Many central banks in emerging economies have used reserve requirements (RR) to alleviate the trade-off between financial stability and price stability in recent years. Notwithstanding their widespread use, transmission channels of RR have remained largely as a black-box. In this paper, we use...

Although reserve requirements have been used in emerging markets to smooth credit cycles, the exact transmission mechanism remains to be explored. Using bank level data, this study looks inside the black-box to unveil the interaction of reserve requirement policy with bank lending. We identify a...

Financial deepening and increases in the private sector's credit-to-output ratio are expected to strengthen the monetary policy transmission mechanism in Turkey. However, shifts in the structure and composition of financial intermediation are also important for the transmission mechanism. From...