Turkey undertook a far-reaching structural adjustment programme in 1980. As an integral element of this programme, financial liberalisation aimed at increasing domestic savings and directing them efficiently towards financing investment projects, which will be likely to have positive impacts on economic growth. After 20 years the performance of these reforms in financial markets is still a matter of concern among academics. The aim of this paper is to examine the role of the financial sector in the whole economy and to assess the sources of gross output of the sector. By doing that we are able to connect financial reforms with different source of growth, and analyse the impacts of reforms on the production of financial services in the pre-and pro-liberalisation periods. To accomplish this aim, we introduce a new methodology, which is based upon the Leontief's input-output models. The results imply that the production sector of the Turkish economy has increasingly become independent from the use of financial service produced by the banking and insurance sector particularly in the post-reform period.
JEL Classification: D57, F14, O16, R15