Faculty Projects & Grants

2020

• Ahmet Şensoy
  Title: Dynamics of Emerging FX Markets
  Researchers: Co-Principal Investigator
  Funded by : French Embassy
  Year-Duration : 2020 / 2 months (July-August)

2019

• Ahmet Şensoy
  Title: Dynamic Causality Networks and their Application to Financial Stability
  Researchers: Co-Principal Investigator
  Funded by : TUBITAK
  Year-Duration : 2019 / 2 months (July-August)
• Melis Ceylan
  Received the French-Turkish Research Fellowship in 2019 to visit an academic institution in France and create long-lasting scientific collaborations with French researchers in Marketing and maintain a fruitful relationship between Turkey and France.
• Zeynep Önder
  Title: House Prices and Bank Credit Portfolios in Turkey
  Funded By: TUBITAK
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Year – Duration: March 2019 – March 2020, 95,500 TL.

2018

• Ahmet Şensoy
  Title: Dynamic Causality Networks for EMU Sovereign Debt Markets
  Researchers: Co-Principal Investigator
  Funded by : French Embassy
  Year-Duration : 2018 / 2 months (July-August)
• Zahide Karakitapoğlu-Aygün
  Title: Paternalistic leadership across cultures: Turkey and the U.S.
  Researchers: Zahide Karakitapoğlu-Aygün (Principal investigator)
  Funded by: TUBITAK BIDEB 2219
  Year-Duration: 2018-2019 / 12 months, 30.000 USD

2016

• Başak Tanyeri
  Assistant Professor Başak Tanyeri, for her research on “Organic growth or growth through acquisitions: resilience to crisis”, received Fulbright Visiting Scholar Grant for visit to MIT in 2016.

2015

• Zahide Karakitapoğlu-Aygün
  Title: The effects of paternalistic leaders on their followers and departments: Test of a comprehensive model with mediating and moderating variables.
  Researchers: Zahide Karakitapoğlu-Aygün (Principal investigator), Lale Gümüşlüoğlu (Researcher)
  Funded by: TUBITAK 1001 SOBAG
  Year-Duration: 2015-2016
• Lale Tomruk
  Title: The Effects of Paternalistic Leadership on Their Followers and Departments: Test of a Comprehensive Model with Mediating and Moderating Variables
  Researchers: Researcher
  Funded by  : TUBITAK, Research Grant (1001 SOBAG Project)
  Year-Duration : 2015-2016 (16 months), $47,000.

2014

• Zeynep Önder
  Title: Macroeconomic Volatility and the Role of Foreign Banks in the Emerging Economies
  Funded By: TUBITAK
  Role: Researcher
  Year – Duration October 2014 – July 2015, 42,315 TL.

2011

• Zeynep Önder
  Title: Bank Integration and Business Cycle in the New Member States and Candidate Countries of the European Union
  Funded By: TÜBITAK
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Year – Duration: 15 April 2011 – 15 April 2012, 67,339 TL.

2010

• Lale Tomruk
  Title: Cukurova Marketing Innovation Project
  Role in the project: Provided consultancy to food companies in Mersin-Tarsus Organized Industrial District in preparing their marketing strategies and developing innovative product designs.
  Funded by: Technopolis Group Turkey
  Year – duration: 2010

2009

• Zeynep Önder
  Title: Cross-National Patterns and Predictors of Life-cycle Smoking Behavior
  Funded By: National Institutes of Health
  Role: Consultant
  Year – Duration: August 15, 2009 – July 31, 2014, $70,975.
• Zeynep Önder
  Title: Analysis of Bank Soundness in the New EU Member States and Candidate Countries
  Funded By: TUBITAK
  Role: Researcher
  Year – Duration: February 2009 – February 2011, 42,680 TL.
• Zeynep Önder
  Title: Empirical Analysis of Bank Credits on Regional Development
  Funded By: TUBITAK
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Year – Duration: April 2009 – October 2009, 5,900 TL.

2008

• Zahide Karakitapoğlu-Aygün
  Title: The effects of organizational commitment and transformational leadership on performance and turnover intentions: A cultural perspective on knowledge workers.
  Researchers: Zahide Karakitapoğlu-Aygün (Principal investigator), Lale Gümüşlüoğlu (Researcher)
  Funded by: TUBITAK 1001 SOBAG
  Year-Duration: 2008-2010
• Lale Tomruk
  Title: The Effects of Organizational Commitment and Transformational Leadership on Performance and Turnover Intentions: A Cultural Perspective on Knowledge Workers
  Researchers: Researcher
  Funded by  : TUBITAK, Research Grant (1001 SOBAG Project)
  Year-Duration : 2008-2010 (30 months), $100,000.
• Lale Tomruk
  Title: Public Innovation (Kamuda İnovasyon, Kamin)
  Project: The project was the first to create awareness about innovation in the public sector in Turkey and aimed at development of institutional capacities and systems for a more effective, efficient and transparent public sector. Pilot implementation, and capacity building activities were carried out at the Ministry of Finance.
  Role in the project: Academic Advisor
  Funded by  : Technopolis Group Turkey
  Year-Duration : 2008-2010.

2007

• Zeynep Önder
  Title: Impact of Real Estate Loans on House Values.
  Funded By: TUBITAK
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Year – Duration: November 2007-October 2008, 27,200 YTL.
• Zahide Karakitapoğlu-Aygün
  Title: Self-construals, perceived parenting styles and well-being in different cultural and socio-economic contexts
  Researchers: Zahide Karakitapoğlu-Aygün (Principal investigator)
  Funded by: TUBITAK International Joint Scholarship Program
  Year-Duration: 2000-2001

2004

• Lale Tomruk
  Title: Let’s Support Unwelcome Innovation – EKİN Project (Eski Koye Yeni Adet Getirin)
  Role: Academic Coordinator
  Funded by: World Bank. The project received World Bank award in “Turkey Development Marketplace Competition”.and has been a success as the main goal of “integrating innovation and innovative entrepreneurship in the national education curricula” was achieved. Following the project, and as of fall 2006, innovation is taught at schools throughout the country in the “Technology and Design” course.
  Year-duration: 2004
• Zeynep Önder
  Title: Econometric Analysis of Youth Smoking Behavior in Turkey
  Funded By: World Bank
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Year – Duration: 2004, $4,000.

2002

• Zeynep Önder
  Title: Economics of Tobacco Control in Turkey
  Funded By: World Bank
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Year – Duration: 2002, $5,000.