This study investigates the impact of uncertainty shocks on macroeconomic activity in Korea. For this purpose, a Smooth Transition VAR model is employed to document the state-dependent dynamics of two distinct types of uncertainty shocks, namely, financial market based and news-based. When...

The paper examines the convergence question by contrasting the half-lives of deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) across traded and nontraded goods in an exchange rate model with sticky prices. In particular, empirical results show that in most cases the half-lives of PPP deviations for...

This paper investigates dynamic and causal relations between stock returns and mutual fund flows in Korea using a system method which utilizes information from the stock, bond, and money markets. For this purpose, we employ DSUR proposed by Mark, Ogaki, and Sul (2005), SURECM, and two causality...

When univariate methods are applied to real exchange rates, point estimates of autoregressive (AR) coefficients typically imply very slow rates of mean reversion. However, a recent study by Murray and Papell (2002) calculates confidence intervals for estimates of half-lives for long-horizon and...

Error correction models are widely used to estimate dynamic cointegrated systems. In most applications error correction models are reduced form models. As a result, non-structural speed of adjustment coefficients are estimated in these applications. A single equation instrumental variable method...

This study empirically investigates the spillover effect of the US Fed's monetary policy on the international capital flow in South Korea. Novel high frequency data from the EPFR Global and the event study strategy allow us to identify the Fed's policy shock with minimal assumptions. In contrast...

Using the novel high frequency capital flow dataset from the EPFR Global, this study empirically investigates the spillover effects of the US Fed's monetary policy on the international capital flow in South Korea. Around the Fed's monetary policy announcement (event) week, we find that equity...

Modeling a hedge fund's probability of failure by a dynamic logit regression, I document that a probability of fund failure has a significantly negative effect on the fund's future returns. A quintile portfolio with highest failure probability underperforms a quintile portfolio with lowest...

In this context, South Korea's ICT ODA program can also be used to create a foundation to aid its companies in entering the Vietnamese business market. In order for this to happen, it is imperative to improve operational system for ICT ODA's and to increase the amount of ODA. Finally, the demand...