An Empirical Study Of Banking Credit Chanel In Turkey: Credit Rationing

Monetary policies effect the reel economy through interest rate channel, Exchange rate channel, credit channel and other assets channel. Credit channel consists of bank credit channel and balance sheet channel. In this study, firstly monetary transmission mechanism is examined in the light of Keynesian and Monetarist opinions. After that, credit channel is handled with all details and tried to understand how it works in Turkey.

Asymetric information which is widely encountered problem in the financial markets, prevents to work of credit channel. And also this situation exists in Turkey. Credit rationing is One of the ways to prevent the harmful effects of asymetric information. In the end of study, we are tested whether credit rationing exist or not in turkey by econometric analysis. Key Words:Monetary Transmission Mechanism,Credit Channel, Credit rationing,VAR Analysis, Toda-Yamamoto Causality Test.