• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2020

Purpose - Since China has been South Korea's biggest export destination, uncertainty shocks originating from it would influence South Korea's exports. This paper evaluates the effects of China's economic policy uncertainty on Korea's exports to explore the transmission channels. Design/methodology - Incorporating endogeneities and nonlinearities, this study employs a quarterly time-varying parameters vector autoregressive model to investigate the relationships between China's economic policy uncertainty and Korea's exports, where the overparameterization due to time-varying specifications is overcome by a novel stochastic model specification search framework. According to previous theoretical studies, this paper assesses two channels, demand shock channel and exchange rate channel, through which foreign uncertainty affects Korea's exports. This paper identifies the primary drivers of Korea's aggregate exports and analyzes the rationales for the time-variant impacts of China's economic policy uncertainty on Korea's exports to China. Findings - Our empirical results reveal that Korea's aggregate exports are less responsive to China's economic policy uncertainty shocks and significantly move together with global demand. In contrast, its bilateral exports to China are highly responsive in a negative and time-variant way. Moreover, Chinese investment is an important channel through which China's economic policy uncertainty affects Korea's exports to China after 2010. Further, the time-variant effects of China's economic policy uncertainty on Korea's exports to China are related to changes in China's foreign trade policies, global economic conditions, and China's degree of economic freedom. Originality/value - Few previous studies touch the effects of external uncertainty shocks on South Korea's exports. This paper attempts to fill this gap and explicitly investigate the impacts of China's economic policy uncertainty on Korea's exports from a time-varying perspective. As Korea is an export-oriented economy, this study provides insights for the Korean government to understand the transmissions of external uncertainty better.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.69-89
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• 2018

We study whether a default option attached to non-recourse mortgages improves borrowers' surplus from mortgage financing. By defaulting on mortgage debt, borrowers can save their non-collateralized income from being foreclosed. In exchange, borrowers must forgo non-monetary surplus from retaining any collateral. Banks may charge a high mortgage rate due to increased default rates. We find that the interest rate of non-recourse mortgage decreases with the borrower's surplus from home ownership. Moreover, non-recourse mortgages benefit only borrowers who deem housing property as an investment asset. Hence, the transition to a non-recourse mortgage is detrimental to welfare if the borrower enjoys a large surplus from home ownership. Although the borrower privately knows how much surplus she enjoys from home ownership, a menu of non-recourse mortgage contracts may exist, yielding a separating equilibrium without information rent.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.111-142
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• 2014

We examine whether country fundamentals help explain the cross-section of currency excess returns. For this purpose, we consider fundamental variables such as default risk, foreign exchange rate regime, capital control as well as interest rate in the multi-factor model framework. Our empirical results show that fundamental factors explain a large part of the cross-section of currency excess returns. The zero-intercept restriction of the factor model is not rejected for most currencies. They also reveal that our factor model with country fundamentals performs better than a factor model with usual investment-style factors. Our main empirical results are based on 2001-2010 balanced panel data of 19 major currencies. This paper may fill the gap between country fundamentals and practitioners' strategies on currency investment.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.203-223
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• 2019

This paper examines the interactions between financial conditions and business cycles in Mongolia, a small open economy, heavily depending on commodity exports. We construct two financial conditions indexes based on the reduced form IS model and the vector autoregression (VAR) model as surveillance tools to quantify the degree of the financial conditions. We find that real short-term interest rate and real effective exchange rate gap get a higher weight in the FCIs. Both business and financial cycles are often more pronounced in Mongolia, and financial condition is dependent of the financial and monetary policies in place. The analysis of the predictive power of the FCIs for business cycles shows that they have predictive information for the near-term economic activities. FCIs are also helpful in signaling inflation turning points.

