Is there a size effect in the FX market? That is, do the currencies of small countries generate higher excess returns than the currencies of large countries? Using the market capitalization of a country as the measure of size, we document a strong size effect in the FX market. Size effect...

When a developed-market investor buys emerging-market stocks, this investor may be justified not to hedge currency risk. Our analysis indicates that completely unhedged portfolios often perform better than fully hedged portfolios and are not significantly inferior to optimally hedged portfolios....

Value premium varies substantially across countries. We explore whether the inter-country cross-sectional variation in value premium can be predicted by those variables known to predict the intra-country time-variation in value premium. After examining data from 23 developed markets and 13...

Maximum drawdown refers to the largest cumulative loss of a portfolio within a given time interval. While it has been used by investment professionals as an important measure of portfolio risk for many years, its nature and its implications for asset pricing have not been well understood. The...

We present a Gordon-growth-model-based formula for wealth-income ratios. Relative to the conventional formula popularized by Piketty and Zucman, the Gordon formula shows how the price and volume of wealth interact with each other. We highlight and confirm two implications of the Gordon formula...

This article critically examines two conventional ideas about cross-ownership: (1) it is almost impossible to takeover a cross-owned group of firms; (2) the controlling shareholder of a cross-owned group of firms extracts certain benefit from his/her control right. Through a simple analysis, we...

This paper aims to determine factors causing the stagnation of Korean firms' fixed investment after the global financial crisis, using panel data for the period of 1999-2016. Fixed investment remained sensitive to cash flow and Tobin's q although their effects decreased after the global...

We present a cost-benefit analysis of coastal protection via seawalls in South Korea against climate-change-induced sea level rise. Ours is the first bottom-up analysis for South Korea, deriving the optimal solution from extensive geographical and financial databases with detailed...