This study develops a method to evaluate the quality of a legal framework for bank regulation and supervision (RS) by developing an extensive set of criteria and a coding system. Using this method, we generate an original set of measurements for RS by evaluating the letter of banking laws of 23...

This study examines the effects of capital inflows on the macroeconomic performance in an emerging, small open economy -- Turkey. Using monthly data from 1992:01 to 2001:06 and a recursive vector autoregression model, we find that positive innovations in capital inflows appreciate the domestic...

This paper proposes a specification to identify the monetary policy for a small open economy, Turkey. The monetary policy is measured by using the spread between the Central Bank's interbank interest rate and the depreciation rate of the domestic currency. A VAR type of model is used to identify...

Total factor productivity (TFP) is an important component of growth for most countries. This article assesses the role of macroeconomic instability on TFP growth. We consider volatility in inflation, openness of an economy and financial market deepness as measures of macroeconomic instability....

Total factor productivity (TFP) is an important component of growth for most countries. This paper assesses the role of macroeconomic instability on TFP growth. We consider volatility in inflation, openness of an economy and financial market deepness as measures of macroeconomic instability....

Monetary policy is about the determination of money stock and interest rates to affect economic activity in the short-, medium- and the long-term. Besides helping to eliminate recessionary or inflationary business cycles, controlling interest rates and value of money have important impact on...

The outburst of COVID-19 pandemic led to wide ranging social and economic problems to surface around the world since the beginning of 2020. A recently released data by the IMF report fiscal measures that countries adopted to cope with the crisis. Exploiting these novel data, we investigate the...