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Item Open Access Productivity and growth in an unstable emerging market economy: the case of Turkey, 1960-2004(Routledge, 2009) Ismihan, M.; Ozcan, K. M.This paper explores sources of growth in the Turkish economy by performing growth accounting exercises over the 1960-2004 period and relevant subperiods. It also analyzes the role of a number of important policy-related factors, such as infrastructure investment, macroeconomic instability, and imports, on total factor productivity (TFP) by performing cointegration and impulse response analyses. The results suggest that both TFP and capital accumulation were crucial sources of growth during the sample period. Nevertheless, TFP growth displayed enormous variation from 1960 to 2004. The descriptive and empirical evidence suggests that TFP is positively affected by imports and public infrastructure investment and negatively affected by macroeconomic instability. Copyright © 2009 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved.Item Open Access Total factor productivity and macroeconomic instability(Routledge, 2011) Berument, Hakan; Dincer, N. N.; Mustafaoglu, Z.Total factor productivity (TFP) is an important component of growth for most countries. This article assesses the role of macroeconomic instability on TFP growth. We consider volatility in inflation, openness of an economy and financial market deepness as measures of macroeconomic instability. Empirical evidence provided from Turkey suggests that volatility of openness and financial market deepness reduce TFP growth, whereas volatility of inflation increases TFP growth. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.