Understanding the behavior of asset prices is essential in evaluating investment decisions so that practitioners and academics have been investigating what assets are worth and whether asset prices are predictable. The degree of stock return predictability is a statistical concept and totally an empirical issue. In this study, we conduct an empirical application on the equity premium forecastability concept. We consider both macroeconomic and technical indicators in order to predict the equity risk premiums of selected thirteen stock markets including Belgium, Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Brazil, Hong-Kong, India, Russia, and South Africa. Incorporating information from all indicators including domestic and foreign macroeconomic indicators, oil price changes, and technical indicators provides in-sample fitting gains. Out-of-sample forecasting results show that the strategy of combining forecasts provides out-of-sample gains. Portfolio performance analyses suggests following the forecasts generated by the proposed models to obtain positive returns over the buy-and-hold strategy.

Teknoloji ve ekonomi ilişkisi, insanın doğa karşısında verdiği mücadelenin bir neticesidir. Teknoloji doğası gereği gelişmeyi, ekonomi de ise ilerlemeyi temsil eder. Uygarlık, bu iki temelin üstünde ortaya çıkar. Teknik değişimler, iki yüzü olan etkiler bırakır. Bunlardan ilki, bilim olarak insanın zihinsel yetilerine ihtiyaç duyar. Bu nedenle algılarımızla temas içindedir ve tüm bilimsel üretimlere konu olur. İkinci yüzüyle ilerlemeyi temsil ettiğinden, ekonomik alanda zenginlik sağlar. Her teknik icat, yeni endüstri alanları yaratırken, yeni yaşam tarzları da belirler.

Ekonomiyi faaliyetler alanı şeklinde toparlarsak, teknoloji yapısal bir zemindir. Ekonominin kurumları günümüzde, hiç olmadığı kadar teknolojinin omuzlarına ihtiyaç duymaktadır. Ekonominin küresel etkileşimci karakteri, teknolojiye olan ilgimiz oranında sağlıklı olabilir. Enformasyonel bir dünya, teknolojide geri kalmayı affetmez.

This book is about economic growth and development through a new way of analysis. It is a research that explains many phenomena seen in the growth process such as productivity, economic stagnation, under-investment, ineffectiveness of foreign aid, wage trends, factor flows and concentrations, technology adoption, and convergence by “relational analysis”.

Relational analysis is a general alternative analysis that focuses on the relationships between factors and uses their vital consequences to extract knowledge rather than ignore them artificially and fatally. It emphasizes that there are important interrelationships between factors such as complementarity, substitution, embodiment, directing, input-output, and facilitation. Taking into account the relations enable to get more complete and accurate answers to important questions, especially in applied works that require real predictions such as forecasting and policy formulation. The analysis can be fruitfully applied in any field, and as the growth analysis shows it fundamentally enriches the ideas, and protect from misleading assumptions.

In the book the readers will find:

– Origins and alternative definitions of complementarity and substitutions,

– Eleven implications of these relationships for economic growth and development,

– Many explanations and references for inferences regarding growth accounting, poverty traps and thresholds, multiple eqilibria, obsolescence, financial development, growth accelerations, imitations and barriers, and empirical anaysis.

The book is for anyone looking for an alternative way to learn about the basics of the growth process. Researchers, students, and staffs at universities and research institutions and other social scientists in government, business, international organizations should greatly benefit from reading the book.