The Impact of Terrorism on Turkish Banks' Stocks and Cross-bank Variation of Abnormal Returns

Author First name, Last name, Institution

Eda Orhun, Zayed University

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Global Economy Journal

Publication Date

6-1-2020

Abstract

© 2020 World Scientific Publishing Company. This paper investigates the impact of the recent terrorist attacks on the Turkish banking sector. Specifically, an event study analysis is executed to estimate the abnormal returns of banks' stocks in Turkey. According to the results, negative and significant abnormal returns were observed on the event dates of terrorist attacks, those of which especially occurred at international points and touristic places. The study continues with a regression analysis that looks into the cross-bank variation of abnormal returns by using important bank characteristics as predictors. The regression analysis exhibits that banks with higher leverage and larger size are prone to getting more negatively affected by the terrorist attack. On the other hand, banks with higher liquidity and higher income level are likely to have less negative abnormal returns.

ISSN

1553-5304

Publisher

World Scientific

Volume

20

Issue

2

Disciplines

Business

Keywords

abnormal returns, banking sector, leverage, size, Terrorism, Turkey

Scopus ID

85087454024

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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