Economists should take sides in discussions on the basis of their research conclusions, and not do research in line with their political stance. The...

Concerning Turkey’s major trading partners, growth estimate was revised down by 0.2 points for European Union and by 0.3 points for Middle East and...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank (MPC-CB) held its April meeting yesterday. The MPC decided to cut the policy rate and the interest...

You cannot develop breathtaking innovations if the legislation on intellectual property rights is not accompanied by a functional court system I...

Will the MPC reduce the policy rate? It might, by 0.25 points if it decided to cut the interest rate corridor. But it would be quite difficult to...

    I was back in Israel this week. And I have to confess; it is good to be a Turkish traveler in Israel nowadays. Many ordinary Israeli...

The exchange rate regime almost becomes a pre-determined fixed-growth exchange rate regime. Before the latest shower of data, I was talking about a...

Eighty-five percent of the dollars in circulation are in non-American pockets. There is no better confidence indicator than this. The Federal...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government is pursuing an Abdullah Öcalan-centered policy to resolve the Kurdish question. This ...