Academic freedom, higher education, Turkey

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2016) Denial of academic freedom exposed: the case of academics for peace in Turkey. [Working Paper]

Company survival, rugged fitness landscape, firm heterogeneity, R&D, NK model

Trushin, Eshref ORCID: 0000-0001-9058-4262 and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2020) Intra-industry firm heterogeneity, sub-optimal adaptation and exit hazard: a fitness landscape approach to firm survival and learning. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 30 (5). pp. 494-515. ISSN 1043-8599 (Print), 1476-8364 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2020.1766655)

Contract theory, treatment effect, R&D subsidy, innovation, additionality,

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Trushin, Eshref (2018) Asymmetric information and heterogeneous effects of R&D subsidies: evidence on R&D investment and employment of R&D personel. [Working Paper]

Diversity, complexity, firm survival, R&D, ecosystem

Trushin, Eshref and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2018) Ecosystem complexity, firm learning and survival: UK evidence on intra-industry age and size diversity as exit hazards. [Working Paper]

EU enlargement, economic costs and benefits of integration, migration, EU-Turkey relations,

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2008) Economic implications of Turkish EU membership: the advantages of tying one's hands. [Working Paper]

EU membership, Turkey, European Union, policy entrepreneurship, EU conditionality, credible commitments, democratization reforms

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Yankaya, Dilek (2008) Policy entrepreneurship, policy opportunism, and EU conditionality: The AKP and TÜSİAD experience in Turkey. Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, 21 (4). pp. 581-601. ISSN 0952-1895 (Print), 1468-0491 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2008.00414.x)

EU, Turkey, accession

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2010) Open-ended membership prospect and commitment credibility: Explaining the deadlock in EU–Turkey accession negotiations. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 48 (4). pp. 967-991. ISSN 0021-9886 (Print), 1468-5965 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02082.x)

Economic growth, Government education expenditure, Human capital

Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi, Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Yew, Siew Ling (2017) Government education expenditures and economic growth: a meta-analysis. B. E. Journal of Macroeconomics. ISSN 2194-6116 (Print), 1935-1690 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2016-0109)

Economic growth; Government size; Government expenditure; Government consumption; Meta-analysis; Evidence synthesis;

Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi, Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Yew, Siew Ling (2016) Does government size affect per-capita income growth? A Hierarchical meta-regression analysis. Economic Record, 93 (300). pp. 142-171. ISSN 0013-0249 (Print), 1475-4932 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12307)

Endogenous growth, Capital accumulation, Technological progress, Growth models, Innovation

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2016) Modeling growth: exogenous, endogenous and Schumpeterian growth models. [Working Paper]

European Union, Turkey, EU membership

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2008) The Turkish economy and the EU connection: the case for moving beyond engineered uncertainty. In: Hug, Adam, (ed.) Turkey in Europe: the economic case for Turkish membership of the European Union. Foreign Policy Centre, London, UK, pp. 26-36. ISBN 9781905833139

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2006) The economic dimension of Turkey's EU membership: a stock-taking exercise at the start of accession negotiations. In: Joseph, Joseph S., (ed.) Turkey and the European Union: Internal Dynamics and External Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke; New York, pp. 16-41. ISBN 9781905833139

Financial distress; competition; leverage; hazard modelling

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Solomon, Edna and Zeynalov, Ayaz (2020) Leverage, Competition, and Financial Distress Hazard: Non-Monotonic Effects in the Presence of Agency Costs. [Working Paper]

Foreign direct investment, spatial dependence, agglomeration, Vietnam

Esiyok, Bulent and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2015) A spatial regression approach to FDI in Vietnam: province-level evidence. The Singapore Economic Review (ser). ISSN 0217-5908 (Print), 1793-6837 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590815501155)

Innovation, R&D, Employment, Productivity, Public Policy

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2018) Innovation, job creation and productivity: implications for public policy. [Working Paper]

Innovation, R&D, Survival, Productivity

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Vivarelli, Marco (2020) Innovation, firm survival and productivity: The state of the art. [Working Paper]

Innovation, R&D, survival, productivity

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Vivarelli, Marco ORCID: 0000-0002-8746-9324 (2020) Innovation, firm survival and productivity: the state of the art. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 30 (5). pp. 433-467. ISSN 1043-8599 (Print), 1476-8364 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2020.1828509)

