Turkey: Just what is Basci up to?

The Turkish central bank governor’s unorthodox policies have riled, muddled and, say some, outsmarted markets. He thinks they work. But is he trying to do too much with so many different instruments and targets?

Erdem Basci, Turkey's central bank governor
Erdem Basci, Turkey’s central bank governor

Everyone recognizes Turkey’s challenges with hot-money flows, especially over the past two years. Just last month, for example, the central bank governor noted a “re-acceleration in capital inflows“. But the central bank governor’s unconventional policies and multiple targets to deal with this have brought hostility, confusion and praise. “He’ll either win the Nobel Prize or it’ll end in tears,” was the verdict of a prominent emerging markets economist on Erdem Basci’s policies.

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