Purpose-High-technology exports, with their high added value, are considered as one of the determinants of growth in recent years. The increasing competitiveness of developing countries in international markets depends on the country's capacity to produce and export high-tech products. Therefore, the export of high technology products is especially important for the economic growth and development of the countries. In this study, the effects of the causality analysis on the economic growth of high-technology exports in Turkey has been investigated. Methodology-Granger Causality Analysis was used to determine the direction of the relationship and the results of the variance decomposit ion were evaluated. VAR model is primarily applied in the model in order to determine the short-term causality relationship between the variables while the analysis is performed with the Granger causality, impulse-response and variance decomposition methods. Findings-After 1980, Turkey has transitioned from import substitution to export-oriented industrialization strategies and largely completed the liberalization process during 1990s. Important policies for industrialization have been implemented by improving the export structure within the scope of competitive advantages. When the impulse-response and variance decomposition results are evaluated together, the outcome is consistent with the Granger Causality Test results where high-technology export is effective on GDP. Conclusion-In conclusion, it was found out that high technology exports affect economic growth. Therefore, Turkey has to put more emphasis to increase high technology shares in its exports and incentivize high technology production.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth. Although there is no consensus on the relationship between foreign direct investment flows and economic growth in the literature, a growing view in recent years shows that foreign direct investments have contribution on economic growth. These investments act as a main factor for the economic growth of both developed and developing countries. Panel data analysis is used for the empirical study for evaluating the relationship between foreign direct investments and GDP. Data from 14 OECD countries for GDP and foreign direct investments for the 1990-2017 period is used. According to the results of the study, a positive relationship between foreign direct investments and economic growth was identified.

The use of counterfeits of luxury brands has become a phenomenon in Turkey in recent years since they are the most significant facilitator for consumers to reach luxury consuming products. Limited number of studies in the literature shows that consumers prefer counterfeits of luxury brands for a variety of reasons. Within this study, it is believed that perceived value of products in consumers' minds and consumers' materialistic tendencies demonstrating the worth attached to physical assets could have an impact on their purchase intention of counterfeits of luxury brands. Within this framework, this study aims to identify the effect of perceived value on consumer purchase intention of counterfeits of luxury brands and the moderating role of materialism in this effect. Data of the study are being collected through face-to-face survey method with university students who have bought and used counterfeit products before. Exploratory Factor Analysis is carried out for construct validity and reliability of the research model, and relationships between variables are measured with Hierarchical Regression Analysis to test the model. The result expected to be reached based on the findings of the study is to be able to present whether the relationship between consumers' perceived value of counterfeit products and their purchase intention of counterfeits of luxury brands are dependent on consumers' materialistic tendencies. Therefore, it is envisaged that consumers who have high materialistic tendencies will show more purchase intention of counterfeits of luxury brands compared to consumers having low materialistic tendencies when they perceive high value for counterfeit products. However, it was found that materialism did not have any moderating role in the effect of perceived value of counterfeit products on purchase intention of counterfeits of luxury brands.

Startups are the key actors of today’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. They are technology-based firms purposing to grow up rapidly and become scalable in the global market.  The main failure of startups is mostly not to pay attention to market intelligence and customer orientation. Thus they are probably having bankruptcy at short notice. Recently, startups are very popular worldwide and subject to research mostly in the United States of America and other developed countries.  Yet academic studies on startups are very rare in developing countries like Turkey. In this empirical study, the dimensions of market orientation and firm performance of 141 startups operating in Ankara are investigated. The analysis is based on the effects of responsive market orientation and proactive market orientation on financial performance, market performance and innovative performance. It is aimed to obtain results for managerial implications and to contribute to the literature.

Inflation is considered as a monetary phenomenon and its increase is linked with money supply according to the Monetarist view. In other words, the increase in budget deficits leads to an increase in money supply and as a result, inflation rates rise. Inflation is based on fiscal policies rather than monetary policies according to Price Level Fiscal Theory. Accordingly, increasing budget deficits leads to increases in loans, thus causes interest rates to rise and consequently inflation rises as money supply increases. In this study, the relationship between inflation, budget deficit and money supply in Turkey is analyzed using the ARDL bounds testing approach for the 1980-2017 period. According to the empirical results, there was a positive and significant relationship between inflation and budget deficit both in the long and short term.