{"title":"Market concentration and producer prices","authors":"Huzeyfe Torun, Ahmet Duhan Yassa","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2023.100106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbrev.2023.100106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the role of sectoral market structure in the inflationary dynamics of the domestic producer prices (D-PPI) in Türkiye. We start by reporting the fact that industries with intense competition had lower producer price inflation compared to industries with low-competition in the past few years. Further investigation shows that this differentiation across industries corresponds to the years with higher exchange rate volatility. The industries characterized with low-competition have higher annual producer price inflation on average than those that are characterized with high-competition especially during the periods of high exchange rate volatility. Results are robust to a wide set of additional specifications and cast light on the role of market structure on firms’ pricing behavior in Türkiye.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"23 1","pages":"Article 100106"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Network structure of Turkish interbank market","authors":"Tuba Pelin Sümer , Süheyla Özyıldırım","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Global financial crisis has shown the importance of understanding the structure of interbank relations. In this study, we investigate the network relations based on interbank exposures in Türkiye. We estimate several network statistics and document how the network relations have changed over the time period of 2002–2021. We find that the network structures vary substantially by financial instruments such as repo, deposit, loan, security issuances, derivatives and other off-balance sheet items showing the significance of covering all type of exposures in network analysis. Using network statistics, we show that Turkish interbank network structure shows a core-periphery structure which is found to be more resilient during stress times in the literature. Finally, we find that larger banks are characterized as having higher network centrality measures as degree, clustering coefficient and closeness centrality showing the importance of these banks in terms of intermediation and substitutability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"22 4","pages":"Pages 149-161"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070122000300/pdfft?md5=de32f022fa1fe4df2631b9c9d7870615&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070122000300-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79380229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling and estimation of synchronization in size-sorted portfolio returns","authors":"Cem Çakmaklı , Richard Paap , Dick van Dijk","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the lead/lag relations between size-sorted portfolio returns through the lens of financial cycles governing these returns using a novel econometric methodology. Specifically, we develop a Markov-switching vector autoregressive model that allows for imperfect synchronization of cyclical regimes such as bull and bear market regimes in US large-, mid- and small-cap portfolio returns. This is achieved by characterizing the cycles of the mid- and small-cap portfolio returns in concordance with the cycle of large-cap portfolio returns together with potential phase shifts. We find that a three-regime model with distinct phase shifts across regimes characterizes the joint distribution of returns most adequately. These regimes are closely linked to the business cycle and small-cap portfolio returns are more sensitive to the cyclical phases than the large-cap portfolios. While all portfolios switch contemporaneously into boom and crash regimes, the large-cap portfolio leads the small-cap portfolio for switches to a moderate regime from a boom regime by a month. This suggests that small-cap portfolio adjusts with a delay to the relatively negative news compared to portfolios with larger market capitalization. We document that information diffusion accelerates in response to surprises related to the monetary policy. This reflects a link between financial returns and real economic activity from the viewpoint of ‘financial accelerator theory’ where portfolios with distinct size serve as a proxy for firm characteristics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"22 4","pages":"Pages 129-140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070122000282/pdfft?md5=c0e55656fa2f372356e166b660e3d938&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070122000282-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74394976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does exporting create employment? Evidence from Turkish manufacturing","authors":"Mustafa Özsarı , Yılmaz Kılıçaslan , Ünal Töngür","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.11.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of exporting on labor demand in Turkish manufacturing industry. By using Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) with the firm-level production and trade data of Turkish manufacturing industry, this paper is exploring the employment impact of international trade. The analysis is based on firm level data obtained from Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) and covers the period from 2003 to 2013. The estimations were carried out for different technology-oriented industries and 2-digit NACE sub-industries to see how the labor demand dynamics change. The results showed that both manufacturing exports and imports have significant and positive impact on the labor demand of the firm. The impact, on the other hand, was found to differ not only in the firms operating in different technology-oriented industries but also in different sub-industries of Turkish manufacturing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"22 4","pages":"Pages 141-148"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070122000294/pdfft?md5=b93b9bd919b8fd8f592d9494d1896b5c&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070122000294-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137269846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is bank risk appetite relevant to bank default in times of Covid-19?","authors":"Pei-Ling Lee , Chun-Teck Lye , Chin Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper aims to analyze the effect of bank risk appetite on banks' default probabilities during the year of COVID-19 in 12 countries while controlling for bank-specific and country-specific effects over time. A System Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) model of default probabilities is estimated over the periods 2010–2021. This study confirms the ‘risk-mitigation view’, in which banks with higher ESG scores are more prudent in lending and have better relationship management, reducing the probability of bank default. Underperforming banks tend to have a higher portion of risky loans in their credit portfolio and therefore demonstrating a higher default propensity. Bank risk appetite, ESG, asset quality, economic growth, and currency depreciation appear to be material drivers for bank risk. We find that a lower risk appetite ratio (corresponding to higher risk appetite) is associated with higher estimated default probability during the COVID-19 outbreak, identified through interaction with a single time dummy for 2020 (the break-out year of the pandemic).