Turkish economy in the aftermath of the global crisis has faced an unprecedented divergence between domestic and external demand. Increasing risks in the face of surging short-term capital inflows, deteriorating current account deficit and rapid credit growth have called for an alternative...

In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of financial markets to monetary policy expectations in Turkey. According to the efficient markets hypothesis, financial markets respond to anticipated policy actions prior to a policy announcement. As a result, they are expected to respond only...