Baum, Christopher F.; Caglayan, Mustafa; Talavera, Oleksandr - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 34 (2010) 11, pp. 2709-2719
This paper analyzes the effects of parliamentary election cycles on the Turkish banking system. Using annual bank-level data representing all banks in Turkey during 1963-2007, we present evidence of meaningful differences in the structure of bank assets, liabilities and financial performance...