The article discusses different causes of financial crises and shows that the imputation of reinvested profits of the subsidiaries of foreign firms as a debit item on a host country's balance of payments account tends to overstate the current account deficit and to make the host country seem...

Purpose of this study is to revise the real effective exchange rates (REER) indexes released by Central Bank of Turkey. Within this framework, number of countries included in computation of new indexes is increased from 19 to 36 and for the country weights; recent trade developments are aimed to...

This paper briefly surveys the development of international finance theories after the 1960s. The important theories reviewed in this paper include: exchange rate dynamics, policy pre-announcement, first-generation currency crises, intertemporal optimizing model, exchange rate target zones,...

Turkish Abstract: ÖZETBu çalışma finansal zaman serilerindeki doğrusal olmayan davranışların belirlenmesinde, özellikledeğişen varyanslılığın tesbitinde kullanılan Park Testi, Glejser Değişen Varyans Testi, BreuschGodfrey LM testi, White testi ve ARCH-LM testlerinin...