The purpose of this study is to investigate the magnitude of foreign exchange open positions of manufacturing and service sector companies, to determine the effect of open positions on companies' financial performance and to find out the factors that contribute to the firms' tendency of keeping short foreign exchange position. The analysis conducted on 30 firms for the period spanning from the third quarter of 2012 to the second quarter of 2015 showed that operating profitability of the firms with short foreign exchange position was lower than operating profitability of firms with long foreign exchange position. The performed ANOVA test indicated that companies with short foreign exchange positions were able to increase their overall profitability to the same level as companies with long foreign exchange positions in periods when local currency was overvalued, but exposed to serious losses in periods of local currency devaluation. Applied regression analysis revealed that companies which had short foreign exchange position in the present period had higher liquidity and asset efficiency and lower overall profitability than companies with long foreign exchange position in the previous period.

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Futbol, günümüz dünyasında bir eğlence unsuru olmaktan çıkarak endüstri kolu haline gelmiştir. Bu sporun Türkiye'deki en önemli temsilcileri olan Fenerbahçe ve Galatasaray'ın arasındaki rekabet hem takım düzeyinde sahada hem de şirket düzeyinde borsada yaşanmaktadır. Çalışmanın amacı bu iki futbol takımının yaptıkları karşılaşmalarda aldıkları sonuçların borsada işlem gören hisselerine ait fiyatlara etkisini incelemektir. Takımların kendi sonuçlarının yanı sıra rakibinin aldığı sonuçların da şirketin hisse senedi getirisine etki edip etmediği araştırılmıştır. Kullanılan üç günlük olay etüdü analizi ile maç sonuçlarına ait beklentilerin maçtan bir gün önce, maç sonuçlarının ise maçtan bir gün sonra kümülatif anormal getiri yarattığını göstermiştir. Kümülatif anormal getirinin rakibin elde ettiği sonuçlara göre farklılık göstermediği saptanmıştır.

It is generally assumed that the corporations in emerging markets are more sensitive to financial distress arising from global crisis than their counterparts in developed countries because of a lower level of institutionalization and governance structure. Parent companies need to build effective corporate governance to overcome the effects of a global economic crisis, considering the drawbacks of an emerging market. The study aims to understand the relation between the capital structure of ultimate parent companies with corporate performance of the affiliates in an emerging market, Turkey, for the period between 2008-2013. The paper divides this period into a pre-economic crisis period of 2008-2010 and a post-economic crisis period of 2011-2013. The ANOVA results revealed that business group affiliates had a higher financial performance and firm value and were more innovative compared to the non-affiliates. The regression analysis showed that the degree of control of the group by the affiliated firm was positively associated with firm value for both the years of crisis and those of recovery periods. The analysis also posits that professionalism in management was positively associated with the affiliates' value in recovery periods. Innovativeness was another variable which contributed positively to value.

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