• 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.

• Economic Analysis
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.84-132
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• 2020

A central bank infers market expectations of future yields based on yield curves. The central bank needs to precisely understand the changes in market expectations of future yields in order to have a more effective monetary policy. This need explains why a range of models have attempted to produce yield curves and market expectations that are as accurate as possible. Alongside the development of bond markets, the interconnectedness between them and macroeconomic factors has deepened, and this has rendered understanding of what macroeconomic variables affect yield curves even more important. However, the existence of various theories about determinants of yields inevitably means that previous studies have applied different macroeconomics variables when estimating yield curves. This indicates model uncertainties and naturally poses a question: Which model better estimates yield curves? Put differently, which variables should be applied to better estimate yield curves? This study employs the Dynamic Nelson-Siegel Model and takes the Bayesian approach to variable selection in order to ensure precision in estimating yield curves and market expectations of future yields. Bayesian variable selection may be an effective estimation method because it is expected to alleviate problems arising from a priori selection of the key variables comprising a model, and because it is a comprehensive approach that efficiently reflects model uncertainties in estimations. A comparison of Bayesian variable selection with the models of previous studies finds that the question of which macroeconomic variables are applied to a model has considerable impact on market expectations of future yields. This shows that model uncertainties exert great influence on the resultant estimates, and that it is reasonable to reflect model uncertainties in the estimation. Those implications are underscored by the superior forecasting performance of Bayesian variable selection models over those models used in previous studies. Therefore, the use of a Bayesian variable selection model is advisable in estimating yield curves and market expectations of yield curves with greater exactitude in consideration of the impact of model uncertainties on the estimation.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.157-185
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• 1996

본 연구는 한국증권시장에서 변동성의 정보비대칭효과를 조건부 이분산모형을 이용하여 검증하고자 하였다. 검증방법으로는 Engle과 Ng (1993)의 연구에 기초하여 정보반응곡선(News impact curve)으로 분석하였다. 분석자료로 1980년 부터 1995년 까지의 한국종합주가지수, 일별 초과수익률자료를 사용하였다. 정보반응곡선에 이용한 모형은 GARCH 모형, EGARCH 모형, TGARCH 모형, AGARCH 모형등 4개의 조건부 이분산 모형이다. 무조건 분산을 이용한 정보 반응곡선의 함수형태로 보면, 분산의 정보반응에 있어서 GARCH 모형은 대칭적으로 반응하며 나머지 조건부 이분산 모형인 EGARCH 모형, TGARCH 모형, 그리고 AGARCH 모형은 비대칭적으로 반응하는 모형임을 알 수 있었다. 실증분석결과 정보반응곡선을 통하여 악재(bad news)정보에 따라 예측하지 못한 주식수익률의 하락이 호재(good news)에 따른 예측하지 못한 주식수익률의 상승보다 더 큰 변동성을 발견할 수 있었다. 그러나 비대칭성의 크기는 그다지 큰 것으로 보이지 않았다. 모형적합성 검정에서도 4개의 조건부 이분산 모형은 모두 적합한 것으로 보인다. 그중에서도 EGARCH 모형과 TGARCH 모형이 상대적으로 주가예측력이 뛰어나 보인다. 그러나 변동성의 정보 비대칭반응을 통계적으로 유의적인 것으로 확인한 모형은 TGARCH모형 뿐이었다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.159-168
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• 2008

Since the term structure of interest rates (TSIR) has longitudinal data, we should consider as input variables both time left to maturity and time simultaneously to get a more useful and more efficient function estimation. However, since the resulting data set becomes very large, we need to develop a fast and reliable estimation method for large data set. Furthermore, it tends to overestimate TSIR because data are correlated. To solve these problems we propose a mixture of weighted least squares support vector machines. We recognize that the estimate is well smoothed and well explains effects of the third stock market crash in USA through applying the proposed method to the US Treasury bonds data.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.65-101
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• 2014

