{"title":"Central Bank Independence and Economic Performance in Caucasus and Central Asian Countries","authors":"Islam Rizvanoghlu, Abdulkadir Nagac","doi":"10.15549/JEECAR.V5I2.234","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the association of both central bank independence (CBI) and financial market development with the economic performance of Turkey together with six former centrally planned former Soviet Union countries located in Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA countries). First, we construct a legal independence index (LVAW) for central banks. Then, we analyze the relationship between central bank independence and macroeconomic variables. Our findings suggest that there is a positive correlation between central bank independence and GDP growth, whereas the sign of correlation between CBI and GDP deflator is negative. Besides, the economies with higher level of financial deepening are also associated with high CBI.","PeriodicalId":37422,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2018-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15549/JEECAR.V5I2.234","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper explores the association of both central bank independence (CBI) and financial market development with the economic performance of Turkey together with six former centrally planned former Soviet Union countries located in Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA countries). First, we construct a legal independence index (LVAW) for central banks. Then, we analyze the relationship between central bank independence and macroeconomic variables. Our findings suggest that there is a positive correlation between central bank independence and GDP growth, whereas the sign of correlation between CBI and GDP deflator is negative. Besides, the economies with higher level of financial deepening are also associated with high CBI.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR) is a multi-disciplinary journal related to the Eurasia regional economics, finance, management, marketing, international affairs, and other business-related disciplines. By Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the IEECA refers to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and five post-Soviet Central Asian states: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The JEECAR Journal is committed to the editorial principles of all aspects of publication ethics and publication malpractice as assigned by the Committee on Public Ethics. Any paper submitted to the journal must be original, previously unpublished, and currently not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All articles in the printed version of the journal are peer-reviewed. The review process is a double-blind process. Neither the authors nor the reviewers know who wrote or reviewed the article. Per standard practice, only the Editor assigned to handle a paper knows the identity of the authors and the reviewers.