Growth Performance of the Turkish Economy: The Role of the Informal Sector

Ceyhun Elgin and Oguz Oztunalı
Additional contact information
Oguz Oztunalı: Bogazici University, Economics

No 4, EY International Congress on Economics II (EYC2015), November 5-6, 2015, Ankara, Turkey from Ekonomik Yaklasim Association

Abstract: The presence of informality and its connection with economic growth has been a contentious issue on which the current literature has failed to generate a consensus. In this study, first, we investigate the growth performance of the Turkish economy through the lenses of a simple growth accounting exercise. Moreover, we also extend the growth accounting framework to account for the presence of an informal sector and give emphasis on how the presence of a relatively large informal sector in Turkey (about 28 % of GDP, according to recent estimates) affects growth of the official economy as well as its determinants.

Keywords: Economic Growth; Growth Accounting; Turkish Economy; Informal Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E26 O17 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 2 pages
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara, nep-cse, nep-cwa, nep-iue and nep-mac
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://ekonomikyaklasim.org/eyc2015/userfiles/downloads/_Paper%204.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eyd:cp2015:4

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in EY International Congress on Economics II (EYC2015), November 5-6, 2015, Ankara, Turkey from Ekonomik Yaklasim Association
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ozan Eruygur (eruygur@gmail.com).