A BOOTSTRAP PANEL GRANGER CAUSALITY ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES / Politik İstikrarsızlık Ve Makroekonomik Değişkenler Arasındaki İlişkilerin Bootstrap Panel Nedensellik Testi İle Analizi

Abstract

In this study, we try to analyze the causal relationship between political instability and macroeconomic variables for selected emerging markets such as Turkey, India, Russia, Mexico and Indonesia by using panel bootstrap causality tests over the period of 1992 and 2016. Selected macroeconomic variables are growth, inflation and exchange rate. Even though the results of the study differ across nations in the panel and not indicating to many causal relations, they provide the evidences of causal relations between political instability and some macroeconomic variables. Although it is hard to generalize the major findings of the study to all countries in the sample, still we can conclude that unlike the expectations, changes in most of the macroeconomic variables do cause in changes in political instability. Thus, achieving economic stability in terms of low inflation, high growth and stable exchange rate seem to be key factors to achieve political stability. 

Keywords

• Political Instability,Cross-Sectional Dependence,Slope Homogeneity,Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality

A BOOTSTRAP PANEL GRANGER CAUSALITY ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES / Politik İstikrarsızlık Ve Makroekonomik Değişkenler Arasındaki İlişkilerin Bootstrap Panel Nedensellik Testi İle Analizi

Abstract

Bu çalışmada Türkiye, Hindistan, Rusya, Meksika ve Endonezya yükselen piyasa ekonomileri için, 1992 ve 2016 dönemleri arasındaki verilerle, panel bootstrap nedensellik testini kullanarak politik istikrarsızlık ve makroekonomik değişkenler arasındaki nedensellik ilişkisini analiz etmek amaçlanmıştır. Seçilmiş makroekonomik değişkenler büyüme, enflasyon ve döviz kurudur. Çalışmanın sonuçları paneldeki ülkeler arasında farklılık gösterip çok fazla nedensellik ilişkisi olmadığını işaret etmesine rağmen, politik istikrarsızlık ve bazı makroekonomik değişkenler arasındaki nedensellik ilişkisinin kanıtlarını sunmaktadır. Çalışmanın ana bulgularını örneklemdeki tüm ülkelere genellemek zor olsa da, beklentilerden farklı olarak makroekonomik değişkenlerin çoğundaki değişikliklerin politik istikrarsızlıktaki değişikliklere neden olduğu sonucuna varabiliriz. Dolayısıyla, elde edilen bulgulara göre, düşük enflasyon, yüksek büyüme ve istikrarlı döviz kuru açısından ekonomik istikrarın sağlanması, politik istikrarın sağlanmasında kilit faktörler olarak görülmektedir.

Keywords

• Politik İstikrarsızlık,Yatay Kesit Bağımlılığı,Eğim Katsayılarının Homojenliği,Bootstrap Panel Nedensellik Testi

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