Author: Galip Yalman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317364694 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
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This volume provides a comprehensive study of Turkey’s financial transformation into one of the most dynamic, if not trouble-free, emerging capitalisms. While this financial evolution has underwritten Turkey’s dramatic economic growth, it has done so without ameliorating the persistently exploitative and unequal social structures that characterize neoliberalism today. This edited volume, written by an interdisciplinary range of political economists, critically examines Turkey’s financial transformation, contributing to debates on the nature of peripheral financialization. Eschewing economistic interpretations, The Political Economy of Financial Transformation in Turkey underscores both the quantitative significance of exponential growth in financial flows and investments, and the qualitative importance of the state’s institutional restructuring around financial imperatives. The book presents today’s reality as historically rooted. By understanding the choices made under the new Republic (from 1923 onwards), one can better locate the changes launched as a newly liberalizing society (since 1980). Likewise, the decisions made in response to Turkey’s 2001 financial crisis spurred a tectonic break in state–market–society financial relations. The waves of change have reached far and wide: from corporate strategies of accumulation and growth to small- and medium-sized enterprises’ strategies of financial survival; from how finance has penetrated the provisioning of housing to how households have become financialized. Put together, one grasps the complexity and historicity of the power of contemporary finance. One also sees that the changes made have not been class-neutral, but have entailed elevating the interests of major capital groups, particularly financial capital, above the interests of the poor and workers in Turkey. Nor are these changes constrained to its national borders, as what transpires domestically contributes to the making of a financialized world market. Through this ‘Made in Turkey’ approach the contributions in this volume thus challenge dominant understandings of financialization, which are derived from the advanced capitalisms, by sharing the specificity of emerging capitalisms such as Turkey.
Author: Salman Agha Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 18
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The objective of this paper is to examine several aspects of the banking market in Turkey to assess the nature of its structure and the state of competition. What kind of market structure exists in banking after the reforms? Was the entry of new banks sufficient to transform the market structure into a competitive one or did the distortions resulting from earlier financial and regulatory policies built endogenous constraints into the system thwarting competition regardless of new entry? Now that regulatory entry barriers are gone, are there mobility barriers in the system? These are some of the questions this study attempts to provide answers by drawing on market structure studies found in industrial organization literature and applying them to the Turkish banking market. The focus is on the commercial retail banking market since it is primarily through this channel that resources are mobilized and allocated. However, it must be noted at the outset that although recent developments in theory have improved our understanding of financial intermediation, there is still no fully developed theoretical model of banking competition and that the quantitative results of this study must be interpreted with caution.
Author: Güven Sak Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ekonomik istikrar- Türkiye Languages : en Pages : 170
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT IV ÖZ V ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VI LIST OF TABLES VII CHAPTERI: INTRODUCTION 1 PART I FROM FINANCIAL REPRESSION TO FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION: THEORETICAL AND RESEARCH ISSUES CHAPTER II: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE FINANCIAL HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE POLICY DEBATE 7 2.1 Introduction 7 2.2 Growth-Oriented Analysis: The Role of Finance in Economic Development 9 2.3 Financial Repression Analysis and thc Neoclassical Paradigm: The Policy Framcwork in Financial Markets 11 2.4 On the Impossibiiity of Perfect Financial Markets 15 2.5 New Agcnda of Research 20 2.6 Roles for Government in the Financial Liberalization Process 22 2.7 Policy Framcwork in Developing Market Economies 24 2.8 Concluding Comments 25 CHAPTER III: MARKET ORIENTED POLİCY TRENDS: FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION İN A CHANGING WORLD 29 3.1 Introduction 29 3.2 Impact of Technology on Changes in Financial Markets 29 3.3 Impact of Past Experiencc and Rcgulatory Pressures for Financial Change 30 3.4 Increasing Uncertainty of the Economic Environment and Financial Change Process 31 3.5 Increased Compctition and Financial Change 32 3.6 Financial Change in Developing Market Economies 33 3.7Concluding Comments 34 CHAPTER IV: AN ATTEMPT TOWARDS A METHODOLOGY OF FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION 37 4.1 Introduction 37 4.2 The Roies of Financial Markets 38 4.3 Phases of Financial Liberalization Processes 39 4.4 Public Policy Objectives in the Financial Liberalization Process: Measures Involved in Different Phases 43 4.5 Dynamics of Bchavioural Change: Theoretical Background of Myopia on Ihe Parl of Economic Agents 45 4.6 Concluding Comments 47 PART II TURKEY'S FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION IN THE 1980'S CHAPTER V: SALIENT FEATURES OF THE 1980-1992 POLICY EXPERIENCE İN TURKEY 53 5.1 Introduction 53 5.2 Salient Features of the Liberalization Process 54 5.3 Stabilization Over-determines Liberalization 57 5.4 Concluding Comments 60 CHAPTER VI: POST-1980 PUBLIC POLİCY MEASURES TOWARDS FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION 63 6.1 Introducüon 63 6.2 The Financial Crisis of 1982 and Its Significance 63 6.3 The Financial Sector Reform in Perspective 65 6.4 Measures to Limit Government Intervention to Bilateral Transactions 66 6.5 The Second Phase of the Reform Process 69 6.6 Concluding Comments 77 PART III THE PERFORMANCE OF FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION POLICIES IN TURKEY CHAPTER VII: FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN THE POST-REFORM PERIOD: POLICY OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION 81 7.1 Introduction 81 7.2 General Overview of the Results of Financial Liberalization Process in Turkey 82 7.3 The Charactcristics of the Period Under Analysis 85 7.4 Increase in the Size of the Financial Sector 86 7.5 Increase in the Volume of Domestic Savings and Investments 88 7.6 Positive High Real Rates of Interest 91 7.7 Short-term Capital Inflows and Exchange Rate Appreciation 95 7.8 Concluding Comments 98 CHAPTER VIII: THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC POLICY MEASURES ON FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING 101 8.1 Introduction 101 8.2 Characteristics of Change in Turkish Financial Markets: An Evaluation of Performance Results 102 8.3 Developmcnts in Individual Markets and Financial Change 112 8.4 Conciuding Comments 138 CHAPTER IX: CONCLUSIONS 141 REFERENCES 145.
Author: Mehmet Odekon Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 184
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This book's main theme is that the neoliberal economic policies forced on developing countries by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank serve the interests of Western industrial countries more than those of developing countries, as the post-1980 Turkish experience illustrates. Within a simple dependency-oriented framework the book presents the effects of liberalization policies in Turkey. These policies were mostly concerned with allocative efficiency, disregarding distributional efficiency issues. The results were not always socially or politically desirable. These policies consistently favored capital over labor and created an economic system that made the rich richer and the poor poorer. Privatization, in the name of raising allocative efficiency, contributed to increasing inequality and poverty. Anti-inflationary policies, debt-reduction schemes, environmental policies, and agricultural reforms all favored the interests of high-income groups. transferring surplus from the national metropolis to the international metropolis, or by restructuring the developing countries' output, input, and financial markets so that any exchange between developing and industrial countries would
Author: Cevdet Denizer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Banks and banking Languages : en Pages : 36
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One remarkable consequence of Turkey's financial liberalization has been the large number of foreign banks entering the banking sector. Their effect? They appear to have increased competition and to have reduced the overhead expenses of domestic commercial banks, strengthening profits.
Author: Ziya Onis Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135758689 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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This book provides a set of critical perspectives on the economic crises of 2000 and 2001 focusing on both the origins and consequences of the crises. Attention is drawn to the role of domestic actors as well as key external actors such as the International Monetary Fund in precipitating the twin crises.