The relative efficiency of monetary and fiscal policy in Turkey

There are specific macroeconomic objectives that every country economy would like to achieve. To reach these objectives, mostly used instruments are monetary and fiscal policy. It is a controversial issue which of these policies is relatively more efficient. On the other hand, it is vitally important to detect efficient policy tools in terms of being used the source of country efficiently, achieving macroeconomic objectives faster, and dealing with economic crises. In this study, which of monetary and fiscal policy is more efficient on the Turkish economy has been tried to detect with the help of an econometric analysis. Therefore, the relationship between the rate of non-interest expenditures, budget revenues, and broad money supply (M2) to GDP and GDP growth rate has been analysed by the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method with a data set spanning from 2003:q2 to 2016:q1. According to the analysis results, it has been concluded that monetary policy is an efficient policy while fiscal policy is non-efficient policy for Turkish economy.