Innovation, employment, technological change, labour demand, meta-analysis

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi and Solomon, Edna (2017) Technological innovation and employment in derived labour demand models: a hierarchical meta-regression analysis. Journal of Economic Surveys, 32 (1). pp. 50-82. ISSN 0950-0804 (Print), 1467-6419 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12187)

Innovation; Technology adoption; Employment; Systematic review; Meta-analysis

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Mitra, Arup (2017) Technology adoption and employment in less developed countries: a mixed-method systematic review. World Development, 96. pp. 1-18. ISSN 0305-750X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.03.015)

Intellectual property rights, economic growth, innovation, technology diffusion, meta-analysis

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa, Luong, Hoang M. and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2021) Does intellectual property protection deliver economic benefits? A multi-outcome meta-regression analysis of the evidence. [Working Paper] (Submitted)

Knowledge externalities, R&D spillovers, productivity, public policy, meta-analysis

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi and Luong, Hoang M. (2019) What do we know about R&D spillovers and productivity? Meta-analysis evidence on heterogeneity and statistical power. Research Policy, 49 (1):103866. ISSN 0048-7333 (Print), 1873-7625 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.103866)

Knowledge externalities, R&D spillovers, productivity, public policy, meta-analysis,

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa and Luong, Hoang Minh (2018) What do we know about R&D spillovers and productivity? Meta-analysis on heterogeneity and statistical power. [Working Paper]

Labor, Human resources, Population, Personnel economics, Work

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2019) Innovation, technology adoption and employment: Evidence synthesis. In: Zimmermann, Klaus F., (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 1-23. ISBN 9783319573656 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_2-1)

R&D subsidy; additionality; information asymmetry; risk version; entropy balancing

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Trushin, Eshref ORCID: 0000-0001-9058-4262 (2022) Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums. Economics of Innovation and New Technology. pp. 1-26. ISSN 1043-8599 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2022.2119563)

R&D; Innovation; Firm dynamics; Survival analysis;

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Trushin, Eshref and Solomon, Edna (2016) A firm-level dataset for analyzing entry, exit, employment and R&D expenditures in the UK: 1997–2012. Data in Brief, 8. pp. 153-157. ISSN 2352-3409 (Print), 2352-3409 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2016.05.028)

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Trushin, Eshref and Solomon, Edna (2016) Inverted-U relationship between R&D intensity and survival: evidence on scale and complementarity effects in UK data. Research Policy, 45 (7). pp. 1474-1492. ISSN 0048-7333 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2016.04.007)

R&D; Knowledge capital; Productivity; Meta-analysis

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Trushin, Eshref, Solomon, Edna and Guidi, Francesco ORCID: 0000-0002-2682-189X (2016) R&D and productivity in OECD firms and industries: a hierarchical meta-regression analysis. Research Policy, 45 (10). pp. 2069-2086. ISSN 0048-7333 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2016.08.001)

R&D; knowledge capital; productivity; meta-analysis;

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Trushin, Esref, Solomon, Edna M. and Guidi, Francesco ORCID: 0000-0002-2682-189X (2015) R&D and productivity in OECD firms and industries: a hierarchical meta-regression analysis. [Working Paper]

Solomon, Edna M., Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Guidi, Francesco ORCID: 0000-0002-2682-189X and Trushin, Esref (2015) Variations in the effect of R&D investment on firm productivity: UK evidence. [Working Paper]

South-Eastern Europe, stock markets, cointegration, correlation, diversification

Guidi, Francesco ORCID: 0000-0002-2682-189X and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2014) An analysis of South-Eastern European stock markets: evidence on cointegration and portfolio diversification benefits. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 30. pp. 119-136. ISSN 1042-4431 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2014.01.007)

The greater China region; Cointegration; Rolling windows; Conditional correlation; Diversification

Guidi, Francesco ORCID: 0000-0002-2682-189X , Savva, Christos S. and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2016) Dynamic co-movements and diversification benefits: The case of the Greater China region, the UK and the US equity markets. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 35. pp. 59-78. ISSN 1042-444X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2016.04.002)

Treatment effect, R&D subsidy, innovation, additionality, UK

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Trushin, Eshref (2018) Sources of heterogeneity in the impact of subsidies on R&D investment: Evidence from R&D-active UK firms. [Working Paper] (Submitted)

