Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis

Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis is a peer-reviewed national and international journal which publishes original academic researches. In this context, the journal aims to contribute to economic theory without ignoring ethic rules.

Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis is a quarterly published, peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal promotes the economic analysis of both public sector and private sector. While the journal welcomes quantitative and empirical studies, it also supports the theoretical studies i.e. development of economic theories. In addition to articles on economics, Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis also includes studies on business, public finance and econometrics.

Writing Rules

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis uses American Psychological Association (APA) 6.0 th ed for citations, footnotes and reference list. Manuscripts should be prepared according to APA, 6th ed., except for the additional requirement of numbering the sections, as described below.

FORMAT

This is a sample of the format for A4-sized pages (21 x 29 cm) with left, right, top and bottom margins of 2.5 cm. Use 12 pt size Times New Roman with 1,5 space. The first line of each paragraph should be indented 1.25cm. The title of the paper should be written to header on the left side of the paper and the page number should be written to right header.

STRUCTURE

The manuscript should be structured as; the title of the paper, abstract, key words, JEL codes, introduction, methodology, results, acknowledgements, references and appendix.

TITLE OF THE PAPER

It is written on the first page of the manuscript. Title should not exceed 12 words or contain abbreviations. Title should be written centered and first letter of the words capitalized. In the below the name of the authors should be written without academic title. The affiliation of the authors should be written as a footnote left-aligned. The footnote contains institution of author, funding of study if it is supported by project and e-mail address of the writer(s) for communication.

ABSTRACT

The abstract should not exceed 200 words. Manuscripts in Turkish should have both Turkish and English abstracts with English title. The abstract should contain the aim of the paper, methodology, findings and results. The first page of the manuscript should consist of Turkish-English title, abstract, at least three, at most five key words and JEL (Journal of Economic Literature) codes. Key words and JEL codes should be written italic and indented 1.25cm.

EQUATIONS

Equations should be written right aligned and consecutively ordered. Do not use images as equations.

TABLES

Tables and figures should be in their actual positions in the paper, not placed at the end or on separate pages. Tables should be numbered consecutively and the title of table should be placed under the name of the table. Notes should be written end of the table and centered.

Example:

Table 1

Unemployment in 2011-2015

Years	Unemployment(%)
2011	9.1
2012	8.4
2013	9
2014	9.9
2015	10.3

Notes. Source is TURKSTAT.

FIGURES

Figures should be numbered consecutively and the title of figure placed under the figure and justified. Notes should be written after title of the figure.

Example:

Figure 1. Public Debt/GDP the term of 2005-2016. Adopted by EUROSTAT.

TITLES

LEVEL OF TITLE	APA FORMAT
1st level	Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Headings
2nd level	Left-aligned, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading
3th level	Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.
4th level	*Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.*
5th level	Indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period

IN-TEXT CITATIONS AND THE REFERENCE LIST

In-text citations and the reference list should also be prepared in accordance with APA, 6^th ed., described as below:

Books and eBooks

Material Type	In-Text Citation	Reference List & Notes
Book: Single author	(Eichengreen, 1998)	Eichengreen, B. J. (1998). Globalizing capital: a history of the international monetary system. Princeton University Press.
Book: Two authors	(Snowdon & Vane, 2005)	Snowdon, B., & Vane, H. R. (2005). Modern macroeconomics: Its origins, development and current state. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Book: 3-5 authors	First citation: (Krugman, Obstfeld, & Melitz, 2012) Subsequent citations: (Krugman et al.,2012)	Krugman, P. R., Obstfeld, M., & Melitz, M. J. (2012). International economics: Theory & policy. Boston: Pearson Addison-Wesley.
Book: Different editions	(Frank & Bernanke, 2004)	Frank, R. H., & Bernanke, B. (2004). Principles of economics (5th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill.
Book: Editor	(Granger, 1991)	Granger, C. W. (Ed.). (1991). Modelling economic series: Readings in econometric methodology. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Book: Organisation as author	(U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1993)	U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. (1993). Labor composition and U.S. productivity growth, 1948-90. Washington, DC: Author.
Book: Chapter [ie. article] in edited book	(Bai & Kao, 2006)	Bai, J., & Kao, C. (2006). On the Estimation and Inference of a Panel Cointegration Model with Cross-Sectional Dependence. In B. H. Baltagi (Eds.), Panel Data Econometrics - Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Applications Contributions to Economic Analysis(pp. 3-30). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
eBook: Entire book	(Baltagi, 2009)	Baltagi, B. H. (2009). Econometric analysis of panel data. Retrieved from Wiley.
eBook: Chapter	(Bai & Kao, 2006)	Bai, J., & Kao, C. (2006). On the Estimation and Inference of a Panel Cointegration Model with Cross-Sectional Dependence. In B. H. Baltagi (Eds.), Panel Data Econometrics - Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Applications Contributions to Economic Analysis(pp. 3-30). Retrieved from Elsevier.

