Abstract:

Before the global financial crisis of 2007-08, most of our knowledge about unconventional monetary policy came from studies of Japan’s lost decade. Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, central banks of advanced economies faced the zero bound of nominal interest rates. In return for that the central banks have responded to the recent financial crisis with unconventional monetary policy measures. On the other hand, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey has adopted an unconventional approach since May 2010. In this study, we ask the question why central banks need to resort to unconventional monetary policy measures and to what properties of these instruments’. In addition, we present the transmission mechanism of quantitative easing and the international experiences with unconventional monetary policy measures. To this end, we use the Granger causality test in order to investigate the relationship between inflation and the real exchange rate changes as one of the major determinants during this period for the Turkish economy. Our analysis reveal that the changes in inflation are correlated with real exchange rate differentials.

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