City indices provide information about the financial stuations of businesses in the region where they were calculated. It is also a guide for investors who want to invest in a situation of uncertainty. The city indices in Turkey, has calculated under the Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST) share indices. On the other hand, many external factors affect the investment decisions of stock market investors. The changes in exchange rates is among the most important of these factors. Accordingly, this interaction was inspired the emergence of this study. In this study, the return and volatility spillover between the Istanbul city index calculated in the BIST City Indices and the daily exchange rate data were investigated. The multivariate VAR-EGARCH model was run between the dates of 02.01.2014-26.02.2020 using the end of daily data. According to the empirical findings obtained from the study, it was observed that negative shocks were more dominant than positive shocks on other variables except for the Istanbul city index. In addition, according to the results of the variance equation in the model, it was concluded that the exchange rates spread volatility on the Istanbul city index.

The success of a health institution is mostly related to efforts of its health care workers. In order to achieve health service delivery goals of the institution, other health care workers are expected to both fulfill their determined tasks and job commitments contribute to their organizations. Considering this critical aspects, it has been lately determined a necessity of scholarly work on scrutinizing health care workers’ job commitments. This study aims to examine the relationship between psychological violence (mobbing) behaviors and levels of job commitment of healthcare employees. Using quantitative methodology, except for doctors and nurses, a survey conducted with 104 health care workers who had been serving in a University Hospital. In the evaluation of the datum, it is drawn upon, frequency analysis, factor analysis, regression and correlation analysis are used. As a result of analyzes performed to determine the relationship between psychological violence and job commitment, there is a positive relationship between “quality of work and life” and “effort”. Also it is found that there is a significant negative relationship between “violance to job reputation and obstruction to selfesteem” and “love to job”.

The rapid development of technology during the 21st century enabled new information sources to emerge, allowing individuals to access more information than they needed. This period, which we describe as the information age, has been enough to over saturate our hunger for knowledge, and caused the emergence of various new technologies in order to manage the overloaded information. Internet, which is one of the important concepts emerging with the development of technology, has become an indispensable part of individuals daily lives today. The opportunities offered by the internet to the digital world have dragged individuals into an uncontrollable exchange of information, enabling the spread of information resources on the digital platform and causing information pollution. With the increase of information pollution, the concept of infobesity has emerged. The concept of infobesity has begun to be used to explain the exposure of individuals to more information than they should get in their daily lives and the negative effects of information obesity. Web 2.0 technologies and smart phones emerging in the information age have provided the access to different dimensions of the information at any time, thus paving the way for the formation of an information invasion. In this age, the existince infobesity, of which impact on individuals is indisputable, is important in this respect. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature by including various opinions and researches about the concept of infobesity, considering that the infobesity concept is a relatively new concept and not studied enough.

In this study, coronavirus outbreak occurring in December 2019 and still ongoing its effects in mid-2020, its impact on Turkeys economy was analyzed in terms of the stock market index and the level of general economic activity. Borsa Istanbul BIST-100 index was used as the price performance of stocks while the Purchasing Managers Index was used to represent the level of general economic activities. Daily data between 23 March - 24 April 2020, a period in which the effects of the coronavirus crisis peaked both in other countries and in our country were used. The findings obtained showed that the application of social distance and lockdown restrictions decreased the level of general economic activities by -0,708 units in the analyzed period, but had no negative impact on stock prices. Overall results showed that lockdown restriction, domestic travel restriction and international travel restriction practices and monetary policy decisions and public expenditure amount significantly correlated with the level of general economic activities. Among these variables, it has been shown that the foreign travel restriction affected the closing price of the BIST-100 stock exchange index by -0,058 and the lowest price by -0,038 units, monetary policy decisions affected the opening price of the stock market index by 0.043, the highest price by 0.035, the lowest price by 0.024 and the closing price by 0.022 units. On the other hand, the restriction on domestic travel mobility, monetary policy decisions and the amount of budget allocated to public spending have a positive effect on the level of economic activities, while the number of new COVID-19 cases announced has been found to be positively associated with the prices of closing, opening, highest and lowest of the stock index. As a result of the findings, it was determined that monetary policy decisions were more effective than public expenditure practice in alleviating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the short term.

