This paper sets up a canonical new Keynesian small open economy model with nominal price rigidities to explore the impact of habit persistence and exchange rate pass-through on the welfare ranking of alternative monetary policy rules. It identifies three factors that can affect the welfare...

This paper examines the viability or appropriateness of two polar solutions, especially free-floating regime for developing countries. To do so, we investigate the Korean financial markets, which provide interesting case, utilizing multivariate GARCH and various VSR (Vector Auto-Regression)...

E-finance in Korea has evolved since the late 1980s, when developments in information and telecommunication technology started to be applied to the financial industry. Since the 1990s, e-finance has led a paradigm shift in the financial industry as financial transactions in computer-based tools...