Sub-Saharan African countries. In this study, panel data analysis was performed by using annual data from 23 countries for the period of 1975-2017. The Pesaran (2004) Cross-Section Dependence Test was performed to test correlation and IPS Unit Root Test was applied to reveal...

In this research, the short-term and the long-term relationships between tourism receipts and economic growth was investigated. The dataset includes 483 observations for the period from 1995 to 2017 of selected 21 Asia Pacific Economies. According to "Dumitrescu & Hurlin VAR Panel Causality Test", which is employed to analyse the short-term causali...

The authors introduce the application of agency theory within organizational networks in order to offer some new insights for organizational and economic sciences. Previous research has neglected the presence of agency problem in these relatively new structures in favor of examining the nature of principal-agent relationship from behavioral and eco...