A Bibliometric Analysis Of Theses On Financial Development

The financial system can be considered as a system that ensures the formation of investment and savings decisions and efficiently transfers savings to appropriate areas in the economy. Financial development, in its most general definition, can be defined as the qualitative and quantitative improvement of financial intermediation services and a positive process in system efficiency. The development of the financial system in an economy creates positive effects on economic factors. Due to this importance, especially in recent years, the literature on the subject has made great progress and studies have intensively performed modern methods such as time series and panel econometrics. In this context, postgraduate theses that can be scanned in the YÖK database written on financial development and financial deepening have been tried to be examined with the bibliometric analysis. Bibliometric methods are developing day by day thanks to the growing body of knowledge in the research field. By the help of these methods, trends in the research field can be determined. In this regard, 75 postgraduate theses in the database on 9/12/2021 were evaluated within the scope of the analysis. Although the subject in general has started to attract attention since the mid-2000s, the bumber of theses follow a fluctuating course over the years. It can be concluded that the theses mostly consist of master theses and mainly with econometric models.

Keywords: Financial Development, Macroeconomics, Bibliometric Analysis.