73rd International Atlantic Economic Conference

March 28 - 31, 2012 | Istanbul, Turkey

The fiscal dominance periods for Turkey

Thursday, 29 March 2012: 9:50 AM
Ayse Ertugrul, Ph.D. student , Department of Economics, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
This paper attempts to empirically distinguish the fiscal dominance (FD) periods for Turkey. Two-regime Markov switching model is regressed withquarterly data for 1989:2-2011:2 period. The results are relevant with FD phenomenon and are able to identify the two fiscal regimes.