Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ercan Eren Author-Workplace-Name: Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi İktisadi İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, İktisat Bölümü Title: 2008 Krizi ve Makroiktisatta Bazı Sorgulamalar: Evrimci Makro İktisada Doğru mu? Abstract: In the periods of economic crisis, search for new paradigms and methodological reconsiderations intensify in the mainstream economics. In this study, the insuciency of the equilibrium concept in economics is examined. Recently, one of the most important debates in economics is the failure of prediction of the Global Recession of 2008. It is argued that the models that are based on the out-ofequilibrium concept with an evolutionary perspective could have exhibited a much better predictive performance than the current ones, those based on the concept of equilibrium. In this study, after having searched for the origins of the equilibrium concept in the history of economic thought, the endogeneity of money and nancial crises literatures are going to be presented. It will also be interesting to point out the negative nominal interest rate concept. Finally, recent developments in the economic methodology, in parallel to the developments in the computer science will be examined. Classification-JEL: F00,F30,G00,G10,K00,K20,M00,M20,O10 Keywords: Equilibrium, Evolution, Economic Thought, Simulation.Journal: Yildiz Social Science Review Pages: 1-20 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 DOI: File-URL: https://yssr.yildiz.edu.tr/storage/upload/pdfs/1628065358-tr.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:aye:journl:v:2:y:2016:i:1:p:1-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kemal Kurtuluş Author-Workplace-Name: Zirve University Faculty of Economic Administration Sciences, Gaziantep TURKEY Author-Name: Sema Kurtuluş Author-Workplace-Name: Istanbul University School of Business, Istanbul, TURKEY. Author-Name: Diren Bulut Author-Workplace-Name: Istanbul University School of Business, Istanbul, TURKEY. Title: Benefit Segmentation of Internet Users and Their Addictive Behavior Abstract: The dominance of technology is in consumers' daily life. Some of them prefer to use technology for business purposes; some integrate their basic needs of entertainment and fun over the internet and social media usage. This research aims to understand the different levels of integration and the deepness of the Internet users' needs and connection of online time, which might be an indication of online addictions and addictive behavior. With this purpose internet user groups are compared by the main purpose of the internet and social media usages. It is also aimed to dene the behavioral differences based on the leading addictive signs of internet users. Classification-JEL: F00,F30,G00,G10,K00,K20,M00,M20,O10 Keywords: Internet Usage, Internet Addiction, Benefit Base Segmentation, Social Online Be- haviorJournal: Yildiz Social Science Review Pages: 21-30 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 DOI: File-URL: https://yssr.yildiz.edu.tr/storage/upload/pdfs/1628065662-en.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:aye:journl:v:2:y:2016:i:1:p:21-30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ahmed Seid Hassen Author-Workplace-Name: Marmara University Department of Economics, İstanbul, Turkey Title: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Environmental Attributes of a Cut Flower in Ethiopia: A Choice Experiment Approach Abstract: The paper aims at valuing consumers' willingness to pay for environmental attributes of a cut flower using choice experiment and hence identifying the presence of a hypothetical market for environmental friendly flowers. Considering the local and global environmental impacts of floriculture, two environmental attributes of a cut flower namely, Eco-labeling (EHPEA-CP label) and Carbone footprint together with a price attribute were selected for choice experiment. Survey data from 200 randomly selected consumers were employed and two multinomial logit models and a random parameter logit model were used for estimations. The estimated results from all models reveled that respondents had the willingness to pay for both environmental attributes of a cut flower and they were willing to pay 1.98 birr and 10 birr for eco-label and carbon footprint attributes of a cut flower respectively, valuing carbon footprint more than eco-labeling. Based on the welfare estimates, consumers were willing to pay 10.47 birr for a bronze labeled and carbon neutral cut flower; 12.45 birr for a flower with silver brand and medium (neutral) carbon footprint and 24.43 birr for brand gold and carbon saving (low) flower. Thus, environmental friendly flowers mayfind a niche market in Ethiopia. Classification-JEL: F00,F30,G00,G10,K00,K20,M00,M20,O10 Keywords: Environmental attributes; choice experiment; willingness to pay (WTP); cut flowerJournal: Yildiz Social Science Review Pages: 31-46 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 DOI: File-URL: https://yssr.yildiz.edu.tr/storage/upload/pdfs/1628066726-en.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:aye:journl:v:2:y:2016:i:1:p:31-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yunus Sözen Author-Workplace-Name: Özyeğin University Departmant of Political Science and International Relations Title: Reason, Passion and Participation: Paradoxes of Deliberative Democracy Abstract: Deliberative democrats' understanding of democracy includes both participation and discussions before making collective decisions. However, there is a tension between the particular ways they conceptualize participation (as extensive and active) and public discussions (as deliberations under the precepts of public reason). This paper challenges the feasibility of deliberative democracy in the following ways: 1) by demonstrating the inability of deliberative democrats to provide a convincing account of why their conceptualizations of participation and deliberation should occur simultaneously; 2) by delineating, through historical and theoretical evidence, that what should reasonably be expected to occur simultaneously with active and extensive participation is not reason governed, but passion-driven public deliberations; and, 3) by arguing that these two aspects (extensive participation and public reason) may have adverse effects on each other. Classification-JEL: F00,F30,G00,G10,K00,K20,M00,M20,O10 Keywords: Deliberative democracy, Passions, Public Reason, ParticipationJournal: Yildiz Social Science Review Pages: 47-64 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 DOI: File-URL: https://yssr.yildiz.edu.tr/storage/upload/pdfs/1628067072-en.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:aye:journl:v:2:y:2016:i:1:p:47-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kutay Hakkı Çilingiroğlu Author-Workplace-Name: Yldz Technical University, Senior Software Developer, ISTANBUL, Title: Bertrand Competition with Network Eects and Switching Costs: An Agent-based Computational Approach Abstract: Economics is a complex system that requires different approaches for analysis. I analyzed switching costs and network effects together with a new simulation approach to modeling systems composed of autonomous and interacting agents. Agent based computational economics is one of the simulation tools and an efficient tool box for complex economic systems. I developed an agent based computational model of duopolistic competition to analyze how the network effects and switching costs shape competitive outcomes by simula-tion methods. Classification-JEL: F00,F30,G00,G10,K00,K20,M00,M20,O10 Keywords: Agent-based Computational Economics, Switching Costs, Network Effects, SimulationJournal: Yildiz Social Science Review Pages: 65-86 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 DOI: File-URL: https://yssr.yildiz.edu.tr/storage/upload/pdfs/ File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:aye:journl:v:2:y:2016:i:1:p:65-86