English Abstract: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand was the first central bank that adopted formal Inflation Targeting in 1990, then others followed it. During the years 2002-2006, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) has implemented Implicit Inflation Targeting and at the beginning of...

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...

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...