• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.143-217
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• 1995

거시모형(巨視模型)을 통하여 과거 우리나라의 고성장(高成長)을 이해하고 주요(主要) 정책변수(政策變數)와 외생변수(外生變數)가 경제에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위해서는 중장기적으로 안정적이고 신뢰할 수 있는 거시모형(巨視模型)이 작성되어야 한다. 그러나 단순히 과거의 적합도(適合度)를 향상시키거나 단기(短期)시뮬레이션의 결과만을 토대로 작성된 거시모형은 중장기적인 안정성(安定性) 내지는 신뢰성(信賴性)을 확보하지 못할 수도 있다. 본고(本稿)에서는 거사모형의 작성에 있어서도 구조적(構造的) VAR모형(模型)에서처럼 모형의 중장기 특성을 파악하는 것이 중요함을 지적하였다. 구조적 VAR모형에서는 대부분의 이론이 수용할 수 있는 "수요충격(需要衝擊)은 장기에 실질성장에 영향을 미치지 않는다"는 최소한의 가정(假定)이 모형(模型)에 처음부터 직접적(直接的)으로 내재(內在)되도록 하고 있으나, 본고에서는 거시전망모형(巨視展望模型)의 작성을 위하여 중장기적(中長期的)인 시뮬레이션을 통하여 간접적(間接的)으로 위의 가정(假定)을 확인하는 방법을 택하였다. 이에 추가하여 중장기 전망을 시도했을 때 다른 나라의 경험과 크게 배치되는 결과가 나온 경우에는 모형을 수정하는 것이 필요함을 투자(投資) 및 소비식(消費式)의 예(例)를 들어서 논의하였다. 본고(本稿)의 공헌은, 중장기적으로 안정적이고 신뢰할 수 있는 거시전망모형(巨視展望模型)의 작성에 있어서 중장기시뮬레이션과 중장기전망의 결과가 모형작성자의 선험적(先驗的) 기대(期待)에 수렴될 때까지 모형의 수정을 해나가는 반복과정을 전망모형(展望模型) 작성에 있어 하나의 방법론(方法論)으로 제시한 데 있다.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.1-22
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• 2016

We analyzed the international comovements and structural changes in the quarterly real GDP by the Markov-switching vector autoregressive model (MS-VAR) from 1971(1) to 2016(1). The main results of this study were as follows. First, the business cycle phenomenon that occurs in the models or individual time series in real GDP has been grasped through the MS-VAR models. Unlike previous studies, this study showed the significant comovements, asymmetry and structural changes in the MS-VAR model using a real GDP across countries. Second, even if there was a partial difference, there were remarkable structural changes in the economy contraction regime(recession), such as 1988(2) ending the global oil shock crisis and 2007(3) starting the global financial crisis by the MS-VAR model. Third, large-scale structural changes were generated in the economic expansion and/or contraction regime simultaneously among countries. We found that the second world oil shocks that occurred after the first global oil shocks of 1973 and 1974 were the main reasons that caused the large-scale comovements of the international real GDP among countries. In addition, the spillover between Korea and 5 countries has been weak during the Asian currency crisis from 1997 to 1999, but there was strong transmission between Korea and 5 countries at the end of 2007 including the period of the global financial crisis. Fourth, it showed characteristics that simultaneous correlation appeared to be high due to the country-specific shocks generated for each country with the regime switching using real GDP since 1973. Thus, we confirmed that conclusions were consistent with a number of theoretical and empirical evidence available, and the macro-economic changes were mainly caused by the global shocks for the past 30 years. This study found that the global business cycles were due to large-scale asymmetric shocks in addition to the general changes, and then showed the main international comovements and/or structural changes through country-specific shocks.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.27-48
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• 2011

This paper investigates the extent of global and regional integration in East Asia using stock price index as a measure of economic performance. We employ a structural VAR model to separate the underlying shocks into "global", "regional" and "country-specific" shocks. The estimation results show that country-specific shocks still play a dominant role in East Asia although their role appears to have declined over time, especially after the 1997 financial crisis. Global and regional shocks are responsible for small but increasing shares of stock price fluctuations in all countries. The results indicate that the stock markets in East Asia remain dissimilar and are subject to asymmetric shocks in comparison to European countries.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.137-159
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• 2000

재무경제학에서 많은 연구들이 주식가격과 거시경제활동과의 이론적 모형을 설정하고 이를 점증하고자 하였다. 이 분야에서 지금까지 주로 ARMAX 모형이나 VAR 모형들이 사용되어 왔으나, 이러한 방법들은 주식가격과 거시경제변수들간의 장기적인 균형관계를 파악할 수 없다는 한계점을 안고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구의 목적은 이러한 한계점을 극복할 수 있는 VECM을 이용하여 우리나라 증권시장과 거시경제변수들간의 장기적인 균형관계를 규명하고자 함에 있다. 검증결과, 모든 변수들의 시계열이 불안정적인 것으로 확인된 관계로, 다변량시계열의 공적분 관계를 검증하는 Johansen 검증을 VECM 모형의 구조 안에서 실시하였다. 종합주가지수와 거시경제변수들간에는 장기적 안정관계를 나타내는 공적분관계가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 종합주가지수와 거시경제변수들간의 관계는 대부분 이론적인 관계에서 예상하는 부호와 동일한 부호를 갖으며 통계적으로도 유의하였다. 그리고, VECM의 설명력이 종래에 주로 사용하였던 VAR 모형의 설명력보다 더 우월하게 나타났다.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.1-31
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• 2008

