Training for Egyptian Competition Authority TEPAV, in cooperation with Turkish Competition Authority, will deliver five-day training for Egyptian Competition Authority officials.
31/12/2010- 2338
ANKARA - Turkish Competition Authority and TEPAV will deliver training for Egyptian Competition Authority officials on 3-7 January 2011 in Ankara. Trainings to be delivered by the Turkish Competition Authority will involve a wide spectrum of topi
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TRIPP, Competition,
Evaluation Note / Sarp Kalkan Short term fund inflows are harmful for banks
30/12/2010- 2038
The monetary easing followed by the central banks in developed countries, FED to begin with, elevated short term fund flows towards developing countries including Turkey. Since the primary channel of entry for fund flows is the banking sector,
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Financial Markets, Stability, Global Financial Crisis, Current Account Deficit,
Government Budget Patched Through the Unemployment Fund The amount of transfers to budget from the Unemployment Fund reached 8.6 billion TL over the 2008-2010 October.
24/12/2010- 2804
ANKARA- Non-budgetary revenues, privatization revenues and unemployment fund revenues predominant among them, contributed substantially to the recovery in the budget balance. The amount of transfers to budget only from the Unemployment Fund reac
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Fiscal Monitoring , Stability Institute, Stability, Budget Performance, Unemployment Insurance Fund,
TEPAV: "Higher Education Board Harms the Economy" TEPAV's research identified that the lack of autonomy across universities in Turkey affected innovation performance adversely.
14/12/2010- 2360
ANKARA-TEPAV research aiming to shed light on the correlation between the higher education system in Turkey and competitiveness identified that the lack of autonomy across universities in Turkey affected innovation performance adversely.
TEPAV pol
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Education , Innovation, R&D, Economic Development, Competitiveness,
TEPAV Inaugurates the ‘Merih Celasun Memorial Day’ Events TEPAV inaugurates 'Merih Celasun Memorial Day' events in commemoration of Prof. Merih Celasun who made valuable contributions to economics. In the first event of the series Prof. Dani Rodrik of Harvard University will deliver a presentation.
14/12/2010- 2256
ANKARA - TEPAV, as a think-tank concentrating on identifying the problems of Turkey's economy and providing short and long term policies to remedy these problems, inaugurates memorial events for Prof. Merih Celasun who offered important solutions
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Turkish Economy, Merih Celasun Memorial Day,
Prof. Hausmann: “Diversify product pattern and focus on India than China” In a roundtable meeting organized by TEPAV Hausmann delivered a speech with the title 'Turkey's Growth and Regional Development'.
08/12/2010- 2426
ISTANBUL -Prof. Ricardo Hausmann, Director of Harvard University Center for International Development, stated that the development of average consumption patterns in the world is similar to Turkey's export pattern and made some recommendations fo
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Industrial Policy, Exports, Regional Development, Growth,
Evaluation Note / Bengisu Özenç & Selin Arslanhan An Evaluation of PISA 2009 Results
08/12/2010- 2928
"Turkey is amongst the countries who achieved the largest score improvements; however we could not make it to the upper level. In the assessment where 1 denotes the worst and 6 denotes the best performance, Turkey's level is 2 in all three ca
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Second Generation Reforms, Education ,
Commentary/Esen Çağlar: On the Spread of Industry and Movie Theatres in Anatolia Commentary by TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar 'On the Spread of Industry and Movie Theatres in Anatolia' is published.
06/12/2010- 1580
The commentary assessed:
Regions failing to attract qualified brains will face the risk of losing competitiveness. A province can become a center of attraction to the extent that it is livable. Thus, the number of movie theatres in Turkey, which s
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Industrial Policy, Private Sector Development, Life Quality,
TEPE in the Negative Zone in November 2010: -2.7 Achieving positive values since August 2010, TEPE went to the negative zone in November and stood at -2.7.
02/12/2010- 1803
ANKARA - Achieving positive values since August 2010, TEPE went to the negative zone in November and stood at -2.7. TEPE dropped by 3.8 points month-on-month and increased by 7.2 points year-on-year.
In November 2010 expectations for the next 3 mo
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TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator (TEPE) , Retailing Sector,
TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Çağlar: “A Jump is Needed and Industrial Policy is the Answer” Delivering a speech in the annual conference of Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economics Institutes (FEMISE) Çağlar emphasized that Turkey faces the risk of "middle income trap" and that the answer to the needed Jump is a new industrial policy.
24/11/2010- 1773
ROME - TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar emphasized that Turkey is stuck in between two 'worlds' and needs the new industrial policy. Evaluating Turkey's industry Çağlar stated that it is challenging for Turkey to converge to US and EU i
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Industrial Policy, Economic Transformation, Innovation,
