Abstract:

(Foreign Direct Investment And Banking Sector Case In Turkey (1990–2005)) In recent years the satisfactory developments in the Turkish economy and the positive expectations related to the deliberations started for the membership of Turkey to the European Union caused an increasing effect on the foreign direct investment in Turkey. Another sector including foreign direct investment densely in Turkey was the banking sector. In this scope the objective of this study was to determine the reasons of the foreign banks taking place in the banking sector developing with the foreign direct investment in Turkey and to find out the effects of the foreign bank participations on the Turkish banking sector. The reasons of the foreign bank participations in Turkish banking sector was determined by a survey study and the effects of these participations on the Turkish banking sector were obtained empirically with an econometric model built in the study.

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