Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45424 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 0905
Publisher: 
TÜSİAD-Koç University Economic Research Forum, Istanbul
Abstract: 
The new era of Post-Washington Consensus (PWC) promoted under the auspices of multilateral organizations such as IMF and the World Bank centres on the need to develop strong regulatory institutions, especially the realm of banking and finance in developing countries. By focusing on the Turkish experience in the aftermath of the 2001 crisis, the article identifies the positive features of the new era the PWC in terms of the banking sector which as a result has become much more robust in terms of its ability to withstand external shocks and to avert future financial crises. At the same time, however, the article highlights some of the limitations of the new era. Important limitations are identified in terms of the distributional impact of the regulatory reforms with the banking sector and notably the foreign banks emerging as the major beneficiaries of this process. Additional limitations are observed in the areas of consumer protection and competition regulation. These weaknesses, in turn, highlight the limits of the emerging regulatory state in the era of the PWC. Similarly, significant weaknesses are evident in terms of the ability of the banking system to finance the real economy, and notably the small and medium sized businesses.
Subjects: 
regulatory state
post-Washington consensus
banking
Turkey
JEL: 
G21
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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