Fiscal Policy and External Performance : The Turkish Experience

In 1980 Turkey embarked on a far-reaching stabilization and liberalization program, which contributed to export-led growth and a significant movement toward both domestic and external equilibrium. Later, as fiscal policy was partly reoriented from a restrictive to an expansionary stance while adhering to a flexible exchange rate policy, inflationary pressures intensified but the external current account did not deteriorate. Counterfactual simulations, performed with a computational general equilibrium model, suggest that Turkey would have experienced a significantly lower inflation rate, with only a small reduction in growth, if it had adopted a less expansionary fiscal stance.
Publication date: March 1989
ISBN: 9781451921908
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Economics- Macroeconomics , Economics / General , International - Economics , domestic demand , fiscal policy , fiscal stance , balance of payments , equilibrium model

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