Baum, Christopher F.; Caglayan, Mustafa; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2009
This paper analyzes the effects of parliamentary election cycles on the Turkish banking system. Using annual bank …-level data representing all banks in Turkey during 1963 - 2005, we present evidence of meaningful differences in the structure of … bank assets, liabilities and financial performance across different stages of the parliamentary election cycle. However, we …