Treatment effect, R&D subsidy, innovation, additionality, entropy balancing, contract theory, Schumpeterian models

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Trushin, Eshref (2021) Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: Effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums. In: Royal Economic Society (RES) 2021 Annual Conference, 12-14 April 2021, Virtual. (Submitted)

Turkey, EU, European Union

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2008) [Reviews] Turkey and the European Union: prospects for a difficult encounter. South European Society and Politics, 13 (2). pp. 255-256. ISSN 1743-9612 (electronic) 1360-8746 (paper) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13608740802159004)

Turkey, economic policy, AKP government

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2008) Turkey, between West and East: Turkish economic policy under the AKP government [La Turchia fra Occidente e Oriente: la politica economica della Turchia durante il governo dell'Akp]. Biblioteca della Libertà, 43 (191). ISSN 2035-5866

Turkey; governance; elections

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2015) On Turkish elections and the political economy of state-orchestrated violence. [Working Paper]

aid, anchoring, bargaining, conditionality, European Union, Euro-Med Partnership, free trade areas, policy reform, Mediterranean Partnership

Tovias, Alfred and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2004) Can the EU anchor policy reform? The case of the Euro-Med Partnership. European Union Politics, 5 (4). pp. 395-418. ISSN 1465-1165 (Print), 1741-2757 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116504047310)

cointegration, money demand, stability, Turkey, base money targets, monetary policy

Halicioglu, Ferda and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2005) On stability of the demand for money in a developing OECD country: the case of Turkey. Global Business and Economics Review, 7 (2/3). pp. 203-213. ISSN 1097-4954 (Print), 1745-1329 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1504/GBER.2005.007616)

corporate governance, governance, networks, economics, power asymmetry, investment, economic governance and foreign aid, economic governance and regulation

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Sunderland, David (eds.) (2011) Does economic governance matter?: Governance institutions and outcomes. In: Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Sunderland, David, (eds.) New Directions in Modern Economics . Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 978-0-85793-176-4 (hbk), 978-0-85793-177-1 (ebk)

corporate governance, institutional quality, macroeconomic stability, Turkey

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Ararat, Melsa (2006) Does macroeconomic performance affect corporate governance? Evidence from Turkey. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 14 (4). pp. 325-348. ISSN 0964-8410 (Print), 1467-8683 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2006.00510.x)

corruption, economic growth, meta-analysis, systematic reviews,

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2013) Corruption’s direct effects on per-capita income growth: a meta-analysis. Journal of Economic Surveys, 28 (3). pp. 472-490. ISSN 0950-0804 (Print), 1467-6419 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12035)

dictatorship, Turkey, policy Change

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2018) Deconstructing European appeasement of dictatorship in Turkey: Policy change is required urgently. [Working Paper]

economic governance, economic perfromance, institutional quality, power asymmetry, reputational penalties, governance and investment, governance quality and foreign aid, governance quality and regulation

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Sunderland, David (2011) Does economic governance matter? New contributions to the debate. In: Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Sunderland, David, (eds.) Does economic governance matter?: Governance institutions and outcomes. New Directions in Modern Economics . Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1-29. ISBN 978-0-85793-176-4 (hbk), 978-0-85793-177-1 (ebk)

economic growth, innovation, Intellectual property rights; meta-analysis; technology diffusion

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa ORCID: 0000-0002-1930-9177 , Luong, Hoang M. ORCID: 0000-0003-4571-2178 and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2022) Does intellectual property protection deliver economic benefits? A multi‐outcome meta‐regression analysis of the evidence. Journal of Economic Surveys, 35 (5). pp. 1477-1509. ISSN 0950-0804 (Print), 1467-6419 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12489)

economic growth, spatial dependence, regional convergence, GMM

Esiyok, Bulent and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2017) Spatial dependence in the growth process and implications for convergence rate: evidence on Vietnamese provinces. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 23 (1). pp. 51-65. ISSN 1354-7860 (Print), 1469-9648 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2017.1351764)

economic growth; Government size; Government expenditure; Government consumption; meta-analysis; evidence synthesis;

Awawoyi, Sefa, Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Yew, Siew Ling (2015) Does government size affect per-capita income growth? A hierarchical meta-regression analysis. [Working Paper]

economics of regulation, European public policy, regulatory quality, network industries

