Ardahan Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

Yazarlar: Mustafa Tevfik KARTAL, Abdurrahman ÇETİN, Ömer Faruk TAN

Konular:İktisat

Anahtar Kelimeler:Granger Causality Test,Interest Rates,LDR,Turkey

Özet: There has been a development in financial indicators with the banking sector come up with the growth process after 2002. Some of the important indicators are asset size, loan volume, and return on equity. One of the other important indicators is LDR. LDR was at the level of 71.18% as of 2006 end, exceeding 100% for the first time in March 2012 and reached 100.38%, after peaking at the level of 123.9% in June 2018, it entered into a downward trend and became 112% in September 2019. It is thought that the increasing trend in LDR puts pressure on interest rates. For this aim, causality relationship between LDR and selected interest rate types is examined in Turkey by using monthly data for the period of 2006/1-2019/9. As a result of the study, it is defined that there is a causality relationship between LDR and deposit interest rate. Therefore, necessary precautions should be taken to keep the development of LDR under control and hence prevent the increase of deposit interest rates, which is the main source of funding, in order to prevent the increase in the loan interest rate in Turkey.

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