The shock waves of the 2008-09 global financial crisis and the 2011-12 Eurozone debt crisis hit emerging markets from the trade, the finance and the expectations channels. We focus on the finance channel in this paper. We first discuss the challenges arising from capital flow volatility in...

Küresel finansal krizin ardından, merkez bankalarının fiyat istikrarının yanı sıra finansal istikrarı da gözetmeleri farklı politika araçlarının kullanımını gerekli kılmıştır. Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası tarafından son dönemde kullanılan politika araçlarından...

Reserve Options Mechanism (ROM), which is the option to hold FX or gold reserves in increasing tranches in place of Turkish Lira reserve requirements of Turkish banks, was designed and launched by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT). ROM is a tool unique to the CBRT and it is aimed...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the effects of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS) and risk aversion on savings separately and determine which coefficient is more important factor for precautionary savings. This is an important question since a significant fraction of...