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Slowing credit offered Turkey a route away from consumption driven external imbalances in early 2021. Robin Brooks, Jonathan Fortun and Ugras Ulku connect the previous year’s credit expansion with reserve losses and a wider current account deficit. They argue that preventing excessive lira appreciation would help redirect the economy toward exports and investment.
Abstract
Slowing credit offered Turkey a route away from consumption driven external imbalances in early 2021. Robin Brooks, Jonathan Fortun and Ugras Ulku connect the previous year’s credit expansion with reserve losses and a wider current account deficit. They argue that preventing excessive lira appreciation would help redirect the economy toward exports and investment.
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Robin Brooks, Jonathan Fortun, Ugras Ulku (2021). Global Macro Views: Macro Rebalancing in Turkey. Institute of International Finance.