Özet:

The ultimate goal of economic activities is to increase prosperity byi mproving the qualities of goods and ervices.They choose an open economy to this goal.Nowadays, import is the most effective tool in the interaction of countries and globalization. Imports are influenced by factors such as income level, interest in imported goods, exchange rate, liberalization and hindrance of foreign trade. The most important factors determining the importation of countries are exchange rate and economic growth. In this study conducted for Turkey between 1994-2018, the relationship between imports, economic growth and exchange rate was investigated using by unitroot, cointegration and causality. According to the results of the analysis, cointegration, the long-term relationship between the variables was determined. The result was that short-term waves would converge to long-term balance in less than a year. A positive correlation between imports and economic growth was determined. In addition, the negative relationship between imports and the exchange rate has been determined. Moreover, a one-way causality relationship between economic growth and imports has been identified. Another causality relationship was concluded to be one-way from economic growth to exchange rate.

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