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2009) Regulatory quality and performance in EU network industries: Evidence on telecommunications, gas and electricity. Journal of Public Policy, 29 (3). pp. 347-370. ISSN 0143-814X (Print), 1469-7815 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X09990109)

financial distress, competition, leverage, hazard modelling

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Solomon, Edna M. and Zeynalov, Ayaz (2021) Leverage, competition and financial distress hazard: implications for capital structure in the presence of agency costs. Economic Modelling, 108:105740. ISSN 0264-9993 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105740)

foreign direct investment, spatial dependence, conglomeration, Vietnam

Esiyok, Bulent and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2011) Foreign direct investment in provinces: A spatial regression approach to FDI in Vietnam. [Working Paper]

governance, quality, Europeanization, EU conditionality, Central and Eastern Europe

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2013) Europeanization, EU conditionality, and governance quality: Empirical evidence on Central and Eastern European countries. International Studies Quarterly, 57 (1). pp. 41-51. ISSN 0020-8833 (Print), 1468-2478 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/isqu.12035)

government education expenditure; government health expenditure; human capital; economic growth;

Churchill, Sefa Awawoyi, Yew, Siew Ling and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2015) Effects of government education and health expenditures on economic growth: a meta-analysis. [Working Paper]

innovation, competition, corporate governance, two-way cluster-robust estimation

Hashem, Nawar and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2012) Product-market competition, corporate governance and innovation: evidence on US-listed firms. Munich Research Papers in Economics (MPRA) Working Paper. (doi:MPRA Paper 37454)

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 and Hashem, Nawar (2012) Market concentration, corporate governance and innovation: partial and combined effects in US-listed firms. Journal of Governance and Regulation, 1 (3/2). p. 199. ISSN 2220-9352 (Print), 2306-6784 (Online)

innovation; post-entry performance; R&D; survival analysis;

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Trushin, Eshref, Solomon, Edna M. and Guidi, Francesco ORCID: 0000-0002-2682-189X (2015) Inverted-U relationship between innovation and survival: evidence from firm-level UK data. [Working Paper]

international migration, ethics, human rights, economic development, politics, social cohesion welfare, international movement of labour, economics of free movement, ethics for free movement, governance of free movement

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2007) The ethics, economics and governance of free movement. In: Pécoud, Antoine and de Guchteneire, Paul, (eds.) Migration without Borders. Social Science Studies series . UNESCO Publishing / Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, pp. 65-94. ISBN 978-92-3-104024-5

liberalisation, network industries, second-best, public policy, European Union, price convergence, market power, price transparency

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2009) Liberalisation in a world of second best: evidence on European network industries. Munich Personal RePEc Archive. (Unpublished) (doi:MPRA Paper ID Code: 17873)

network industry, liberalisation, efficiency, investment

Flacher, David, Jennequin, Hugues and Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2009) Liberalisation in network industries. In: Frangakis, Marica, Hermann, Christoph, Huffschmid, Jörg and Lóránt, Károly, (eds.) Privatisation against the European Social Model: A Critique of European Policies and Proposals for Alternatives. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 112-128. ISBN 9780230224094 (hbk)

political economy; Middle East;

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2015) The Paris attack: people are made to pay for disastrous government policies. [Working Paper]

technological change, markups, labour share, elasticity of substitution

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2024) Effects of innovation and markups on employment and labour share in OECD industries. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 71. pp. 221-234. ISSN 0954-349X (Print), 1873-6017 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2024.07.011)

technological change; market power; labour market institutions, inequality

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa, Luong, Hoang and Rodriguez, Marcos (2022) Market power, technological innovation and income inequalities: A structural equation modeling approach. [Working Paper] (In Press)

technological change; markups; labour share; simultaneous equations

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2024) Innovation, market power and the labour share: evidence from OECD industries. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 203:123388. pp. 1-21. ISSN 0040-1625 (Print), 1873-5509 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123388)

technological innovation; markups; labour share; simultaneous equations

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 (2024) Innovation, market power and the labour share: evidence from OECD industries. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 203:123388. pp. 1-21. ISSN 0040-1625 (Print), 1873-5509 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123388)

treatment effect; R&D; innovation; UK

Ugur, Mehmet ORCID: 0000-0003-3891-3641 , Trushin, Esref and Solomon, Edna M. (2015) UK and EU subsidies and private R&D investment: Is there input additionality? [Working Paper]