Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye ekonomisi için oluşturulan eş zamanlı ve öncü gösterge endekslerinin, ekonomi saati yaklaşımı ile birleştirilmesi ve bu yöntemle iktisadi faaliyetin mevcut durumuna ve yakın gelecekte izleyebileceği olası seyre ilişkin bilgi çıkarılmasıdır....

Bu çalışma Türkiye iş çevriminin gerek aktarım gerekse senkron hareketlilik yönleriyle güçlü bağlılık sergilediği ülkelerin tespit edilmesini amaçlamaktadır. Bunun için patern algılama yöntemlerinden biri olan, iş çevrimlerinin doğrusal olmayan ve zaman değişen...

Türkiye ekonomisinde 1980 yılında başlayan yapısal değişim, 1990’ların başında sürecin tamamlanması ile sona ermiş, ardından iç ve dış şokların etkisi ile sıklıkla krizlerle karşı karşıya kalınan ve ekonomide önemli dalgalanmaların gözlendiği bir döneme...

In this paper we empirically investigate the causal link between money and economic growth employing a Markov switching Granger causality analysis. We carry out our investigation using quarterly Turkey real Gross Domestic Product, real M2 and interbank money market rate data which cover the...

Systemic risk and fragility became more important especially after the crisis of 2008. However, the burgeoning literature especially focuses on interbank and bank-firm credit networks. On the other hand, in developing countries, deferred check payments also compose another kind of credit...

This study estimates a composite leading business cycle indicator for the Uruguayan economy following the methodology of The Conference Board. Prediction is based on the analysis of multiple series that have a leading relationship to the Industrial Production Index, which is used as the...

We analyse bilateral Swiss franc exchange rate returns in an asset pricing framework to evaluate the Swiss franc's safe haven characteristics. A "safe haven" currency is a currency that offers hedging value against global risk, both on average and in particular in crisis episodes. To explore...

NZIER’s Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion (QSBO) contains a 50 year history of business opinion. While its predictive capabilities are well known, there are many more applications that can be pursued using QSBO data. This paper investigates one application, using the QSBO to forecast GDP...

Performance indices are used worldwide as indicators of activity in key sectors to assist analysts and decision-makers. An advantage of these indices is that, by pooling information from the series that make up the indices, idiosyncratic variation is smoothed out, and a stable and potentially...

This paper studies whether trade openness reduces the domestic fiscal multiplier, but increases the impacts of foreign fiscal shocks, i.e., the spillover effect, as suggested by theory. Using annual data from the period of 1970 to 2011, for 179 developed and developing economies, we show that...