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The aim of this study is to analyze the efficiency and productivity of commercial banks operating in Turkey. For this purpose, the efficiency and productivity of 23 commercial banks operating in Turkey, whose continuous data of the years 2005-2018 were reached, have been analyzed through DEA and Malmquist Total Factor Productivity Analysis. In the analysis, the number of branches, number of personnel, non-interest and interest expenses were used as input, while non-interest and interest income were used as output. Looking at the efficiency results in general, banks with foreign capital are more effective than other bank groups. The banks with the highest level of efficiency from foreign banks are banks with low asset size, but they are the ones that use the specified inputs more efficiently and obtain more efficient output compared to other banks. As a result of the 2008 crisis, there has been a decrease in efficiency rates as a sector. Considering the results of 2019 compared to 2018, approximately 61% of the banks included in the analysis (14 out of 23 banks) increased their activities.. Moreover, there was no decline in technological efficiency in any bank group. In technological efficiency, public capital banks are in the background compared to foreign capital and private capital banks. According to the Change in Total Factor productivity, no decline is observed from the banks analyzed in the analysis. The highest progress per bank group belongs to Foreign Capital Deposit Banks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As the experiences of newly industrialized economies have shown, R&D and knowledge diffusion can play a crucial role in spurring the innovation capacity and productivity of emerging economies. Using firm level manufacturing data from 2003 to 2007, this paper investigates whether R&D intensity and various channels of knowledge diffusion affect productivity in Turkey-one of the fastest-growing emerging economies of the past decade. We find that an increase in the foreign ownership share in firms and technology licensing increases firms' productivity-although the conditional effect of the latter is significant only above a threshold of technological capability. Moreover, an increase in R&D intensity raises productivity only in firms with a threshold of technological capability, while industry level R&D spillovers do so only in firms with above average technological capability. These results support the view that emerging economies such as Turkey would benefit greatly from investing in technological capacity building, technology licensing as well as from attracting greater foreign direct investment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to compare sectoral efficiency and productivity of the largest 500 manufacturing industrial firms in Turkey. The structure of these firms is analyzed, a general information on Malmqumist total factor productivity index and data envelopment analysis is given and finally efficiency and productivity findings of the sectors are evaluated. The amprical evidence suggests that 38 of 44 sectors ensure upturn in total factor productivity for the research period, while for the rest -6 sectors- experienced a reduction in total factor productivity. Besides, wholesale food, drink and cleaning products; wholesale and foreign trade and jewellery have become 3 major sector which are fully efficient. 41 of 44 sectors, on the other hand, can not catch the boundary of the best production efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to evaluate the performance of foreign affiliated and domestic firms in Turkish manufacturing subsectors covering the period 1992 and 2001. Due to the heterogeneity between domestic and foreign affiliated firms in terms of technology level, we construct a meta-frontier model to measure relative efficiency and technology gap ratios (TGR's) of domestic and foreign affiliated firms. We find that technical efficiencies of foreign affiliated firms are higher than domestic firms, and display a stable pattern during the investigation period. However; technology gap ratios indicate the existence of a negative relationship between the TGR's and technical efficiency of the firms in domestic subsectors. This means that technically efficient firms are in fact using the low level of technology. However the results do not indicate any significant relationship between the technical efficiency and TGR's of foreign affiliated firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we aim to analyze the productivity spillovers of foreign affiliated and domestic firms in Turkish manufacturing industries. As a novelty inter-sectoral linkages are modeled through the use of spatial models. Our results indicate the existence of positive and significant productivity spillovers among the neighborhood firms. We also find that an increase in the share of foreign affiliated firms in a given industry has positive impact on the productivity level of vertically related industries. However, our results do not provide any clear evidence that domestic firms benefit from the foreign affiliated firms either operating in the same industry or in the neighborhood industries. The findings suggest that unlike the effects of foreign affiliated firms, research and development expenditures significantly contribute to the productivity levels of domestic firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study has two main purposes. First one is the necessity of taking minimum wages into account, if there is a purpose to analyze the relationship between wages and productivity