Turkey’s efforts to increase international trade that is denominated in local currencies are not new. One of the most common tools for doing this is through currency swap agreements between central banks. Over the past decade, Turkey has signed such agreements with several countries, aiming to...

The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between uncertainty and economic activity. For this purpose, we use a confidential firm level panel data set (Business Tendency Survey) from Turkey to form three uncertainty measures, namely total, idiosyncratic and aggregate uncertainty. In...

Makro ekonomik göstergelerde 2002 yılından itibaren yaşanan olumlu gelişmelere rağmen, aynı yıldan itibaren Türkiye'de cari açık temel makroekonomik sorun olarak 2012 yılına kadar önemini artırarak devam etmiştir. Türkiye'nin cari açığı azaltarak yönetilebilir bir düzeye...

Increasing foreign direct investment amount is very significant especially for developing countries in order to improve economy. Because of this situation, defining the factors that affect foreign direct investment is essential. Within this context, the main purpose of this study is to identify...

Uncertainty over economic policy plays a key role in economic outcomes. But evidence and quantification for emerging markets are elusive because of measurement and reverse causality issues. In this paper, we construct a news-based economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index for Turkey and assess how...

This paper empirically investigates the volatility interactions between the international capital inflows to Turkey and Turkish economic growth using the post-financial-liberalization era data. With an Extended Constant Conditional Correlation GARCH model, it is shown that there are volatility...

Within economic policies tax incentive policies have always had a serious significance in establishing stability and encouraging investments. After 1980 in Turkey, together with the globalisation process experienced in the World, fundamental changes have been made in economic policy...

This study investigates the determinants of private sector investments in Turkey with a focus on democracy. Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach and two different democracy indices along with the other determinants of private investment, we estimated a private...

In the history of the modern state of Turkey many policies have been developed and applied in order to transform ineffective economy to a dynamic and steady one. The liberal policies have been effectively applied except for war periods. The main activity of liberal policies in Turkey's economy...

This paper proposes a method to calculate undistributed profits, thus saving rates of non-financial firms using only the information given in their balance sheets. This allows us to analyze the saving behavior of non-financial firms even in the absence of their statement of cash flows, which...