• 경영과학
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.119-133
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• 2001

It is important to find the equilibrium level of real interest rate for it affects real and financial sector of economy. However, it is difficult to find the equilibrium level because like the most macroeconomic model the real interest model has parameter instability problem caused by structural change and it is supported by various theories and definitions. Hence, in order to cover these problems structural change detection model of real interest rate is developed to combine the real interest rate equilibrium model and the procedure to detect structural change points. 3 equations are established to find various effects of other interest-related macroeconomic variables and from each equation, structural changes are found. Those structural change points are consistent with common expectation. Oil Crisis (December, 1987), the starting point of Economic Stabilization Policy (January, 1982), the starting point of capital liberalization (January, 1988), the starting and finishing points of Interest deregulation (January, 1992 and December, 1994), Foreign Exchange Crisis (December, 1977) are detected as important points. From the equation of fisher and real effects, real interest rate level is estimated as 4.09% (October, 1988) and dependent on the underlying model, it is estimated as 0%∼13.56% (October, 1988), so it varies so much. It is expected that this result is connected to the large scale simultaneous equations to detect the parameter instability in real time, so induces the flexible economic policies.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.105-125
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• 2016

일본은 21세기에 들어와서 경기침체와 디플레이션을 극복하기 위하여 확산적 화폐금융정책을 실시하였으며, 최근 아베정부는 무제한적으로 화폐공급을 증가시키고 있다. 그러나 이와 같은 정책의 효과는 아직 뚜렷이 나타나지 않고 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 2001년 이후 일본금융정책의 효과를 검증하는데 있다. 이를 위하여, 일본에서는 1990년 이후 버블형성과 붕괴이후 민간경제주체의 기대형성 과정이 변하고 있다는 사실에 기인하여, 기대가설을 내포하고 있는 거시모형을 설정하였다. 본 연구에서 사용된 거시모형은 통화량이 환율에 미치는 영향을 포함하였으며, 이를 IVM와 VAR를 이용하여 통계적으로 분석하였다. 통계분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 화폐금융정책의 효과는 2001.01-2015.03 기간에서 1985.01-1994.04.기간보다 낮아졌으며 효과가 미치는 기간도 짧아지고 있다. 이는 버블형성과 붕괴를 경험한 일본 민간경제주체가 더 이상 화폐금융정책의 효과를 믿지 않고 있기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 통화량의 증가에도 불구하고 총수요는 영향을 받지 않고 있으며, 기대하지 못한 환율의 변화는 순수출을 증가시키고 있지만 통화 증가가 환율의 기대오차에 영향을 주지 못하고 있는 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구의 결과가 금융정책에서 의미하는 바는 중요하다고 할 수 있다. 일본의 버블형성과 붕괴, 그 후의 금융정책의 실패 등은 민간경제주체의 정책에 대한 신뢰를 변화시켰고, 화폐금융정책의 효과는 점차 낮아지고 있으며 불확실성은 커지고 있다. 확산적 화폐금융정책은 효과가 미흡할 경우 그 정책에 내재해 있는 위험성은 높아지므로 정책실시에 보다 신중한 결정이 요구된다. 또한 정부부채를 이용하는 재정정책을 배합하는 방향도 고려할 필요가 있다. 문제는 일본 정부부채 비율이 250%에 달한 것인데, 그렇다고 해서 재정정책을 사용하지 못한다는 근거는 없으므로, 이에 대한 또 다른 연구가 요구되는 시점이다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.63-72
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• 2020

The study aims to investigate the impact level of earnings quality on firm value. The study has used data with 3,910 observations at listed firms on Vietnam Stock Exchange for the period from 2010 to 2018, and GLS regression analysis is employed in this research. Earnings quality is measured in the aspects of earnings management, earnings persistence, and timeliness of profitability. This study also considers a number of controlled variables that positively influence the firm's value such as firm size, fixed asset investment rate and dividend payout ratio. The results show that earnings quality is positively associated with firm value with having statistical significance. In contrast, some determinants negatively influence firm value such as financial leverage, ratio of market value to book value, and revenue growth. Determinants of firm size, the rate of investment in fixed assets, the rate of dividend payment positively affect the firm value. In contrast, determinants of financial leverage, revenue growth rate and market value to book value ratio are inversely related to firm value according to economic value, Tobin's Q or Price. Based on the findings, some recommendations are proposed for investors, management and policy makers as well in the context of emerging countries including Vietnam.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.1-44
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• 2011

