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Capital Account Liberalization: The Case of Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Melike Altinkemer  and
Nazim K. Ekinci
Nazim K. Ekinci
Affiliation:
Central Bank, Republic of Turkey, Research Department; and Middle East Technical University, Department of Economics, and Central Bank, Republic of Turkey, Research Department
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After experiencing serious macroeconomic imbalances in the 1977-1980 period, fundamental policy changes were introduced in Turkey on January 24, 1980. The problems addressed were typical of a middle income country constrained by its balance of payments: inability to service foreign debt and inability to finance imports required for production, high inflation rates, and all other related macroeconomic imbalances. The reasons for the 1977-1980 crisis and subsequent developments, including post-1980 developments, have already been studied extensively by a number of researchers. We shall, therefore, refer the reader to the relevant literature (e.g. Celasun and Rodrik, 1989; Ekinci, 1990; Uygur, 1991) and concentrate on the narrower topic of external financial liberalization or capital account liberalization and the related topic of exchange rates which has attracted much less attention.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 8 , fall 1992 , pp. 89 - 108
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1992

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