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Determinants of Credit Card Use: Evidence from Cross-Section Data in Turkey
Get PDFIt is of importance to make payments contactless regarding hygiene rules, especially in shopping under new normal principles. It is expected that this will increase credit card use. Based on this, the aim of the study is to determine the demographic, economic and environmental factors affecting the use of credit card. In this study, the data carried out by the Turkish Statistical Institute were used. Binary logistic regression and binary probit regression analyzes were administered under discrete choice analysis to specify the factors affecting the household credit card use status. The analysis results showed that the factors, such as gender, marital status, educational background, age, household size, employment status, income, expenditure, financial assets, saving, online shopping, and questionnaire year were effective on the credit card use attitudes of households. Determining the effects and effect sizes of these has contributed to explain the attitude of credit card use and has guided decision-makers and policymakers to transform the use of credit cards for contributing to the economy
The Effect of Technological Innovation on Co2 Emissions in OECD Countries: Using Panel Regression
Get PDF In this study, we are trying to find out that the environmental changes that are taking place due to the impact of CO2 have a negative impact on the environment of the (OECD) countries. And our goal is to see if technology changes and developments in general have an impact on the environment and how countries' environments can be cleaned up because of technology developments, that work as an organization for this purpose. So, we rely on ways to achieve our results as well as using (Panel regression). And based on data from several countries. We used this model (CADF, ADF, DF, GDP, GDP2, PATENT, INV, RE, TE). We found out the effect of the development of patents (Technological innovation) on CO2 emissions is positive, indicating that technological innovation is not worthwhile for the mitigation of carbon emissions in the selected (OECD) countries
Revolutionizing Insurance Sector in India: A Case of Blockchain Adoption Challenges
Get PDFBackground: Insurance concept was found numerous centuries before Christ (BC). Correspondingly, Chinese and Babylonian traders practiced moving or dispensing risks in 2nd and 3rd millennia BC. Now a days, insurance is the backbone of the economy but developing economies are facing challenges in increasing their penetration. The recent introduction of Big Data, IoT and InsurTech led to fourth industrial revolution in insurance in the developed world.
Objective: This study aims to explore the challenges and solutions in adopting blockchain technology to increase insurance penetration in India.
Research Methodology: This study applied a systematic literature review (SLR) to extract the themes/variables relating to challenges and solutions in adopting big data analytics in India's insurance sector. Several keywords were used to search relevant literature from Google Scholar. Based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, the filtered studies were explored.
Findings: This study listed several challenges and their solutions in the adoption of blockchain technology in Indian insurance industry. Policymakers could adapt to the suggestions provided in improving the service delivery insurance secto
Sales Increasing Strategies Based on Menu Item Performance: Case of a Luxury Restaurant
Get PDFAs one of the food and beverage cost control tools in the restaurant industry, menus can inform service providers about the restaurant's performance and assist them in developing sustainable sales-increasing strategies through appropriate analysis techniques. Since menu item activities have an important role in the profitability of the restaurant, the goal of the current study is to determine these activities through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and to propose sustainable sales enhancing strategies according to menu management stages. Accordingly, data of 166 menu items in 6 food groups (soups, appetizers and salads, hot starters, pan dishes and main courses, rice and pasta, desserts) in the menu of a luxury restaurant for December 2020 operating in Antalya were included in DEA. Performance of the menu items in six different food groups in the menu was analyzed by determining selling price, fixed costs and variable costs as input variables, while popularity and gross profit are used as output ones. Results imply that the most efficient food group was soups, while pan and main dishes were those with the lowest activity levels. Following the study results, the strategies to be considered in increasing the menu performance according to the menu management stages depending on the menu item efficiency were proposed. Paper concludes with some useful recommendations to the service providers and practitioners
The Impact of Turkey's Natural Gas Distribution Tender Process on the Current Deficit
Get PDFThe main factors that increase the energy demand of countries are the rate of ownership of energy resources and their level of development. Since Turkey is a developing country and does not have sufficient energy resources, it is a net foreign-dependent country in energy. In this study, the factors that increase the natural gas demand in Turkey due to the neo-liberal economic policies implemented in the recent period and the effects of the increasing demand on the balance of payments are examined. Turkey's natural gas distribution tenders in recent years have further increased the foreign dependency ratio in energy, which is already at a high level. To make the economic development sustainable, it is of great importance to ensure the current account balance, which is the most important item in the balance of foreign payments. The demand for natural gas, which is one of the most important import items of Turkey, which aims to develop in the economy, cannot be met by domestic resources, so the balance of payments is adversely affected. With this study, it has been revealed that there is a causal link between the increasing natural gas demand in our country and the current account deficit, which cannot be closed
Examining the Impact of Career Coaching Practices on Career Decision Self-Efficacy and Career Stress Levels of University Students: The Case of Izmir Katip Çelebi University
Get PDFThe choices made by university students in the process of making career decisions are one of the most important decisions they make in their lives. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of career coaching practices on the career decision self-efficacy and career stress levels of university students. The sample of the study is of senior students studying in the Department of Business Administration of Izmir Katip Çelebi University in the 2018-2019 academic year. A total of 24 people were taken to the study, including 12 (6 females and 6 males) in the study group and 12 (6 females and 6 males) in the control group. Sociodemographic form, Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale (CDSES) and Career Stress Scale (CSC) were used as data collection tools. The students in the experimental group were given a 6-week career coaching program developed by the researcher, each for 60 minutes. Levene's test, t-test and ancova were used in statistical data analysis. As a result of the study, it was determined that the practice of career coaching increases the career decision self-efficacy of the students in the working group and reduces their level of career stress.
