This study investigates the causal dynamics between policy rate and inflation rates in BRIC-T countries by employing monthly data from the January 1993 to March 2012. The study benefits from the recent advance in the time series and carries out nonlinear cointegration, frequency domain test...

In this paper, we empirically investigate the Mundell-Fleming theoretical concept of an “impossible trinity” (trilemma) for Turkey, following the Aizenman, Chinn and Ito approach. However, we also introduce alternative empirical techniques in order to deal with possible misspecification...

Duty called and central banks, in response to the global crisis, have risen to a level of preeminence that is presumably unprecedented in modern economic history. The Central Bank of Turkey (CBRT) not only had to go with the flow but also led to some heated debates in the realm of market...

In this study, we discuss the overall performance of different core inflation measures for Turkey. We first describe and derive the core measures based on exclusion, statistical and model-based methods. We then compare their performances during the entire sample period of January 2003 –...

2001 krizi Türkiye iktisat tarihinde önemli bir milattır. Bu makalede kriz sonrası dönemi 2002-2006 ve 2007-2012 alt dönemlerinde inceliyoruz. 2002-2006 güçlü bir stabilizasyon programının başarıyla uygulandığı, ekonominin normalleştiği bir dönemdir. Daha yakın döneme...

Finansal istikrarsızlık kavramı finans sisteminin temel işlevlerini yerine getirmemesi nedeniyle reel kesimin işleyişini olumsuz yönde etkilemesi olarak tanımlanabilir. Dolayısıyla, finansal istikrarın sağlanması için makro amaçlara ulaşmak üzere sistemi oluşturan mikro...

Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (TCMB) 2010 yılının sonlarından itibaren yeni bir para politikası çerçevesi tasarlayarak uygulamaya koymuştur. Bu makalede, yeni politikanın ortaya çıkış nedenleri, uygulaması ve sonuçları özetlenmekte; söz konusu politika çerçevesinin, orta...

In this paper, we analyze the price setting behavior of banks in the Swiss franc repo market by means of network topology concepts and measures. The sample ranges from October 1999 to December 2009. Hence, it covers a large part of the money market turmoil that started in August 2007. Among...

This article challenges the claim that monetary policy neglect was responsible for the unprecedented UK inflation of the 1970s. It departs from the historiography by showing the Bank of England following money supply objectives from 1971, two years earlier than is currently acknowledged and five...

Giving up an independent monetary policy and a flexible exchange rate are the key sources of costs and benefits entailed to joining a monetary union. In this paper we analyze their ex post impact on the stability of the Polish economy during the recent financial crisis. To this end we construct...