The relationship between long-term portfolio investments and growth in the context of asset characteristics and development level

İbrahim Halil SUGÖZÜ

This study investigates the linkage between portfolio investment and economic growth in 18 developed and 27 developing countries. Furthermore, it compares and analyzes interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing assets and the economic development level. The results of our analysis show that long-term portfolio investment is positively associated with economic growth in developing countries. Long-term portfolio investment through non-interest-bearing assets contribute more to economic growth in developing countries. However, stocks and long-term bond portfolio investment are unrelated to economi ...More

Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Kyrgyzstan

Kamalbek KARIMŞAKOV

Employment vulnerability is considered as working under inadequate conditions. This research examined the impact of employment vulnerability on earnings with special reference to gender-based differences. Analyses were based on panel data for 2010-2013 and 2016 from the household survey. A panel data fixed-effects model with instrumental variable within the Lewbel (2012) method was applied to estimate an earnings equation. Results indicates negative impact of employment vulnerability on earnings. Women experienced this negative effect more severely. Given these empirical findings, government l ...More

The Role of Psychological Resilience in Athletic Injury Recovery and Performance

The essential aim of this research study is to determine the role of psychological resilience in athletic injury recovery also that performance. This research study is based on the primary data analysis for measuring the research study using questions wise data and measuring the analysis through smart PLS software and generating informative results. The descriptive statistic analysis, the indicator correlation, the significant analysis, and the co-linearity statistic analysis between them. The result also presents that smart PLS Algorithm model between dependent and independent variables. Psyc ...More

Examining the Effects of Mindfulness Training on Stress and Anxiety in Sport

The study aims to determine if stress and anxiety reduction techniques may enhance sports performance. We will do a complete assessment of earlier research on mindfulness training and sporting performance to answer this issue. This research study is based on primary data to determine whether the research study used smart PLS Software and generated informative results. The research examines how mindfulness affects stress, anxiety, and attention and how these elements affect athletic performance. We will also examine how stress and anxiety affect athletes' performance and how mindfulness trainin ...More

Exploring the impact of information technology on motivation and performance in sports: a psychological perspective

The essential purpose of this research study is to determine the impact of information technology related to motivation and performance in sports. This research study depends upon psychological perspective research based on the primary data analysis to determine the research study develop different questions related to information technology and motivation and the sport's performance. These questions fulfill by different participants who know information technology and motivation. Information technology is the main independent variable, motivation is the mediator variable, and the performance ...More

Understanding the Role of Self-Efficacy in Sports Performance: A Longitudinal Study

The primary goal of this research project is to evaluate the influence of self-efficacy in athletic performance. This longitudinal study gives primary research data analysis to identify the research study employed useful research questions connected to self-efficacy and sports performance. This question is dependent on whether it is open-ended or closed-ended. The research study employed SPSS software for this aim, and the outcomes were useful. The descriptive statistic analysis, one-way ANOVA test analysis, variance component analysis, chi-square analysis, and the initial main test between de ...More

Capital liberalization, growth and moral hazard: Lessons from the global financial crisis

İbrahim Halil SUGÖZÜ

The 2008 global crisis, initiated in the USA, a developed country, is significant as it's the last global crisis caused by capital flows. This study investigates the link between capital account liberalization and economic growth during the 2008 global crisis in 105 countries, including moral hazard. Furthermore, it considers portfolio equity and debt flows as asset characteristics and tests two moral hazard channels (i.e., sudden stop and credit booms) employing the OLS estimation technique. The findings show that capital inflows promote growth, with portfolio equity flows having more contrib ...More

The Effect of Ownership Structure on Financial Reporting Timeliness: An Implementation on Borsa Istanbul

Gökhan ÖZER

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the influence of corporate and foreign ownership structures on the timeliness of financial reporting. The sample of the study consists of 2,204 observations obtained from 208 companies trading in Borsa Istanbul between 2008 and 2019. Multiple regression analysis was conducted, and the relationship between ownership structure and financial reporting timelinesses was investigated. The findings indicate that corporate and foreign ownership are significantly and negatively associated with financial reporting timeliness. Robustness analysis was car ...More

The effects of the investment decisions of telecommunications firms on their financial performance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Gökhan ÖZER

In this paper we examine how the financial performance of telecommunications firms is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and investigate the role of capital expenditures in this relationship. The full sample consists of 383 unique telecommunications firms from 72 countries. Empirical models are estimated using ordinary least squares regression with the Driscoll–Kraay standard errors method. We find that the financial performance of telecommunications firms, on average, decreased slightly during the pandemic period. However, firms with higher capital expenditures have increased their financial ...More

Understanding the Role of Self-Efficacy in Sports Performance: A Longitudinal Study

The primary goal of this research project is to evaluate the influence of self-efficacy in athletic performance. This longitudinal study gives primary research data analysis to identify the research study employed useful research questions connected to self-efficacy and sports performance. This question is dependent on whether it is open-ended or closed-ended. The research study employed SPSS software for this aim, and the outcomes were useful. The descriptive statistic analysis, one-way ANOVA test analysis, variance component analysis, chi-square analysis, and the initial main test between de ...More

Does Wagner’s Hypothesis Explain the Dynamics of Health Expenditures in Transition Countries?

Zamira ÖSKÖNBAYEVA

he purpose of this study is to analyze the short and long run causal relationship between public health expenditure and GDP per capita in transition economies within the context of the Wagner hypothesis. For the period 2000-2020, the empirical analysis was conducted using a dataset covering 22 transition countries: Latvia, Belarus, Czechia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Estonia, Croatia, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Ukraine, Armenia, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Romania, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Kazakhstan. Wagner emphasizes that ...More

Corporate environmental, social, and governance activities and financial reporting quality: An international investigation

Gökhan ÖZER

This paper examines the impact of firms' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities on financial reporting quality (FRQ). The study uses 45,877 firm-year observations from 65 countries between 2003 and 2021. In the research model, firm characteristics and macroeconomic and institutional structure characteristics of the countries are controlled for. This study finds that firms with higher ESG scores have higher FRQ. Additionally, our mediation analysis indicates that financial distress costs serve as a crucial mechanism through which ESG influences FRQ. Our findings are robust after ...More