This paper empirically investigates the effects of monetary policy shocks on the Turkish economy
using a structural VAR model. Monetary policy shocks are identified based on the non-recursive structural
identification scheme. Since monetary policy stance is contingent on different funding rates in the wide
interest rate corridor for the selected sample period, 2011:M1-2018:M12, this paper employs “weighted
average funding cost”to represent the monetary policy stance of the CBRT. The baseline identification
scheme is also extended in different ways to check the robustness of the results. The empirical results
can be summarized as follows. First, Turkish data are not free from price and exchange rate puzzles.
More importantly, qualitative inferences are quite persistent across different identification restrictions.
Second, structural impulse-responses reveal that there is a two-way simultaneous interaction between
monetary policy and exchange rate. Finally, the presence of money stock in the VAR model is redundant
for identifying monetary policy shocks since the VAR models with and without money stock generate
almost identical results.
Primary Language | English |
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Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | October 13, 2020 |
Submission Date | October 31, 2019 |
Acceptance Date | May 4, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 Volume: 16 Issue: 3 |