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Turkey’s November 2021 currency selloff resembled the 2018 crisis in scale but occurred with a stronger external balance. Robin Brooks, Jonathan Fortun and Ugras Ulku attribute the pressure to continued rate cuts, changing market psychology and the reversal of speculative inflows. They interpret the fall as overshooting and retain their contemporary fair value estimate of 9.50 lira per dollar.
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Turkey’s November 2021 currency selloff resembled the 2018 crisis in scale but occurred with a stronger external balance. Robin Brooks, Jonathan Fortun and Ugras Ulku attribute the pressure to continued rate cuts, changing market psychology and the reversal of speculative inflows. They interpret the fall as overshooting and retain their contemporary fair value estimate of 9.50 lira per dollar.
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Robin Brooks, Jonathan Fortun, Ugras Ulku (2021). Global Macro Views: Turkish Lira Weakness. Institute of International Finance.