The Relationship Imports and Exports in Free Zones Have with Türkiye’s Foreign Trade and Employment: The Fourier Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ADL) Hidden Cointegration Test

Free zones, which are implemented as a development policy on the basis of the objectives of increasing exports, investments, and employment, facilitating imports, contributing to domestic production, ensuring technology transfer, and balancing regional differences, are special areas where tax advant...

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Main Authors: Müge Seda Ateş, Gizem Ateş, Demet Toktaş, Esra Canpolat Gökçe
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Published: Istanbul University Press 2023-06-01
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description Free zones, which are implemented as a development policy on the basis of the objectives of increasing exports, investments, and employment, facilitating imports, contributing to domestic production, ensuring technology transfer, and balancing regional differences, are special areas where tax advantages are offered to companies. The aim of this study is to investigate the level of contribution of firms supported by tax advantages in Türkiye’s free zones to Türkiye’s foreign trade and employment and to investigate the relationship between these variables. Within this framework, data compiled for monthly periods between 2013.01-2022.05 were used. The Fourier ADL hidden cointegration test was conducted by constructing 7 different models with the identified variables. In the study, it is reported that the contribution of free zones import-export with tax advantages to Türkiye’s foreign trade and employment mechanism is weak. In this framework, it has been tried to present policy recommendations for taxation, foreign trade, and employment based on the principles of both integrating free zones into international trade and achieving a more collaborative, innovative, and qualified structure to eliminate regional differences in local economies.
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spelling doaj-art-90b2c6bd3a3d43b78e3921f1a304b23d2025-08-20T03:09:31ZengIstanbul University Pressİstanbul İktisat Dergisi2602-39542023-06-0173138541810.26650/ISTJECON2022-1211005123456The Relationship Imports and Exports in Free Zones Have with Türkiye’s Foreign Trade and Employment: The Fourier Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ADL) Hidden Cointegration TestMüge Seda Ateş0Gizem Ateş1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-5999Demet Toktaş2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3476-4087Esra Canpolat Gökçe3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1447-7267İnönü Üniversitesi, Malatya, Turkiyeİnönü Üniversitesi, Malatya, Turkiyeİnönü Üniversitesi, Malatya, Turkiyeİnönü Üniversitesi, Malatya, TurkiyeFree zones, which are implemented as a development policy on the basis of the objectives of increasing exports, investments, and employment, facilitating imports, contributing to domestic production, ensuring technology transfer, and balancing regional differences, are special areas where tax advantages are offered to companies. The aim of this study is to investigate the level of contribution of firms supported by tax advantages in Türkiye’s free zones to Türkiye’s foreign trade and employment and to investigate the relationship between these variables. Within this framework, data compiled for monthly periods between 2013.01-2022.05 were used. The Fourier ADL hidden cointegration test was conducted by constructing 7 different models with the identified variables. In the study, it is reported that the contribution of free zones import-export with tax advantages to Türkiye’s foreign trade and employment mechanism is weak. In this framework, it has been tried to present policy recommendations for taxation, foreign trade, and employment based on the principles of both integrating free zones into international trade and achieving a more collaborative, innovative, and qualified structure to eliminate regional differences in local economies.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/8437F63795CD44A8B8869E2BAD8F0964free zonestax incentivesforeign tradeemploymentfourier adl hidden cointegration test
spellingShingle Müge Seda Ateş
Gizem Ateş
Demet Toktaş
Esra Canpolat Gökçe
The Relationship Imports and Exports in Free Zones Have with Türkiye’s Foreign Trade and Employment: The Fourier Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ADL) Hidden Cointegration Test
İstanbul İktisat Dergisi
free zones
tax incentives
foreign trade
employment
fourier adl hidden cointegration test
title The Relationship Imports and Exports in Free Zones Have with Türkiye’s Foreign Trade and Employment: The Fourier Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ADL) Hidden Cointegration Test
title_full The Relationship Imports and Exports in Free Zones Have with Türkiye’s Foreign Trade and Employment: The Fourier Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ADL) Hidden Cointegration Test
title_fullStr The Relationship Imports and Exports in Free Zones Have with Türkiye’s Foreign Trade and Employment: The Fourier Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ADL) Hidden Cointegration Test
title_full_unstemmed The Relationship Imports and Exports in Free Zones Have with Türkiye’s Foreign Trade and Employment: The Fourier Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ADL) Hidden Cointegration Test
title_short The Relationship Imports and Exports in Free Zones Have with Türkiye’s Foreign Trade and Employment: The Fourier Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ADL) Hidden Cointegration Test
title_sort relationship imports and exports in free zones have with turkiye s foreign trade and employment the fourier autoregressive distributive lag adl hidden cointegration test
topic free zones
tax incentives
foreign trade
employment
fourier adl hidden cointegration test
url https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/8437F63795CD44A8B8869E2BAD8F0964
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