The decision by Turkey’s central bank to begin using the one-week repo rate as its key policy tool looks less like an effort to simplify its monetary policy framework (as has been suggested by some), and more like a way to create room to raise market interest rates if necessary without incurring the wrath of President Erdogan.
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