Siyaset Ekonomi ve Yönetim Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Ragıp YILMAZ

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Optimum Currency Areas,Euro Area,Adjustment,Panel Data

Özet: This study intends to solve the necessity whether Turkey will become a membership of Euro Area by making use of traditional panel data models. The problem with such question can be stated if Turkey becomes a membership of Euro Area or not. In order to solve the problem, intra-industry trade and trade unionization are selected as main variables; urbanization and government debt are selected as control variables. Related to these variables, panel data analysis based on Grubel-Lloyd Index, number of trade union member, urban population and amount of the public debt is analyzed and effect of these variables are tested on real GDP. The findings obtained support Turkey’s membership of Euro Area in terms of intra-industry trade, unionization and government debt except urbanization

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