This study explores the relations between the development level of capital market sub-components, involving mutual/pension funds, corporate bond, stock and government bond markets, and economic growth over the period of 2006:M1 and 2016:M6 in Turkey. We find that there is a long-run...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze volatility properties of the house price returns of Turkey and Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir provinces over the period of July 2007-June 2014. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses conditional variance models, namely, ARCH, GARCH and...

Turkey is well behind the many countries according to socio-economic development criteria. Activities aim to make Istanbul a financial center seem paradoxical due to less developed and risky characteristics of national economy and financial system. It seems that these activities have both...

The idea of development of capital markets and hence securities firms had resurfaced after 1980’s in Turkey, the latest and probably the final liberal period of Turkish economy. First regulations on securities firm business appaeard after Banking Crisis of 1982 (or Banker Crisis). The number...

Marketization in housing finance reached its peak level in last decade and become new normal in Turkey thanks to private sector initiatives in housing supply, PPP activities of Housing Development Agency, booming primary mortgage market, growing internationalization, and urban regeneration....

This paper analyzes return enhancement patterns of Turkish REITs (T-REITs) from various perspectives over the period of July 2008 and March 2015. We find that T-REITs portfolio provides a slightly lower level of risk diversification benefit than investment trusts, but higher than the banks. The...

Housing prices have increased substantially in some emerging markets in recent years. Turkish housing market has also experienced a boom over the last decade with rapid house price appreciations. This study is the first to employ two different house price indexes to analyze housing bubble in...

Developments in primary mortgage markets, housing finance system and the activities of Housing Development Agency (HDA/TOKI) have been the major trends in Turkish housing markets in last decade. Based on the current policies, HDA seems the central institution to solve housing problems of the...

Notions of housing affordability concept are at the heart of debates about access to home ownership, housing finance and social policies globally. The existing housing affordability literature mostly focuses mainly on developed countries. Housing affordability problem in emerging countries are...

In this article, based on the past/current local housing finance initiatives, market conditions, national housing policy and lessons from global financial crisis, we examine whether market based housing finance system may provide efficient policy instrument to solve housing (finance) question of...