본 연구는 교역조건 충격이 경기 변동의 주요 동인으로 작용하는 동시에 비교 역재 부문이 존재하는 소규모 개방경제를 대상으로, 이론모형을 바탕으로 한 모의실험의 방법론을 이용하여 다양한 통화정책이 갖는 사회후생상의 함의를 정량적으로 검토한다. 본 연구의 주요 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 교역조건 충격이 경기 변동을 야기하는 주요 동인으로 작용하는 경제의 경우에는, 비교역재 물가 인플레이션 타깃팅이 소비자 물가 인플레이션 타깃팅이나 고정환율제도와 비교하여 보다 높은 사회후생 수준을 제시할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 비교역재 물가 인플레이션 타깃팅의 사회후생 개선효과는 교역조건 충격의 변동성이 커질수록, 반면 지속성은 낮을수록 확대되는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 비교역재 물가 인플레이션 타깃팅의 사회후생 증진효과는 수입재 가격 변동보다는 국내 실질한계비용에 직접적으로 영향을 미치게 되는 수출재 가격 변동과 관련이 있는 것으로 드러났다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2021

UAE has rapidly developed into one of the leading global financial hubs, with significant transformations in its stock exchanges. In its attempt at economic diversification in the last two decades, the country has also taken a lead in the GCC region in introducing extensive reforms to attract FDI to the Emirates. However, oil price volatilities have posed a significant challenge to all oil-exporting countries. The main aim of this study is to explore the impact of economic diversification and oil price on the UAE stock market. The study applies Granger Causality and Vector Autoregressive Model on monthly Abu Dhabi stock exchange index, Dubai Fateh crude oil spot price, and FDI inflows during 2001-19. The short-term interbank rate has been included as a monetary policy variable. The results show a substantial difference between the two phases of reforms. Oil price and Abu Dhabi stock index show bidirectional relationship during 2001-09 but no causality was found during 2010-19. Furthermore, the second phase was characterized by unidirectional causation from FDI to ADX index. This study highlights FDI inflows as a key driver of stock market performance during the last decade and emphasizes the success of the intense reforms in the UAE initiated for the diversification of its economy.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2021

Purpose - The global trend of protectionism has expanded since the onset of US President Donald Trump's administration in 2017. This global phenomenon has led to a significant reduction in world trade volume and a negative impact on economic development in some countries where the external sector accounts for a large proportion of GDP. Although Korea is a country vulnerable to this deteriorating trade environment, few studies have examined the relationship between protectionism and its business cycles based on Korean data. Thus, this paper investigates the impact of protectionism on Korea's business cycle. Design/methodology - To identify future implications, we conduct a structural vector autoregression (VAR) analysis using monthly Korean data from 1994 to 2015. Macroeconomic variables in the model include the industrial production index, inflation rates, exports (or net exports), interest rates, and exchange rates. For the identification of the shock reflecting the expansion of protectionism, we use an antidumping investigation (ADI) data. Since ADIs are followed generally by the imposition of antidumping tariffs, they have no contemporaneous impact on tariffs and are also contemporaneously exogenous to other endogenous variables in the VAR model. We examine two kinds of ADI shocks i) shocks on Korean exports imposed by Korea's trading partners (ADI-imposed shocks) and ii) shocks on imports imposed by the Korean government (ADI-imposing shocks). Findings - We find that Korea's exports decline sharply due to ADI-imposed shocks; the lowest point at the third month after the initial shock; and do not recover until 24 months later. Simultaneously, the inflation rate decreases. Therefore, the ADI-imposed shock can be regarded as a negative shock on the demand curve where both production and price decrease. In contrast, the ADI-imposing shock generates a different response. The net exports decline, but the inflation rate increases. These can be seen as standard responses with respect to the negative shock on the supply curve. Originality/value - We shed light on the relationship between protectionism and Korea's economic fluctuations, which is rarely addressed in previous studies. We also consider the effects of both protective policy measures on imports to Korea imposed by the Korean government and on policy measures imposed by Korea's trading partner countries on its exports.