Journal Articles

Material Type	In-Text Citation	Reference List & Notes
Journal article online: Digital Object Identifier supplied	(Bernanke, 2013)	Bernanke, B. S. (2013). A Century of US Central Banking: Goals, Frameworks, Accountability. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(4), 3-16. doi:10.1257/jep.27.4.3
Journal article online: Digital Object Identifier supplied, 2 authors	(Esteve & Tamarit, 2012)	Esteve, V., & Tamarit, C. (2012). Threshold cointegration and nonlinear adjustment between CO2 and income: The Environmental Kuznets Curve in Spain, 1857–2007. Energy Economics, 34(6), 2148-2156. doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2012.03.001
Journal article online: Digital Object Identifier supplied, 3 authors	(Song, Zheng, & Tong, 2008)	Song, T., Zheng, T., & Tong, L. (2008). An empirical test of the environmental Kuznets curve in China: A panel cointegration approach. China Economic Review, 19(3), 381-392. doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2007.10.001
Journal article online: No DOI supplied	(Saks, 2008)	Saks, R. E. (2008). Job creation and housing construction: Constraints on metropolitan area employment growth. Journal of Urban Economics, 64(1), 178-195. Retrieved from ScienceDirect.
Journal article online: No DOI supplied (freely available on the Web)	(Case & Shiller, 2003)	Case, K. E., & Shiller, R. J. (2003). Is There a Bubble in the Housing Market.Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, (2). Retrieved from http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/pubs/p1089.pdf
Journal article submitted for publication	(Murphy & Ackermann, 2013).	Murphy, R.O., & Ackermann, K.A. (2013). Explaining behavior in public goods games: How preferences and beliefs affect contribution levels. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Conference Proceedings

Material Type	In-Text Citation	Reference List & Notes
Paper in conference proceedings in print	(Aksoy & Uğurlu, 2013)	Aksoy, E. E., & Uğurlu, E. (2013). The effects of the 2007-2008 financial crisis on Turkish firms. 10th EBES Conference (pp. 233-241). Istanbul: EBES Publications.
Paper in conference proceedings online: Electronic database	(Uğurlu, 2014)	Uğurlu, E. (2014, October). The Impact of Urbanization on CO₂Emissions in Transition Countries_.Paper Presented at the NYSEA 67th Annual Meeting. Retrieved from http://www.nyecon.net/nysea/publications/proceed/2014/NYSEA_Proceedings_2014.pdf#page=171
Conference papers: Unpublished	(Şenesen, 1986)	Şenesen, Ü. (1986). A macroeconometric model for the Turkish economy. Paper Presented at the World Conference of Applied Econometric Association, Istanbul, Turkey, 01 May 1986.

Reports

Material Type	In-Text Citation	Reference List & Notes
Government reports	(Republic of Turkey. Ministry of Development, 2016)	Republic of Turkey. Ministry of Development. (2016). Medium Term Program (2017-2019) Main Macroeconomic and Fiscal Targets. Retrieved from http://www.mod.gov.tr/Pages/content.aspx?List=da71bf51-cd71-420a-bfc8-9dfba104e918&ID=116
Non-government reports	(Uysal, 2013)	Uysal, Y. (2013). 2012 Yılında Türkiye Ekonomisi ve 2013 Yılından Beklentiler. Retrieved from http://kisi.deu.edu.tr/yasar.uysal/site/raporlar/2012YiliEkonomi2013YiliBeklenti.html

Theses

Material Type	In-Text Citation	Reference List & Notes
Thesis in print: Unpublished	(Ugurlu, 2006)	Ugurlu, E. (2006). Real exchange rate and economic growth: Turkey (Unpublished master’s thesis). Istanbul Technical University.
Thesis online: Electronic database	(Ugurlu, 2011)	Ugurlu, E. (2011). Investigating Turkish energy market by multivariate linear regression analysis (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from YOK – Turkey. (298269)

