The goal of this paper is to understand the effect of macroeconomic conditions on performance in Turkish banking. Turkey has experienced a series of financial distresses in the past three decades. This has served as a “negative externality” on banking performance despite important...

In this study, we examine factors associated with equity valuation in a newly emerging market, Turkey. In the United States and other developed countries, research indicates that both earnings and book value are important predictors of equity valuation. In Turkey, earnings appear to have...

Turkey experienced a severe financial crisis in 1994 that resulted in a record level economic contraction and a large number of failures among industrial and financial firms. Employing a nonparametric approach, we measured the efficiency and productivity of the Turkish banking sector between...

This paper examines productivity developments in public, private and foreign banks operating in Turkey over the initial post-liberalization period. With the help of a DEA-type Malmquist index approach, it also tries to explore the contributions of technological change, efficiency change and...