Abstract
Purpose – The aim of the research is to test the effectiveness of macroprudential policies that contain
different instruments and help to ensure financial stability in Turkey.
Design/methodology/approach – The Central Bank of Turkey (CBRT) and the Banking Regulation
and Supervision Agency (BRSA) implemented macroprudential policies such as active use of Debt
to Income (DTI), Loan to Value ratio (LTV), required reserve ratios, capital requirement, foreign
currency lending limits, credit growth limits, interest rate corridor in order to mitigate financial
vulnerabilities. These effects have been analyzed and tested with the econometric time series
methods in the paper. The data consist banking groups that are Turkish banking sector, deposit
banks, development&investment banks.
Results – Empirical findings show that tightening macroprudential policies reduce the loan growth
of the Turkish Banking sector and deposit banks. However, the magnitude of this effect is relatively
small. Unlike these findings, the effects of macro-prudential tools on the loan growth for the Turkish
Development&Investment Banks are not significant statistically.
Discussion – Aftermath of the global crisis, the new monetary policy, which doesn’t have traditional
features, started to be implemented from the middle of 2010 and has been going on as of the
beginning of 2019 in Turkey. Accordingly, the Central Bank of Turkey (CBRT) has determined
financial stability as a goal in addition to price stability in the framework of the new monetary policy
and it has carried out and developed new tools in accordance with this secondary objective. This
application has been carried out in coordination with (BRSA). The new monetary policy of the CBRT
and the macro-prudential policies of the BRSA mutually aimed to mitigate financial vulnerabilities
and provide financial stability in Turkey. When we examine and interpret the empirical results, we
can say that the macro-prudential policy tools affect a certain degree of credit growth in the whole
banking system. However, this effect is not very strong.
Citation
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mahmutoglu2019theisletme