Financial stress index for turkey

This study presents a financial stress index for Turkey on a daily basis. The index covers the time period between 01.08.2002 and 31.01.2013, and it presents the summation of stress levels collected through the Banking Sector, Public Sector, Stock Market and Foreign Exchange Market. So as to enable the financial institutions and policy makers to determine the financial stress on the sub-markets and financial sector, and manage the monetary policy, an indicator with high frequency was aimed to be provided. By use of the financial stress analysis, the Turkish Economy has been broken down into six different periods, namely (i) the high stress period (ii) the normal stress period (iii) the global crisis stress period (iv) the low stress period (v) the increasing stress period (vi) the decreasing stress period and the analyses related to each of these periods are presented.