The role of macroeconomic instability in public and private capital accumulation and growth: the case of Turkey 1963-1999
Date
2005Source Title
Applied Economics
Print ISSN
0003-6846
Electronic ISSN
1466-4283
Publisher
Routledge
Volume
37
Issue
2
Pages
239 - 251
Language
English
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Abstract
This study investigates the empirical relationship(s) between macroeconomic instability, public and private capital accumulation and growth in Turkey over the period 1963-1999. Time series econometric techniques, such as cointegration and impulse response analysis, are used. The results of this paper suggest that the chronic and increasing macroeconomic instability of the Turkish economy has seriously affected her capital formation and growth. Furthermore, the Turkish experience indicates that chronic macroeconomic instability seems to be a serious impediment to public investment, especially to its infrastructural component, and shatters, or even reverses, the complementarity between public and private investment in the long run. © 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd.
Keywords
Capital formationEconomic growth
Economic instability
Macroeconomics
Eastern Hemisphere
Eurasia
Turkey
World