In this paper we examine whether there are speculative bubbles in Turkish housing market. For this purpose, we use the Phillips et al. (2015a) testing algorithm to examine whether the house price to rent ratio in Turkey and 10 Turkish cities

In this study, we investigate the sustainability of Turkish current account to GDP ratio in the long run by testing the null hypothesis of a unit root against the alternative of the smooth structural break with sign and/or size nonlinearity. Using nonlinear unit root tests, we find strong evidence in favour of the sustainability of Turkish current account deficit after taking into account both the smooth structural break and asymmetric speed of adjustment towards mean values. The core of our conclusion is twofold: first, we find that current account deficit is sustainable for Turkey in the analysed period; and second, sustainable current account deficit increased to around 5% of GDP in Turkey after the smooth structural break. Our results point out that current account deficits about 5% of GDP are sustainable if current account deficits permit greater FDI inflows and long‐term external borrowings that much more oriented towards productive activities in the economy. However, if domestic investments are mainly financed by short‐term external borrowings, then running current account deficits around 5% of GDP in the long run may generate inherent problems.

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of economic, financial and political risks on CDS premium of Turkey. For this purpose, we examine asymmetric effects of economic, financial and political risk variables on Turkey's CDS by employing nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model for the period 2000:10-2020:06. Our findings are two-fold. First, we find that both economic and financial risks have asymmetric effects on CDS premium, while political risks have symmetric effect on CDS. Second, we find that increases in financial risks raise CDS premium more than that of economic risks, while decreases in economic risks reduce CDS premium more than that of financial risks. The empirical results imply that economic reforms appear to be more efficient than the financial recovery measures in reducing CDS premium of Turkey.

This study investigates volatility spillover effects as well as hedging and diversification opportunities between sectoral stock returns and world crude oil prices in Turkey using the weekly closing prices of the BIST 100 and twenty-three sectoral stock indices for the period 2002-2018. DCC modelling is employed to investigate volatility spillovers between sectoral stock returns and oil prices. Findings reveal significant volatility spillovers from the oil market to the BIST 100 and twelve stock sectors. Furthermore, optimal hedge ratios, optimal portfolio weights, hedging effectiveness, diversification effectiveness and risk-adjusted returns of oil-stock portfolios are computed and compared. The results indicate that diversification is a more effective strategy than hedging in terms of risk (variance) reductions and risk-adjusted returns in the Turkish stock market.