Strengthening Reserves of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT): An Examination for Transferring Treasury’s Share in Profit to Reserves and Increasing Treasury’s Share in CBRT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Tevfik Kartal
Keyword(s):  
Central Bank ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Republic Of Turkey

Briefly Noted

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-182
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
Ninth Circuit ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Republic Of Turkey

On August 8, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Bakalian v. Central Bank of Republic of Turkey, Case No. 13-55664. In this case, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiffs’ claims seeking compensation from the Republic of Turkey and two Turkish national banks for lands that they claim were unlawfully confiscated from their ancestors during what the Court refers to as the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923. In 2006, California adopted a statute extending the statute of limitations for claims arising out of the Armenian Genocide to December 31, 2016. Thus, the claims filed by the plaintiffs in 2010 were not time-barred under the statute; however, the panel found that since the Court had previously found the statute to be unconstitutional, no statute existed to extend the statute of limitations and therefore the claims were time-barred. The panel held that since the claims were plainly time-barred, the Court need not address legal questions posed regarding Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act jurisdiction.

scholarly journals The Role of Monetary Policy Announcements on Turkish Banks' Stock Returns

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Nida Abdioğlu ◽  
Sinan Aytekin
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Abnormal Returns ◽  
Cumulative Abnormal Returns ◽  
Monetary Policy Committee ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Republic Of Turkey

This paper investigates the impact of monetary policy committee decisions of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey on the stock returns of the deposit banks listed in Borsa Istanbul Banks Index (XBANK). The cumulative abnormal returns of the banks are calculated for 2008 and 2012. We report that the monetary policy announcements affect cumulative abnormal returns of the deposits banks both in 2008 and 2012. Since the announcement of the monetary policy decisions created abnormal returns, we conclude that the market does not have semi-strong form efficiency.

scholarly journals Gold Reserve Policies of Selected Central Banks After the Global Financial Crisis: A Comparative Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zehra Vildan Serin ◽  
Erişah Arıcan ◽  
Başak Tanınmış Yücememiş
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Gold Reserve ◽  
Bank Reserves ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Republic Of Turkey

After the global financial crisis, central banks have changed attitudes towards gold and have unconventional policy measures, in addition to conventional interest rate cuts. With these measures central banks aimed to support financial stability, and to reduce to potential adverse effects from international capital flows. From the perspective of investors and central banks gold positions and gold reserves are still significant and debatable issues. The purpose of this study is to investigate the composition of central bank reserves the period of 2008 and 2018. In this paper, generally we compared gold reserve holdings of major central banks with Turkey. The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) has increased gold reserves especially since 2002. With implementing effective policies, CBRT has increased gold holdings in international reserves. CBRT is one of the countries with the highest share of gold reserves in the world.

scholarly journals Have Financial Stability Concerns Changed the Priority of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey?

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekrem Erdem ◽  
Umit Bulut ◽  
Emrah Kocak
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Nominal Exchange Rate ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Price Stability ◽  
Cointegration Tests ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Republic Of Turkey ◽  
Monetary Policy Framework

Abstract This paper aims at analysing whether the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT), designing a new monetary policy framework to achieve financial stability in the last quarter of 2010, tries to pursue financial stability by putting price stability on the back burner. To this end, a forward-looking reaction function that is extended with nominal exchange rate gap and nominal domestic credits gap is estimated for the CBRT. The paper first performs unit root and cointegration tests and finds that the variables become stationary at first differences and that there is a cointegration relationship among variables. Then, the paper conducts the Kalman filter to obtain time varying parameters. The findings show that the coefficients of all explanatory variables did not change too much after the new monetary policy framework of the CBRT in the last quarter of 2010. Therefore, this paper asserts that the CBRT continues to pursue price stability as its primary goal and tries to achieve financial stability by using macroprudential tools. Thus this paper concludes that financial stability concerns have not changed the priority of the CBRT.

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