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"22 3","pages":"Pages 109-117"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S130307012200021X/pdfft?md5=fd9aefad9cf254a310e737de7018a2b4&pid=1-s2.0-S130307012200021X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81811451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covid-19, sovereign risk and monetary policy: Evidence from the European Monetary Union","authors":"Seçil Yıldırım Karaman","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the impact of Covid-19 pandemic and monetary policy measures adopted by the European Central Bank (ECB) on the sovereign risk for the European Monetary Union (EMU) countries for the period between March-2020 and November-2020 using daily data. The impact of Covid-19 and monetary policy shocks on the credit default swap rates and bond yields are investigated relying on a fixed effects panel regression model for five core (Germany, France, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium) and three periphery (Italy, Portugal and Spain) countries. To investigate the cross-country differences in responses, the interactions of the independent variables with periphery dummy and other country-specific variables are included in the regressions. The results of the empirical analysis suggest that Covid-19 shock increased the sovereign risk in the periphery EMU countries significantly and monetary policy measures have been effective in easing financial conditions in these countries. The results are insignificant for the core countries. The results also show that financial stability alleviates the negative impact of Covid-19 on the sovereign risk.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"22 3","pages":"Pages 99-107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070122000191/pdfft?md5=c5525e8bab70680c8452aa6f30932435&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070122000191-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74685191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bootstrap-DEA management efficiency and early prediction of bank failure: Evidence from 2008-2009 U.S. bank failures","authors":"Abdus Samad, Vaughn S. Armstrong","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines prediction of U.S. bank failure with a probit model that uses bias-corrected technical efficiency estimated using bootstrap data envelopment analysis as the measure of management quality. The model is tested on a sample of failed and non-failed banks during the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, 2008–2009. Results demonstrate this measure of management efficiency, together with other CAMEL factors (i.e., capital adequacy, asset quality, earnings quality, and liquidity), is significant for predicting bank failure. This measure of managerial quality allows more accurate prediction of failure than other measures. The model successfully predicts bank failure one and two years prior to failure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"22 3","pages":"Pages 119-127"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070122000208/pdfft?md5=cb3751c2643b09199abbd9189fb1f1ec&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070122000208-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78021496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exchange rate volatility and export in Turkey: Does the nexus vary across the type of commodity?","authors":"Doğukan Tarakçı , Fevzi Ölmez , Dilek Durusu-Çiftçi","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Turkey has experienced a rapid increase in exports during the last two decades. In addition, there has been a significant increase in the exchange rate and its volatility in recent years. Hence, the empirical examination of the volatility-export nexus in a comprehensive framework seems to be important to provide insights for policymakers. In this study, we investigate how the exchange rate volatility affects Turkey's exports to its major partners namely, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the UK, and the USA for the period of 2002:01–2019:12. Considering the existence of an asymmetric effect of volatility on trade, we separate positive changes of volatility from negative changes via the partial sum concept and introduce nonlinearity into the estimation and testing procedure. Our results indicate that (i) exchange rate volatility plays quite important role for Turkey's export, (ii) asymmetry matters for better understanding the volatility-export nexus, (iii) the impact of volatility is country and commodity-specific, (iv) exchange rate volatility shows higher impacts on capital and consumption goods export. Lastly, exchange rate volatility affects exports in opposite directions in the short and long-run. Both low and high volatility generally increase (decrease) Turkey's exports in the short-run (long-run). These results provide important implications for policymakers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 77-89"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070122000117/pdfft?md5=73c8f965b433fc4dc0df254147c598fc&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070122000117-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137195427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How can a central bank exit quantitative easing without rapidly shrinking its balance sheet?","authors":"Atsushi Tanaka","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An important question for the major central banks of the industrialized world is how to design desirable strategies to exit quantitative easing (QE). At the exit, if a central bank needs to reduce rapidly the liquidity created by its balance sheet expansion, issuing new interest-bearing liabilities would be preferable to rapidly shrinking the balance sheet by selling existing assets, both for the stability of those assets' markets and to be able to keep capital losses from being reflected in the balance sheet under amortized-cost accounting. Given that existing assets accumulated during the quantitative easing period have low interest returns, and new liabilities to be issued in the quantitative tightening period would have high interest payouts, the central bank may run a loss that may threaten its solvency, which may force the bank to expand the monetary base above the level that is consistent with the central bank's ideal price stability path. This study considers a central bank that exits QE by issuing liabilities and examines an optimal exit strategy while maintaining the solvency by constructing a simple dynamic optimization model. The model is then applied to the Bank of Japan and the Federal Reserve to examine their possible exits.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 91-98"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070122000129/pdfft?md5=fc58689cfab9b4a9c19b9d4c186c5c7b&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070122000129-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88372885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the impacts of safeguard actions: Evidence from Turkey","authors":"Volkan Sezgin Ph.D.","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2022.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article analyses Turkey's safeguard (SG) actions using a renovated approach to the measurement of the impacts of the SG duties with empirical application introduced by Bown and McCulloch (2004). We examine the trade impacts of 16 safeguard duties, covering 52 different 4 and 6-digit Harmonized System (HS) product categories, implemented by Turkey between 2003 and 2013, and we aim to reveal whether these measures had discriminatory impacts on those trading partners, whose imports represented a threat to the domestic importing industry. Since Turkish applications of SGs vary widely in terms of their duration, target markets and forms, this makes Turkey an interesting case study for 2003–2013 period, as Turkey mostly used SG applications based on additional financial obligations, not in the form of quotas after 2014. The empirical methodology is based on the approach introduced by Bown and McCulloch (2004), which serves as an attempt to approximate dynamic specifications in the context of cross-sectional data. Our findings show that the SGs applied by Turkey during the period of 2003–2013 effectively had a discriminatory impact on imports from major trading partners, and quotas and tariff rate quotas were more effective than tariffs for restricting imports.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"Pages 49-56"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S130307012200004X/pdfft?md5=631dbc9723b8d1bc77777d69810d6252&pid=1-s2.0-S130307012200004X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73106022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}