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This study aims to assess Turkey's position relative to European countries with respect to the optimum currency areas (OCA) criteria, taking Germany as the center country and employing Mahalanobis distance as a similarity measure. To this end, the authors followed a novel approach in the application of Hodrick-Prescott and Baxter-King filters to the industrial production series and the real interest...