OECD Economics Department Working Papers

ISSN :
1815-1973 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/18151973
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Working papers from the Economics Department of the OECD that cover the full range of the Department’s work including the economic situation, policy analysis and projections; fiscal policy, public expenditure and taxation; and structural issues including ageing, growth and productivity, migration, environment, human capital, housing, trade and investment, labour markets, regulatory reform, competition, health, and other issues.
 

After the Crisis

Mitigating Risks of Macroeconomic Instability in Turkey You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Lukasz Rawdanowicz
Publication Date
06 Dec 2010
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No.:
820
Pages
27
DOI
10.1787/5km36j745fbt-en

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Turkey is recovering from a severe recession. Once growth gains full speed, the authorities will likely face the challenge of widening external imbalances and of ensuring a smooth functioning of the financial markets. The former will require improving competitiveness, raising domestic saving, attracting more FDI inflows and reducing energy import dependency. Improvements in many of these areas will depend on structural reforms in the labour and product markets. Financial market stability calls for adopting international standards of prudential regulations and reacting pre-emptively to new developments in the financial markets. Mitigating risks of macroeconomic instability will be crucial for embarking on a stable and strong growth path to generate sustainable convergence with the OECD average income level. This paper relates to the 2010 OECD Economic Review of Turkey (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/turkey).
Keywords:
Turkey, saving, energy import dependence, financial supervision, competitiveness, current account deficit, FDI, trade model
JEL Classification:
  • C5: Mathematical and Quantitative Methods / Econometric Modeling
  • E21: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics / Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment / Consumption; Saving; Wealth
  • F32: International Economics / International Finance / Current Account Adjustment; Short-Term Capital Movements
  • F41: International Economics / Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance / Open Economy Macroeconomics
  • G18: Financial Economics / General Financial Markets / Government Policy and Regulation
  • H3: Public Economics / Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
  • Q43: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Energy / Energy and the Macroeconomy