Web Sources

Material Type	In-Text Citation	Reference List & Notes
Web page	(The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, 2016)	The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey. (2016). Fiscal Monitoring. Retrieved from http://www.tepav.org.tr/en/calismalarimiz/s/343

Tables & Figures

Material Type	In-Text Citation	Reference List & Notes
All or part of a table, figure, or data used in text: From a print journal	Table 4. Uyarlandığı yer “Foreign direct investment, investment agreements and economic development: Myths and realities,” by Y. Akyuz, 2015, Ekonomi-tek International Economics Journal, 4(1), 1-47. Copyright 2015 by Ekonomi-tek International Economics Journal Adapted with permission.	Akyuz, Y. (2015). Foreign direct investment, investment agreements and economic development: Myths and realities. Ekonomi-tek International Economics Journal, 4(1), 1-47.
All or part of a table, figure, or data used in text: From a book	Figure 8.1. Uyarlandığı yer Longitudinal and panel data: Analysis and applications in the social sciences, p. 305, by E. W. Frees, 2004, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Copyright 2004 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with a permission.	Frees, E. W. (2004). Longitudinal and panel data: Analysis and applications in the social sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
All or part of a table, figure, or data used in text: From the Web.	Note. The data in column # are from External Debt : Use of IMF credit (Million $), Turkey, Oct 2016, Turkish Statistical Institute. Copyright 2016 by TUIK. Reprinted with permission.	Turkish Statistical Institute. (2016). External Debt : Use of IMF credit (Million $) Turkey, October 2016, Retrieved from https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/secilmisgostergeler/degiskenlerUzerindenSorgula.do

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis has adopted the International Standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for Editors and Authors in their manuscripts.

The submitted studies are examined with plagiarism programs.

Journal does not have any article submission and processing charges.

PUBLICATION ETHICS FOR AUTHORS

1) For the submitted scientific manuscripts, all responsibilities caused by non-compliance with ethical rules belong to the author.

2) The submitted manuscripts must be original.

3) The submitted manuscripts should not have been sent to be published elsewhere at the same time.

4) The published manuscripts should not be resubmitted to publish in our journal.

5) After submission, new authors cannot be added or removed to the manuscripts.

6) In terms of ethical rules; the situations requiring Ethics Committee Permission for the researches to be evaluated in the journal are as follows:

- Any research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
- Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
- Clinical researches on humans,
- Researches on animals,
- Retrospective studies in accordance with the law of protection of personal data.

PUBLICATION ETHICS FOR REFEREES

1) After the submitted works are evaluated by the editor, they are sent to two referees according to the blind referee system. In the case of one acceptance and one rejection, a third referee opinion will be received.

2) Manuscripts are evaluated by referees who are confidential, independent, and expert.

3) The manuscripts can be published with a positive opinion of at least two referees.

4) Neutral and fair referees will be determined for the evaluation of the manuscripts.

PUBLICATION ETHICS FOR EDITORS

1) The editor has the right to accept or reject the original manuscripts to evaluate according to the scientific field of the journal.

2) The editor will provide to send manuscripts to referees who are experts in their field.

3) A fair and fast evaluation process is provided by the editor.

4) The editor has the right to make the final decision of the publication of manuscripts, based on the opinion of the referees.

PUBLISHING POLICY

The journal will be published twice in a year from 2019.

Journal does not have any article submission and processing charges.

Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis is a quarterly published, peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal promotes the economic analysis of both public sector and private sector. While the journal welcomes quantitative and empirical studies, it also supports the theoretical studies i.e. development of economic theories. In addition to articles on economics, Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis also includes studies on business, public finance and econometrics.

Peer Reviewing Process

Submission of a manuscript implies that the work submitted has not been published before and/ or it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else. Also, the article should be prepared in accordance with the “instructions for authors”. While the official languages of the journal are Turkish and English, all manuscripts have to include an abstract written in English. These instructions provide the referees fast and correct evaluation and publication process. After the manuscript is evaluated by the editor, it will be sent to two referees who are experts in their area. These referees will remain confidential and thus independent. Manuscripts can be published with the positive opinion of at least two referees. The evaluation process will be completed at the soonest time possible.