Political business cycles in the parliamentary systems - Evidence from Turkey


Telatar F.

EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE, cilt.39, sa.4, ss.24-39, 2003 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 39 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2003
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/1540496x.2003.11052546
  • Dergi Adı: EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.24-39
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: credibility, inflation, political business cycles, MACROECONOMIC POLICY, MONETARY-POLICY, 2-PARTY SYSTEM, ELECTION DATES, DISCRETION, RULES, MODEL, JAPAN
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

This paper empirically investigates the existence of political business cycles in Tarkey for the 1986-97 period. Turkey presents an interesting case, with high and chronic inflation problems continuing since the mid-1970s. Political surfing and manipulative hypotheses about the behavior of the governments in a parliamentary system are tested by using probit and logit estimation procedures that include the election timing as an endogenous variable. We found that the governments manipulated the economy to increase their chances to be reelected through money supply and government expenditures during the sample period, causing the stabilization programs to loose their credibility and thus the inflation problem to continue.