Applied Economics for Development: Empirical Approaches to Selected Social and Economic Issues in Transition Economies

Table of Contents (v)......Page 3
Introduction (ix)......Page 5
1. Zortuk & Karacan: Tourism Development — Economic Growth Nexus, an Empirical Application on Transition Countries (1)......Page 9
2. Aydin: Analyzing the Shadow Economy of Selected Transition Economies by a Mimic Model (19)......Page 27
3. Acar: Neoliberal Transformation and Practices of Privatization in Transition Economies (43)......Page 50
4. Bayrak Gezdim & Zortuk: The Impact of FDI on Economic Growth in Transition Countries: a Panel Quantile Regression Approach (63)......Page 70
5. Hızarcı Beşer & Beşer: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Tax Revenues: Evidence from Selected Transition Economies (79)......Page 85
6. Acar & Burhan: Evaluation of FDI Attractiveness of Selected Transition Economies: An Analytic Network Process Based BOCR Approach (115)......Page 120
7. Aydin & Ari: Analysis of the Relationship between Social and Economic Indicators of Selected Transition Countries by Canonical Correlation Analysis (135)......Page 140
8. Behdioğlu & Çelik: Urbanization and CO2 Emission in Transition Economies: A Neural Network Approach (155)......Page 159
9. Bozkurt & Karacan: An Empirical Approach to Consumption of Renewable Energy Sources in Transition Economies (177)......Page 181
10. Ari & Yildiz: The Investigation of Female Labor Force Indicators by Using Clustering and Multidimensional Scaling Analysis (191)......Page 195
11. Acaroğlu: The Economic Preferences Necessary for Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap: An Analysis on Selected Transition Economies (211)......Page 214
12. Behdioğlu & Çilesiz: Measuring Quality of Life in Transition Economies: Mimic Model Approach (241)......Page 244
Conclusion (257)......Page 259
Index (261)......Page 263