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    Quality of Government Cohesion Across EU Regions: Success or Failure
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2026-01-16) Karahasan, Burhan Can
    Regional differences in institutions is a threat for political and economic integration. In this paper, we analyse the institutional convergence across regions of the European Union (EU). Preliminary results show that there is continuous improvement fostering institutional convergence. However, heterogeneity analyses point-out that the speed of institutional development is influenced by the enlargement phases of the union. Additional results indicate that the regions of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and the southern regions belonging to Greece and Spain experience faster institutional convergence. Accordingly, the enlargement process, fostering further heterogeneity, is an important element to improve the institutional quality of the new EU members. However, temporal convergence trends show that the dynamics of institutional convergence shift over time, reflecting the non-stationary evolution of success-failure cases.
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    Precarious Work and Individual Deprivation During the Post-COVID Era: Lessons From Turkey
    (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2025-05-13) Kinikoğlu, C.N.; Karahasan, B.C.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
    Populism and Income Inequality: Is Income Inequality in Türkiye a Political Choice?
    (Istanbul Univ, 2024-12-31) Asfuroğlu, Dila
    The argument that national inequalities are political and thereby driven by political decisions implies that income distribution is not merely an economic phenomenon but also a political one. Hence, this study explores the impact of populist governance on income inequality in T & uuml;rkiye. In doing so, this study addresses whether income inequality in T & uuml;rkiye is a political choice, drawing on economic, social, and political data over the years 20082022. According to the results of the quantitative analysis, the share of income for the working class has fallen, the income gap between the lowest and highest deciles of the working class has narrowed, and the potential for fiscal interventions to reduce income inequality is not realised. In return, the income inequality that existed in 2008 has persisted at the same magnitude over the years. In other words, even if income inequality is not an explicit political choice, the populist governance in T & uuml;rkiye between 2008 and 2022 has chosen not to contribute to the solution to this prevailing inequality.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
    Citation - Scopus: 4
    Institutional Quality and Geography of Discontent in the Eu
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023-12-12) Pınar, Mehmet; Karahasan, Burhan Can
    There has been a significant rise in anti-establishment votes in the European Union (EU). The decline in socio-economic outcomes and migration played an important role in understanding the rising discontent. However, none of the existing studies analysed the effect of socio-economic factors in different institutional settings. Our findings confirm that institutional quality is of paramount importance in explaining the recent rise in populism in the EU, as institutionally developed EU regions are less opposed to EU integration. Remarkably, the effects of socio-economic factors on populist votes vary in different institutional settings. The findings highlight that institutional improvements are vital for the EU perception of less developed and socio-economically isolated EU regions.
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    Citation - WoS: 6
    Citation - Scopus: 6
    Effects of Vaccination and the Spatio-Temporal Diffusion of Covid-19 Incidence in Turkey
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022-06-04) Bilgel, Fırat; Karahasan, Burhan Can
    This study assesses the spatio-temporal impact of vaccination efforts on Covid-19 incidence growth in Turkey. Incorporating geographical features of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, we adopt a spatial Susceptible–Infected–Recovered (SIR) model that serves as a guide of our empirical specification. Using provincial weekly panel data, we estimate a dynamic spatial autoregressive (SAR) model to elucidate the short- and the long-run impact of vaccination on Covid-19 incidence growth after controlling for temporal and spatio-temporal diffusion, testing capacity, social distancing behavior and unobserved space-varying confounders. Results show that vaccination growth reduces Covid-19 incidence growth rate directly and indirectly by creating a positive externality over space. The significant association between vaccination and Covid-19 incidence is robust to a host of spatial weight matrix specifications. Conspicuous spatial and temporal diffusion effects of Covid-19 incidence growth were found across all specifications: the former being a severer threat to the containment of the pandemic than the latter.
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    Citation - WoS: 6
    Citation - Scopus: 8
    Arbitrageur Behavior in Sentiment-Driven Asset-Pricing
    (World Scientific Publishing, 2021-09-01) Kılıç, Erdem; Oğuzhan, Göksel; Goksel, Oguzhan
    This study aims to model arbitrageur behavior in a sentiment-driven capital asset-pricing model under the premise of reflecting a more detailed decomposition of investor types in the equity markets. We explore the behavior and the impact of arbitrageur behavior, particularly, on pricing and on key financial ratios. We observe that the prevalence of the arbitrageur counteracts the effects of unsophisticated investors, resulting in a lower volatility of the price–dividend ratio, lower predictive power of changes in consumption for future price changes and lower equity premium. Thus, the results of our research allow us to conjecture that the extrapolation bias in the prices is lowered.
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    Citation - WoS: 5
    Citation - Scopus: 4
    Economic Geography and Human Capital Accumulation in Turkey: Evidence From Micro-Data
    (Routledge, 2021-02-24) Karahasan, Burhan Can; Bilgel, Fırat
    This study examines the impact of market access on human capital accumulation in Turkey. Using individual-level data, the analysis explores the background of human capital accumulation, combining market accessibility, wages and human capital development. Upon the treatment of wages as an endogenous covariate of interest and overtime work as an exogenous source of variation, we find evidence that the impact of market access on human capital development vanishes in ways not predicted by the augmented New Economic Geography set-up for human capital accumulation. Findings confirm that economic policies may be effective in reducing regional variation in human capital endowments.