Turkey is at a crossroad in the age of globalization: Testing the role of Turkey's trade competitiveness in her region
1980’den sonra Türkiye, açık ve rekabetçi bir ekonomik yapı kurmak için önemli kararlar almış ve bunun sonucu bölgede Türkiye’nin rolü de artmıştır. Dünyada ve bölgesinde Türk ekonomisinin artan önemini düşündüğümüzde, bu çalışma Türkiye’nin bölge ülkeleri için, rekabet ve diğer ticaret performans ölçümleri açısından bir rol model olup olamayacağını araştırmaktadır. Bu anlamda çalışma, Balassa’nın RCA endeksi, Ticaret Yoğunluğu ve Spearman Sıra Korelasyonu gibi ölçülebilir göstergelerle, ülkenin ticaretteki değişen uzmanlaşmasını açıklamaya çalışmaktadır.
After 1980, Turkey has taken important steps in order to create an open and competitive economic structure and the position held by Turkey in the region has risen very quickly. To take account of this growing importance of Turkey’s economy in the region and the world, the paper questions whether Turkey can be a role model for the region’s countries, particularly MENA countries and the new EU-12 members or not, in terms of competitiveness and other trade performance indicators. In this respect, the paper focuses on quantifiable aspects of trade performances such as Balassa’s Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index, Trade Intensity and the Spearman’s Rank Coefficient that help to explain the changing patterns of trade specialization of the country.
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- ISSN: 1986-1303
- Yayın Aralığı: Yılda 2 Sayı
- Başlangıç: 2008
- Yayıncı: Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi