This paper has two major objectives. First, we develop and implement a Bayesian generalized factor model that allows for non-orthogonality of the idiosyncratic factors and the flexibility of cross-sectional and time series dimensions. Second, we evaluate the significance of the orthogonality...

The monetary authorities of emerging market economies tend to emphasize the studies that find instabilities in the money demand functions and use them as the main pretext for formulating monetary policy strategies in which monetary aggregates play no prominent role. In this study, however, we...

The transmission of policy decisions to financial markets is an integral part of the monetary transmission mechanism. However, one of the major problems in estimating the effect of monetary policy on asset prices is the simultaneous response of policy actions and the asset prices to each other....

This study investigates the trade credit channel of monetary policy transmission in Turkey by using a large data set of corporate firms, which includes detailed information on balance sheets and income statements of firms regularly reported to the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) in...

Bu calismanin amaci Turkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankasi tarafindan ilan edilen reel efektif doviz kuru endekslerinin guncellenmesidir. Bu cercevede olusturulan yeni endekslerle hesaplamaya dahil edilen ulke sayisi 19’dan 36’ya cikarilmis, ulke agirliklari icinse kullanilmakta olan 1988-1990...

We pursue a two-fold objective in this paper. First, we try to describe comprehensively the behaviour of sectoral growth cycles in Turkish manufacturing by using several statistical measures and to analyse the co-movement between them via correlation and peak-through analysis. One of the...

This paper analyzes how forming a monetary union affects consumption and earnings inequalities caused by adopting a common currency. We use a two country overlapping-generations model to investigate these effects. When countries choose to form a monetary union, the country with higher initial...

This paper has two main objectives. The first objective is to propose a new indicator of core inflation, which is obtained by cleaning month on month relative price fluctuations from overall price changes and idiosyncratic dynamics. We use a factor model with the subcomponents of CPI inflation...

By using the U.S. NBER-CES industry-level data for the 1962-2005 period, we analyze how exogenous changes in firms'borrowing costs, measured by the spread between Baa and Aaa rated corporate bonds, affect employment dynamics and whether external finance dependence differences across industries...

[TR] Toplam isgucu verimliligi her bir sektorde gozlenen verimlilik artislari ve sektorler arasinda emegin yeniden tahsisine bagli olarak ifade edilebilir. Bu iki faktorun katkilarini incelemek toplam isgucu verimliligi dinamiklerinin daha iyi anlasilmasina yardimci olabilmektedir. Bu not,...