Fatih Özatay, PhD
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Index obsession-2
Having qualified academic publications is one of the prominent criteria used for measuring the performance of academics in some universities. Continued from last…
Is Mr. Başçı left with the “hot tray”?
Is it possible that Erdem Başçı did not participate in the design of the unorthodox monetary policy in effect? Let me begin with a phenomenon the readers of this column…
2010 budget comparatively looser than the 2009 budget
If you are not happy with the high level of current account deficit in 2010 you should have tightened the budget. This is currently missing. Last Thursday I stated that…
Index obsession-1
The study is recognized to be qualified if it is published in a journal involved in a respected index. However, this recognition would not always be true. In his…
If the fiscal policy is not tight
Turkey has chosen to implement a "loose" fiscal policy in 2010 taking into account the general elections ahead. Turkey's economy grew impressively by 8.9 percent in…
Do short term fund inflows slow down?
Banking and the corporate sector could access to long term borrowing. Moreover, use of long term capital stood above that of short term capital. Balance of payments…
Smart boys
You cannot benefit sufficiently from the experts at international standards which are already few and thus you cannot fulfill your desires in the international race of…
Is the code in the university entrance exam also the code of the level of welfare?
Citizens' having high educational attainment and a wide set of skills are one of the main reasons enabling nation-wide prosperity. I took the university entrance exam in…
Possible outcomes of the efforts towards fiscal discipline
The extraordinary recovery performance can be utilized to get prepared for the rainy days. To remedy the rise in the unemployment rate and the fall in production during…
Different aspects and breaking the routine
We then came to discuss that inflation targeting regimes must aim to promote financial stability as well as focusing on the inflation and the production gap. After I…
What surprise?
When you make clear facts a matter of debate, you cannot save time to focus on the actually debatable dimensions of the decision. I had no doubt that we are living in a…
Economic problems ahead for Egypt and Tunisia
Turkey is facing the same medium and long term problems with Egyptian and Tunisian friends making effort towards democratization. Seventeenth annual conference of the…