This paper estimates and characterizes expected inflations using an affine term structure model based on the empirical stochastic process of the interest rates in Korea. The empirical results show that the expected inflation which marked above 4% before the global financial crisis has dampened and stabilized after the crisis. Moreover, we investigate the rationality of the various expected inflation measures in terms of the unbiasedness and efficiency and find that unbiasedness is not rejected across the all measures, while the efficiency cannot be empirically warranted. Besides, we run Granger causality tests and conclude that the expected inflations compiled from the Consensus, BOK-Expert have the cross-causality with the long-run actual inflation, while the expected inflation estimated from the term structure model has the cross-causality with the short-run actual inflation. These results connote that expected inflations collected from different sources and methods have their targets and horizons and the central bank needs to watch all of them with a balanced view instead of preferring one to the other.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.217-220
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 경상북도 북부지역의 5개의 소수력발전 후보지점을 설정하였으며, 5개 후보지점에 대하여 설치가능한 소수력 발전시설은 지형학적 측면을 비롯하여 다양한 타당성 검토를 통하여 댐식 소수력 발전시설이 타당한 것으로 분석되었다. 5개 후보지점에서 설정된 유량지속곡선을 이용하여 발전용량을 산정하고 수차를 선정하였다. 따라서 산정된 발전 용량을 편익비용 분석법과 내부수익률 분석법을 이용하여 경제성분석을 실시하였다. 본 연구에서는 3개의 소수력발전 후보지점(경상북도 봉화군 명호면, 경상북도 영주시 문수면 권선리, 경상북도 예천군 형호리)이 B/C 비율이 1이상으로 경제성이 있는 것으로 분석되었으나, 설비용량 500kW 이상인 최적 개발후보지는 경상북도 영양군 입암면 후보지점인 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.453-456
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• 2000

고정금리 상품의 투자에서 이자율 변동 위험을 피할 수 있는 방법으로 많이 쓰이는 것은 듀레이션을 이용한 면역 모델(Bond Portfolio Immunization Model)로, 이것은 이자율 변동에 대해 포트폴리오의 가격 민감도인 듀레이션을 이용하여 자산과 부채의 변화를 일치시키는 방법이다. 그러나 이 전략은 수익률 곡선이 평형하게 이동한다는 가정(Parallel Shift Term-Structure)을 단점으로 가지고 있어 현실에 적용될 경우 오차가 발생하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 선험적(empirical) 방법으로 평형하지 않은 움직임을 가진 기간구조의 함수(Term-Structure Function)를 정의하고 면역 모델을 부채의 현금흐름에 대해 개별적으로 적용하는 새로운 면역 전략 모델을 구성하고 실험한다

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.1-16
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• 2001

This study discusses some theoretical implications for efficient utilization of the global E-commerce in a world of uncertainty by beginning with measures of risk and return for the global E-commerce, and by moving to risk and return for a efficient transaction portfolio of many risky methods of transaction. Decision rules are developed to show how individuals choose optimal transaction portfolios that maximize their expected utility of wealth. First, the individuals will generally want to allocate positive amount to the global E-commerce, which requires that the expected marginal utility of wealth equals zero. Secondly, the optimal transaction portfolio will be determined by finding the point of tangency between the efficient trading line and the hightest indifference curve in the mean-variance plane. Thirdly, if the global E-commerce is positively correlated with wealth, it must have an expected return that is higher than the risk-free transaction methods in order to compensate for its risk. Fourthly, on the other hand, if the global E-commerce is negatively correlated with wealth, it will have an expected return that is less than the risk-free transaction methods. Finally, the valuation of global E-commerce depends on the degree of individual's risk aversion and the covariance between the expected return of total wealth and the return of global E-commerce.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.810-812
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• 2017

최근 기계학습에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 금융 분야에서는 인공지능을 이용하여 투자 포트폴리오를 제안하는 로보어드바이저(robo-advisor)를 출시하고 있다. 이는 고객에게 저렴한 수수료를 제공하며 높은 접근성, 인건비의 절감 등의 장점으로 이를 도입하여 다양한 상품을 개발하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 머신러닝 알고리즘인 SVM(support vector machine)과 kNN(k-nearest neighbor)을 활용하여 매월 12개월 이전의 KOSPI 지수 데이터를 학습시킨 후 예측하는 투자 시스템을 구현하였다. 실험결과 SVM이 2.90413배의 성적으로 가장 우수했으며 수익률은 Precision(예측정확도)와 비례함을 보였다. 또한 수익곡선은 추세에 따라 유사한 형태를 보인 성과를 도출하였다.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.393-405
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• 2011

Three different models have been consecutively employed with the U.S. yield curve and the Korean composite stock price index, firstly to see the coupling between the economies of the U.S. and Korea, secondly to find out the time consumed completing the coupling, and lastly to figure out the impact of the recent U.S. financial crisis on this coupling. This study has, first of all, produced an empirical research outcome which proved the existence of coupling between two countries' economies. The direction of this coupling was consistent with the general expectation that when the yield spread between the U.S. 10-year Treasury Note and the U.S. 3-month Treasury Bill increased which often occurred with better prospects of U.S. economy, the asset price of emerging economies including Korea also rose reflecting the accompanying change in investment atmosphere in favor of risk. It has also found out that the degree of the coupling was maximized with a lag of one week. And finally the recent US financial crisis has been revealed to reduce the degree of the coupling by as much as half in a regression model with a dummy variable.