The factors affecting the natural gas prices in Turkey

The aim of this study is to examine the long-run relationship between natural gas prices and brent, coal, gold prices, inflation rates and US Dollar Exchange Rates. This study consideres the monthly data in Turkey from January 1995 to December 2018. To reach the aim of this study unit root tests and VAR analysis was performed to perform Johansen Cointegration Test, Granger Causality Test, Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), Variance Decomposition, Impulse Response Function and Multilinear Regression Analysis. According to the results of the Johansen cointegration test it is found that the variables are cointegrated in long term and according to results of Granger causality test it is found that there is a causality from gold prices, brent prices, coal prices and US Dollar Exchange rate to the natural gas prices. In this study it is founded that the results are supporting the results of similar studies in the literature.