Before the financial crisis in 1997, Korean bond markets had been those of corporate bonds with relatively high market yield. During the period, most of major institutional investors tend to utilize passive strategies such as buying and holding. After the crisis, however, they could not help choosing active bond management strategies because of lowed yield level and intensified competition among the financial institutions. This study is forced on the yield curve, which is the reflection of all information on the bond investment environments. The study also make analysis on the major economic and securities market factors and its structural relationship with the shape of the curve such as level, curvature and slope. For these purposes, an empirical model based on the Nelson-Siegel Model is estimated with the data during $1999{\sim}2006$. Out-of-sample forecasting is also made to test the usefulness of the estimated model. In addition, the dependent variables which are the estimates of level and slope are estimated on the macro variables and securities market variables. VAR and SUR models are used for the estimation. Estimation results show that level and slope of the yield curve are influenced by the target call rate change, exchange rate change rate, inflation rate. These results provide practical implications for the active managements in the overall treasury bond markets.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.1-23
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• 2014

This paper has studied the monetary policy in Korea with a time varying VAR model using four key macroeconomic variables. First, inclusion of the exchange rate was a crucial factor in evaluating Korean monetary policy since the monetary policy demonstrated sensitivity to exchange rate movements during the crisis periods of both the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and the global financial crisis of 2008. Second, a specification of the stochastic volatilities in TVP-VAR model is important in explaining excessive movements of all variables in the sample. The overall moderation of variables in 2000s was more or less due to a reduction of the stochastic volatilities but also somewhat due to the macroeconomic fundamental structures captured by impulse response functons. Third, the degree of the monetary policy effectiveness of inflation was mitigated in recent periods but with increased persistence. Lastly, the monetary policy stance towards inflation stabilization has advanced ever since the inflation targeting scheme was adopted. However, there still seems to be a room for improvement in this aspect since the degree of the monetary policy stance towards inflation stabilization was relatively weaker than to output stabilization.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.1-40
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• 2007

This paper mainly estimates a trajectory of GDP induced by variations in fiscal expenditure and taxation policy using three variable structural VAR models. By assigning different combinations of identifying restrictions on the disturbances and measuring the corresponding fiscal multipliers, we compare how robust the estimated values of fiscal multipliers are with respect to the restrictions. Then, considering the dependency of Korean economy on the foreign sector, we extend the three variable SVARs to four variable ones by adding a variable reflecting external shocks. Empirical analyses into the Korean quarterly data (from 1979 to 2000) with the three variable SVARs reveal that the size and the significance of the estimated fiscal multipliers in Korea are very small and low or they decay very fast. Results from the four variable SVARs confirm these results while the significance of the effectiveness of fiscal policy is enhanced in some cases.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.309-330
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• 2009

This paper analyzes comparatively the effects of changes in real effective exchange rates on the business fluctuations of the cases of Korea and Japan employing structural vector auto-regression(S-VAR) model which uses quarterly data for the five variables of real effective exchange rates, GDP gap, real interest rates, oil prices, inflation rates for the period of 1980-2006. The paper employes impulse-response analysis and variance decompositions. The paper finds that real exchange rate depreciations are contractionay for the case of Korea while they are expansionary for the case of Japan. These results are consistent with the prevailing empirical results that real exchange rate depreciations are contractionary for developing countries while expansionary for advanced countries.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.37-60
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• 1992

This paper applies a Structural VAR approach to a 4 variable system in real GNP, M2, GNP deflator and nominal monthly earnings, disentangling 4 structural shocks, i.e., aggregate demand and supply shocks, wage pushes and various forms of regulations reinforced especially during stabilization process. Preliminary diagnostic tests confirm that the log level of each time series has at least one unit root, though the evidence is somewhat ambiguous for real GNP. One co-integration relationship is found among 4 variables, while no co-integration is found in a subsystem consisting of nomina) variables. The absence of co-integration among nominal variables strongly suggested that money is not neutral even in the long-run. The reduced form is estimated and the structural form is recovered using 6 additional identifying restrictions. Recovered structural shocks are able to capture main episodes of past 20 years, ranging from first and second oil shocks, to strong stabilization policy of early 80's and rapid wage hikes of late 80's. Overall responses of the economy to each structural shock are usually consistent with the standard Keynesian predictions, though some responses seem to be specific to Korean economic environment.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.133-146
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• 2015

This study is to investigate the causal relationship between exchange hedge and the net income of the shipbuilder through the unit root test and co-integration and vector autoregressive model(Vector Autoregressive Model: VAR). First, quarter net income of shipbuilders to order a unit root tests from 2000 to 2013 was used as a value after the Johnson transformation. In the same period, the return on bond futures(KTBF), three years bond yield(KTB3Y), America-Korea exchange differences are weekly data for each quarterly difference in value was converted by utilization, shipbuilding shares after log transformation which it was used. Also, structural change point investigation analysis to verify that looked to take advantage of the structural changes occur in the exchange hedge strategies affecting net income in the shipbuilding industry. Between the exchange hedge and net income of shipbuilders in structural change points detection and analysis showed that structural changes occur starting in 2004. In other words, strategy of shipbuilders about exchange hedge has occurred from "passive exchange hedge" to "active exchange hedge". The exchange hedge of the Korea shipbuilders through the estimation of the VAR was able to grasp that affect the profitability of mutual shipbuilders. Macroeconomic variables and stock prices could also check to see that affected the net income of the shipbuilding industry.