CEE 2010 Annual Conference

20 December 2010, Monday

Rectorate Conference Hall

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

09:00 - 09:30 - Registration

09:30 -09:45 - Welcome Note

Kadri Özçaldıran, Rector (Boğaziçi University)

09:45 - 10:15 - Opening Speech

• Ali Kutan, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

  “Achievements of the Turkish Economy and Policy Challanges Ahead”

10:15- 11:30 - Session 1: Transformation in Macroeconomics

Chair: Refik Erzan (Boğaziçi University)

• İsmail Genç, American University of Sharjah (with Mehmet Balcılar, Eastern Mediterranean University)

  “Turkish Experience with Inflation Targeting”

• Burak Saltoğlu, Boğaziçi University (with Ege Yazgan, Istanbul Bilgi University)

  “The Role of Regime Shifts in the Term Structure of Interest Rates: Further Evidence from an Emerging Market”

• Ozan Hatipoğlu, Boğaziçi University (with Onur Uyar, Boğaziçi University)

  “Estimating Financial Bubbles in Emerging Markets”

11:30-11:45 - Coffee Break

11:45- 13:00 - Session 2: Transformation of State Capacity and Banking

Chair: Burak Saltoğlu (Boğaziçi University)

• Sadık Ünay, Balıkesir University

  “Domestic Transformation and Raison du Monde: Turkey's Nascent Competition State”

• Meryem Duygun Fethi, University of Leicester (with Mohammed Shaban, University of Leicester; Thomas Weyman-Jones, University of Leicester)

  “Turkish Banking Recapitalization and the Financial Crisis: An Efficiency and Productivity Analysis”

• Nur Özkan Günay, Boğaziçi University

  “Risk Management and Performance in Emerging Market Banks During the Post-Crisis Period: The Case of Turkey”

13:00-14:15 - Lunch

14:15- 15:30 - Session 3: Credit Card Markets and Competition

Chair: Ahmet Faruk Aysan (Boğaziçi University)

• Gülfem Karahan, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (with Bahadır Çakmak, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)

  “Credit Cards Market in Turkey”

• Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Boğaziçi University

  “The Failure of Price Competition in the Turkish Credit Card Market”

• Levent Yıldıran, Boğaziçi University

  “Non-price Competition in Credit Card Markets through Bundling and Bank Level Benefits”

15:30-15:45 - Coffee Break

15:45- 17:00 - Session 4: Consumer Behaviors and Regulation in Credit Card Markets

Chair: Levent Yıldıran (Boğaziçi University)

• Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Boğaziçi University

  “Do Credit Card Revolvers Use More Consumer Credit?”

• Güzin Gülsün Akın, Boğaziçi University

  “Competition and Regulation in Credit Card Markets: Evidence from Turkey”

• Alper Alkan, Boğaziçi University

  “Switching Costs in the Turkish Credit Card Market”

17:00-17:15 - Coffee Break

17:15- 18:45 - Panel: Future of Credit Cards market in Turkey and Regulations

Chair: Refik Erzan (Boğaziçi University)

Panelists:

Mehmet Sezgin, (Garanti Bank)

Kenan Alpdündar,  (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)  

Serkan Ülgen, (Yapı Kredi Bank)

Elçin Yanık, (Finansbank)  

18:45-19:00 - Coffee Break

19:00- 20:00 - Keynote Speech: 

İbrahim Turhan, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

20:00-21:30 - Cocktail Prolongé, Natuk Birkan Building, Second Floor