THE EFFECTS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES ON TURKISH EXPORT

In this study, the effects of research and development (R&D) expenditures on Turkish real export per capita in Turkish economy were explored for the period 1990–2014 by using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. Average per capita real income of trading partners and real exchange rate were added to model as control variables. The overall results from the estimated long run coefficients pointed out that research and development (R&D) expenditures and average per capita real income of trading partners affect positively, and real exchange rate affects negatively to Turkish real export per capita