Entries by Burçin Kısacıkoğlu

Unorthodox Monetary Policy Leads to Rising Inflation and a Depreciating Currency

When the Central Bank of Turkey began cutting interest rates in the face of rising inflation in the autumn of 2021, it resulted not only in a sharply depreciated lira and skyrocketing inflation, but also to higher longer-term interest rates for government bonds, consumer loans and other market rates. That is the central finding of […]