in an economy which has high unemployment rates and informal employment. Second one is about the analyzing method of this relationship. We choose TAR cointegration analysis for this relation. First step of this analysis is testing for stationarity of the variables. However the low power of traditional unit root tests is examined and proved in many studies but not taken into account in TAR cointegration studies in literature. This study shows that traditional unit root tests are unfavorable for the variables which have TAR structures. Because of this shortcoming of traditional unit root tests, these results must be supported with TAR unit root tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate culture, which is acknowledged as a company's identity, has started to gain more importance with the developments in recent years. The main reason for a company forming a genuine culture is the effectiveness of the culture on business life, employees and costumer relations. It helps the firm to be well-known, and forms its values and relations with other organisations and individuals. Nowadays, the possibility of Turkish Ready to wear firms being able to compete both in national and international markets and being able to meet clients' „time, cost and quality" expectations is high. In this research, to reveal the relationship between corporate culture and operational efficiency in Turkish Ready to Wear industries, a survey was conducted amongst a total of 360 executives in 19 establishments, most of whom are in Istanbul. The results obtained were analysed using statistic package software - SPSS 16.0. for MS Windows [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper investigates the link between stock performance of the listed commercial banks in the Turkish stock exchange and three measures of bank performance, such as technical efficiency, scale efficiency and productivity for the period 1998-2008. The relationship between efficiency and stock returns is investigated by running a regression of stock returns on measures of performance and some bank specific variables. The results indicate that the changes in three measures of performance have positive and significant effect on stock returns, suggesting that stocks of technical efficient, scale efficient and productive banks tend to outperform their inefficient and unproductive rivals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The miners have experienced major work accidents up to date in Zonguldak coal mining area. According to Turkish Hard Coal Enterprise statistics 3.562 miners have lost their lives and 382.704 of them were injured. Therefore in this study how work accidents and injuries affected the productivity was investigated by regression analysis. According to the findings of the study showed a significant relationship between productivity and work accidents. It is also found that productivity was negatively affected by work accidents. However, a weak correlation was found between productivity and injuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economic globalization since 1970'es have increased the importance of world cities in the global economy, and a global urban system has emerged. Economic development is clustered in metropolitan regions and their periphery, which have certain advantages for international trade, such as proximity and historical connections; leading to sustaining regional inequalities. In this context, core, semiperipheral and peripheral areas form a global economic system. Transnational companies and transformation of production systems into more flexible forms play key roles in this spatial restructuring processes. Turkey's integration to the global economy which gained impetus in the post 1970 period has likely lead to similar spatial developments. The Neoclassical regional growth theory foresees a decrease in regional inequalities among countries or regions in the long run, due to decreasing returns to capital.. According to Solow's growth model, initially poorer regions grow faster and catchup with richer regions. Endogenous growth theories reject the Neoclassical theory which assumes technology as a purely exogenous process, and propose that regional inequalities in productivity rates could be persistent due to local knowledge growth and diffusion, or, growth of human capital. Postneoclassical empirical findings furthermore show that productivity growth may not be limited to a region and spatial spillovers may lead to growth of productivity in neighbor regions. Empirical studies about Turkey provide evidence of productivity convergence and first order neighbor region effects on productivity growth in the pre-1995 period. However, it should not be thought that spillovers are effective only for first order neighbors in a country like Turkey, where sharp differences between Eastern and Western provinces are observed. Spatial spillover effects may span longer distances, as evident elsewhere in the world. Apart from such spillovers empirical studies on Turkey have also demonstrated that human capital has an effect on per capita productivity growth in Turkey in the pre1995 period. It is thought that this is still an important cause of productivity growth at the regional level, in the period 19902000. Three questions are asked regarding theoretical approaches and empirical findings on Turkey. Has regional inequalities in productivity rates decreased, or, in other words, is there beta convergence in Turkey during 1990-2000? Do long distance spatial spill-overs have an impact on regional growth? And last, but not the least: Did growth of human capital have an effect on