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Breaking the Bank: Effects of Domestic Conflict on the Banking Sector in Turkey.

Authors :
Arı, Emine
Bayer, Reşat
Kemahlıoğlu, Özge
Source :
Terrorism & Political Violence; Nov/Dec2024, Vol. 36 Issue 8, p1083-1104, 22p
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

Although banks occupy a central role in most (post-)conflict situations, there is a perplexing lack of attention to them in studies of political violence. As a case experiencing domestic conflict with varying degrees in the last decades, Turkey offers opportunities to understand how the banking sector, including state deposit banks, responds to such political violence. We focus on the short-term impact of political violence and address the following questions: Do all actors in the sector respond in similar ways to security threats? Is there variation according to conflict intensity? We shed light on these puzzles with an analysis of original data on bank ownership, bank branches, bank deposit amounts, and bank credits. We show that banks with profit incentives respond to conflict by lowering their presence in provinces hit by these attacks. In comparison, our finding that deposits in high conflict intensity areas are not affected suggests that it is indeed economic actors outside high intensity regions that are more sensitive to short-time changes in security compared to local ones. Overall, the results demonstrate that political violence hurts banks' presence in conflict locations and their presence matters through credit provision to these areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
09546553
Volume :
36
Issue :
8
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Terrorism & Political Violence
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
180590972
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2023.2252104