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In this study, the inflationary process of Turkish economy has been reinvestigated by using a quarterly data set spanning from 1987:Q1 to 2004:Q4. The approaches of “Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic” due to Sargent-Wallace(1981) and the Fiscal Theory of Price Level (FTPL) due to Woodford (1995) have been utilized in the study. The approach of the Sargent-Wallace’s theory claims that, under certain conditions, monetary arithmetic is misleading and the money supply is endogenously determined to sustain the budget constraint. However, according to the FTPL, the inflationary effects of the government budget deficits are caused by debt crises since the monetary authority does not haveto act to balance the budget deficit. To investigate the dynamic relationship among the money supply, budget deficit and inflation empirically, VAR models have been employed. Estimation results show that money supply and budget deficit statistically signicant effect on inflation in Turkey. Empirical analysis performed in the study leads to result that inflation in Turkey has both monetary and fiscal origins. From this result, it can be inferred that a policy design to combat with inflation, monetary and fiscal dimensions should be handled all together.

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