DID THE 2008 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AFFECT THE BANKING CREDITS? A CASE OF REGIONS OF TURKEY

Abstract

In 2008 the world faced a global crisis which is started from the US; thus it is named as a “US Great Recession. In this paper, we investigate whether the 2008 financial crisis has an effect on Turkish banking credits in regional case. For this aim we use Non-specialized Loans Deposit which is collected from The Banks Association of Turkey as an annual data. The period of the paper is 2004-2014. The selected regions are 11 NUTS1 regions; thus we have panel data with 121 observations. We use two dummy variable; first dummy values are 1 for 2008 and 0 for other years, a second dummy variable is 1 for 2008 and successor years; 0 for other years. The first dummy shows if the crisis affects only one year, the second dummy shows if the crisis affects crisis year and successor years.