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Is Turkey's Stock Market More Affected by Covid-19 Indicators at National Scales or Global Scales

Cilt: 17 Sayı: Pandemi Özel Sayısı 30 Nisan 2021
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Is Turkey's Stock Market More Affected by Covid-19 Indicators at National Scales or Global Scales

Abstract

In the context of wait-and-see policies due to uncertainties in the economy, both real and financial economic decisions bring to the agenda a slowdown. Considering that uncertainty gets ever deeper in accidental situations like wars and disasters, we observe that Covid-19 has not only surrounded the world, but has also further deepened this uncertainty. On the other hand, countries continue to struggle with health problems, while receding back to Keynesian economics to minimize the effects on their socio-economic structure, as economies try to relieve both real and financial economies by implementing expansionary monetary and financial policies. These expansionary policies and interventions by governments against such negativities have created opposite effects. This study examines the oscillations regarding the BIST-100 index, an important indicator of the Turkish economy, against national and global Covid indicators. Using policies expansionary policies and stock exchange alternatives as control variables, this study included MS-VAR analyses for the period of 2019/12/31-2020/06/30. It was observed that BIST-100 was affected by Covid indicators at both national and global levels and that it showed oscillations in the form of expansion and shrinking. These findings indicate that the monetary and fiscal policies in Turkey should be designed based on a proactive approach to minimize the wait-and-see effects of global and national uncertainties on the real and particularly the financial decisions of economic actors.

Keywords

Covid-19 , Turkish Economy , Stock Market Index , MS-VAR Analyses , Non-Linear Time Series.

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Kaynak Göster

APA
Yurttançıkmaz, Z. Ç., Özdemir, D., Yalçınkaya, Ö., & Emsen, Ö. S. (2021). Is Turkey’s Stock Market More Affected by Covid-19 Indicators at National Scales or Global Scales. OPUS International Journal of Society Researches, 17(Pandemi Özel Sayısı), 3869-3891. https://doi.org/10.26466/opus.870980