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The 2008 financial crisis had important consequences first in the US economy and then in the global economy. This has caused a significant change especially in the monetary policy practices of developing country central banks. The American Central Bank was the first monetary authority to apply for these practices. With these applications called as non-traditional monetary policy, an extraordinary amount of government bonds and mortgage-backed securities were made. As a result, the global liquidity level increased. Thus, foreign financial institutions having access to liquidity facilities and foreign capital inflows into the country has increased in Turkey. In 2010, as a necessity of the current developments, policy tools that monitor both price stability and financial stability were designed. These policy tools aimed to prevent the risks that might occur in asset and credit markets as a result of fluctuations in foreign capital movements. The asymmetric interest rate corridor is one of the policy tools that has been implied in this period. Therefore, this policy tool is important for the financial stability target of the Central Bank. With this policy tool, the CBRT has the opportunity to influence loan and deposit transactions without changing the policy interest rate. Thus, it is aimed to have an impact on both speculative capital inflows and credit markets at the same time. Accordingly, this study aims to investigate the effect of the asymmetric interest rate corridor, which is implied between 2010:5-2018:5, on financial markets. The upper limit of the corridor, the lower limit of the corridor, BIST100, the overnight repo rate, and the dollar / TL exchange rate are the variables considered in the empirical analyses. VAR is preferred as the analysis method and the analysis is carried out with data at monthly frequency. According to empirical results, the lower corridor positively affects the overnight repo rate and it affects the BIST100 index negatively. In addition, it is seen that the upper limit of the corridor has no effect on the variables used in the study. |
