Global crisis has underlined the essentiality of deepening our understanding and knowledge about the financial system. Accordingly, recent debates on macroeconomic policies focused exclusively on the financial system. This survey aims at contributing to the efforts on expanding our existing...

This paper aims to explain the sources of real exchange rate fluctuations in Turkey. For this purpose, a bivariate SVAR model with the rates of change in the real and in the nominal exchange rates as endogenous variables is specified, and two types of structural shocks are identified as real and...

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...