regional growth? In order to answer these questions, three variables are identified and a conditional beta convergence model is specified. The model is in the form of a log-linear cross-sectional model where the dependent variable is the productivity growth per worker in a region. Furthermore, it incorporates neighborhood effects within 500 km. Particularly, the model incorporates the influence of initial productivity levels of neighbor regions on growth of productivity within a region. A preliminary Moran's I test demonstrates that there is significant but weak spatial autocorrelation between the initial per worker productivity levels of neighbor regions and the growth rate of per worker productivity in a region. The model is estimated by using an OLS estimation procedure. The result is an adjusted R2 of 0.39. Usual tests like Breusch-Pagan and White tests show that hetero-skedasticity is not a problem and Jarque Bera test is not significant. Therefore, the model is thought to be thoroughly specified. Findings suggest that initially poorer regions grow faster, pointing to convergence. The speed of convergence is about 1.89% per annum, which indicates a half-life of approximately 37 years. The result suggests that the inequalities between productive and less productive regions are decreasing slowly. As expected, initial productivity levels of neighbor regions have a positive impact on growth of productivity in a region. Therefore, it could be concluded that spatial spillovers reach far distances, leading to growth in semi-peripheral areas. The strongest impact on productivity growth belongs to the human capital variable. Excessive growth of per worker scientific and technical professionals is an important determinant of productivity growth. Although the results suggest conditional convergence, they also point that regional growth is stronger in regions around developed metropolitan regions. Regional inequalities are likely to persist between East and West for a long time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine the effects of trade policy changes on the evolution of productivity in the Turkish manufacturing industry. Plant level productivities are estimated for the 1983–1996 period following the procedure of Olley and Pakes. Industry averages indicate that productivity gains are largest in import-competing industries with highest gains reaching 8% per year during periods of rapid decline in protection rates. We find that productivity improvements resulting from declining protection rates are statistically significant and economically important, especially in import-competing sectors. More importantly, productivity improvements due to declining protection rates increase with the plant size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human resource today has a strategic role for productivity increase of any organization, and this makes it superior in the industrial competition. With the effective and optimum usage of it, all the advantages supplied by the productivity growth can be obtained. This usage is just possible by establishing clear and understandable criteria for the factors affecting labour. Therefore, it is aimed in this study that the factors influencing construction labour productivity in Turkey are determined, defined, and examined in detail. A survey was applied to 82 firms to obtain required data. According to results, the most effective factors group is organizational factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Past literature has established the relationship between productivity and exporting. This paper provides further understanding about this issue by examining the productivity effects of export status at different points of the conditional output distribution and by investigating the productivity effects of firms with different exporting status (i.e., new exporters versus continuous exporters). Plant-level data of Turkish manufacturing firms are analyzed using quantile regression techniques. The empirical results indicate that the productivity effect of exporting is present at all points along the conditional output distribution, and this effect increases as one moves from the lower tail to the upper tail of the distribution. Exporting firms that continuously exported throughout the time period have more pronounced productivity effects compared to firms in other categories (i.e., new exporting firms, exporting firms that exit, and exporting firms that switch exporting practices). These results have implications for firm behavior and for targeting policy prescriptions to augment manufacturing competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although labour productivity problems are thought of as a factor mainly caused by the lack of commitment by the labour force, it essentially arises by a process in which several parameters are interrelated such as the effects of legislation, management and labour responsibility. In the present study, the method of Labour Productivity Management by Ratio (WPMR) was used to assess labour productivity at the lignite mining company, GLE-Turkey, since this method takes into account the factors affecting labour productivity. The method was applied to the stripping area of GLE-Turkey in order to measure and interpret the labour productivity in this mine. A major conclusion of the present investigation was that labour productivity at GLE was found to be lower than should be expected. It was also found that most of the labour productivity losses were related to both legislative restrictions and the lack of management and supervision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]