IFRS Implications of Covid 19 on Financial Reports: BIST 100 Analysis
Get PDFCompanies which are one of the most important actors in the economic system are expected to be affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in many ways. This article investigates how these selected companies disclose financial information regarding the going concern, financial assets and revenue of company, impairment of tangible and intangible assets, stocks, provisions and liabilities and how the companies make accounting estimates to account for the uncertainty environment that has arisen because of pandemic on their financial reports.
The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which disclosures to be included in the financial reports of the companies in the Borsa Istanbul (BIST) 100 Index are affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of Turkish Financial Reporting Standards (TFRS) and to make sectoral evaluations and comparisons. For this purpose, the data needed by the content analysis method from the financial reports of the 100 companies included in the BIST 100 Index for the years 2020 and 2021 in the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) was obtained.
The findings reveal that the companies took utmost care in disclosing information and impact of Covid-19 in their financial reports. It has been observed that the vast majority of companies have made disclosures about the impact of Covid-19 in at least one category in their financial reports. But these disclosures are quite limited, stereotypes are included in the disclosures and there are sectoral and inter-year differences
Socially Responsible Human Resource Management and Turnover Intention Relations: Does Employer Brand Matter?
Get PDFSince high employee turnover rates have emerged as one of the main problems in the tourism sector, the aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between socially responsible human resource management (SR-HRM), employer brand and employee turnover intention. The paper also aims to investigate whether employees’ employer brand perceptions moderate the relationship between SR-HRM and turnover intentions. An empirical study is conducted on hospitality sector. Quantitative research method is used by collecting questionnaires from 209 employees working in five-star hotels in Turkey. Based on the structural equation modelling the results of the study indicated that SR-HRM practices influenced employees’ turnover intentions. Furthermore, interpreted organizational identity image (IOII), which is considered a sub-dimension of employer brand in the study, has a moderate effect on the relationship between the SR-HRM perceptions of employees and their turnover intentions. Major contribution of this research is that there is limited amount of research is available attempting to measure employer brand perceptions and considering the employer brand as moderating variable in the SR-HRM practices and employees’ turnover intention link as well
Examining the Risk Behaviors of Individuals with Ultimatum Game within the Framework of House Money Effect
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to find out the behavior of the economic individual from the assumption of rationality accepted in the standard economic theories and to show that the behavior of the individual is not completely rational and the cognitive capacity is limited. When the assumption of rationality which is the starting point of behavioral economics is questioned, the main aim is not to completely disagree with standard economic theories. On the contrary, it is aimed to support the standard economic theory with a more realistic prediction in the light of experimental methods.
Scope of the study, basic assumptions and concepts in mainstream economics and behavioral economics examined and compared. The basic issues in the psychological foundations of mainstream economics, the processes of behavioral and mainstream economics from the past to the present day, and the behavioral economics literature discussed in detail. Finally, the phenomenon of "House Money Effect" from mental accounting cases was experimentally analyzed with the help of ultimatum game.
Keywords: Behavioral Economics, Ultimatum Game, House Money Effec
A Non-Profit Online Marketplace Platform of Travel Agencies in Turkey: TURSAB Rota
Get PDFTravel and tourism industry have been inevitably affected by the information and communication technologies. Almost all the components in this industry have experienced some serious changes, transformations and impacts. These alterations bring together some opportunities and challenges in its very nature. Consumer demand and consumer behaviour have also been subject to change. That’s why new online e-commerce applications and new business models came into the scene. Business to Business (B2B) sales platforms are one of the examples of this change. There exist some studies about the private sector profit oriented B2Bs in the literature. Nevertheless, there is no example in the field of non-profit basis associations. The basic objective of the current study is to introduce such an example in Turkey founded by TURSAB (Association of Turkish Travel Agencies). The legal fundamentals of TURSAB, the foundation process of Rota platform, the contents of Rota and the member travel agencies’ website integration types were examined in accordance with this purpose. The introductory texts and data of this preliminary research were provided from the team members working for Rota platform. The estimations of these team members are mainly the internationalization of the platform in due course and the extension of authentic tours