The main purpose of the study is not to know that there is no herd behavior in Borsa Istanbul. It is that investors exhibit non-rational cognitive traits. According to the press release of the Capital Markets Board on 04.06.2020, as a result of the surveillance and inspection activities, social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Telegram etc. It is observed that the actions of individuals or persons who do not have permission for investment consultancy and similar capital market activities, among which are authorized by the CMB, continue to lead investors through the membership-based groups established in communication systems. This situation arises whether investors are affected by herd behavior, which is the spread of certain beliefs imposed by various conditions and rules, by a community or group. In order to determine the existence of herd behavior in capital markets, stocks traded in Borsa Istanbul between 2000-2020 / 6 and BIST 100 index as a market indicator were used in the study. Herd behavior was analyzed using the method based on cross-sectional variability of stock returns developed by Christie and Huang (1995) and Chang, Cheng and Khorana (2000). As a result of the study, the hypothesis that in a situation where extreme movements are observed, in other words, the cross section would decrease the standard deviation in descending or rising markets, could not be confirmed and it was concluded that herd behavior was not encountered with the method used in the data set.

This research was carried out to determine the effect of psychological contract perception on organizational commitment. The data of the study were collected from education staff who worked as teachers in private schools continuing education in Isparta city center. In this context, 134 questionnaires from the forms that were delivered to all teachers working in the said schools in digital environment were evaluated. According to the results, a positive and significant relationship was found between the operational psychological contract dimension of the psychological contract and the emotional commitment dimension of the organizational commitment and the continuation commitment dimension. In this context, as the relational and transactional psychological contract perception of the participants increases, their perception of emotional and continuance commitment also increases. It can be stated that the operational and relational contract dimensions of the psychological contract are positive and significant predictors of the emotional and attendance commitment of the organization, and as the participants perceptions of the psychological contract increase, their commitment to the organization will increase. In this context, a positive and significant effect of psychological contract on organizational commitment has been determined. The findings were discussed in line with the literature, and recommendations were made for future studies.

The VIX index, the largest volatility indicator index of the USA, has been derived from the S&P 500 index and has been carefully monitored by international investors since 1993. While the VIX index was previously followed by investors from developed countries, it is now followed by investors who evaluate their investments in developing countries. In this study, it was examined the effect of price movements in the VIX index on the stock markets of the developing (BRICS) countries between the dates of 02.24.2011 and 06.01.2020. Toda Yamamoto causality test was used by using daily closing data. In addition, bilateral results were examined for each variable in the study. Considering the findings obtained from the study, it was observed that the VIX index is in bilateral causality with Russia (RTSI) and South Africa (INVSAF40) stock markets as of the baseline period. On the other hand, it is determined that the price movements in the VIX index have a unilateral causality relationship on India (BSESN) and China (SSEC) indices. However, it has been seen that the VIX index does not have a unilateral or bilateral causal relationship with the Brazilian (BOVESPA) stock market.

Forensic accountants are used in some countries to investigate monetary issues that have been brought to court or have not yet been filed. In Turkey, there are laws related expertise; however, there isn’t legal regulation on forensic accounting yet. In this study, the expertise activity is compared with forensic accountancy and the shortcomings of the expertise law in terms of forensic accountancy have been revealed. In addition, examples of possible dispute situations are given within the scope of forensic accounting. In this context, it has been focused on which tools the forensic accountant should use while conducting research.

There is a multidirectional relationship between bank loans and economic growth. While bank loans support economic growth, the same relationship is also valid for the opposite situation. This study tests the relationship between bank loans and economic growth. The study analyzes quarterly data for the period between 2010 Q1 - 2022 Q4 in Turkey. According to the results of Toda-Yamamoto causality test, there is a causality relationship between economic growth and SME loans, commercial loans and consumer loans. In other words, economic growth has an effect on the volume of loans extended by banks.