Impacts of the relation between saving and investment on capital mobility

As the financial markets of developing countries have become more highly integrated into the global market, both the determinants of capital flows and the degree of capital mobility have gained importance. Determinants of capital flows may affect policy decision making and the degree of capital mobility may affect the strength of a policy?s effects on the economy. Since 1980 capital inflows in Turkey have increased as a result of financial liberalization, hence Turkish economy has flourished. Financial crises appeared in Turkish economy because of the fact that financial liberalization started at an unseasonable time and in an inconvenient economic environment. This also increased incompatibility of politics with the financial liberalization. Thus, in order to reach efficient policy and decision making, and in order to overcome the instable structure it is required to investigate and interpret Turkey?s degree of capital mobility.The aim of this study is to find out which type of resources has been used to finance which types of investment and to identify Turkey?s degree of capital mobility. Therefore, based on the correlation between the domestic saving rate and domestic investment rate Feldstein-Horioka model was employed. For this purpose, co-integration equation has been obtained between domestic saving rate and domestic investment rate, while long-run and saving retention coefficient has been interpreted as a degree of capital mobility. The data comprise the period between 1962?2007.Results of the study show that, presence of capital mobility in Turkey and savings into Turkish economy usually finance private investments. Nonetheless, investment profit obtained from the prior period has affected the investments of the latter period more than the savings made during the current period. Financial crises in Turkey especially 2001 February crisis express that although consumer?s savings increase, investments are decreasing. In the meantime, along with the total financial liberalization of 1989 and adoption of convertibility, and due to the lack of relationship between real and financial segments, it is observed that the long-term relationship between investment and savings has disappeared