As Korea's household debt has increased rapidly since the mid-2000s, concerns that its economy's hard-wired leveraging may negatively impact economic activity have grown. Calls are being made for policy actions to return the economy to its long-run trend. Housing preferences and monetary shocks...

The effects of mandatory loan-to-value (LTV) and debt-service-to-income (DSTI) ratios on real estate markets in the Korean economy are investigated using a sign identified Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model with Bayesian inference. Sign restrictions are drawn from a small open economy...

Using a longitudinal data set from South Korea, we estimate the impact of housing wealth on labor supply and the retirement behavior of elderly workers. Estimation results from our model suggest that house wealth variations significantly influence the labor supply of older workers. The housing...