Abstract:

In this paper, with the help of Hatemi-J asymmetric causality test (2012) we analyze the relationship between financial development and agricultural credits for the period of December2005 October-2013 in Turkey. The paper, which we state stationary levels of series by KPSS unit root test (1992), aims to show the advantage of Hatemi-J asymmetric causality test (2012) which takes into consideration of asymmetric information in financial markets and separates positive and negative shocks. For this reason, we also analyze Hacker and Hatemi-J (2006) bootstrap causality test. As a result of this monthly data analysis, although there is no any relationship between the variables in negative shock situations, agricultural credits have impact on financial development in positive shocks situations. Therefore, agricultural sector has a critical place in Turkish financial structure.

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