This paper argues that the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) is not immune to global crises, but that a more than proportional response of gross domestic product to global crises does not seem to be the general case either. Along this line of reasoning, Korea's extreme response to the current...

This paper discusses the relationship between interest rate and inflation rate on one part and the house price relative to chonsei price (up-front lump-sum deposit from the tenant to the owner for the use of the property with no additional requirement for periodic rent payments) on the other....

This paper discusses Korea's post-crisis monetary policy, focusing on two questions: (i) whether the high interest rate policy right after the outbreak of crisis was effective on exchange rate stabilization and (ii) whether the post-crisis interest rate policy can be justified in light of the...

This paper studies the effects of the United States' (US) quantitative easing on Asia by examining capital flows and financial markets. After the global financial crisis, Asian economies with more open and developed capital markets experienced greater swings in capital inflows. In particular,...

This paper argues that the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) is not immune to global crises, but that a more than proportional response of gross domestic product to global crises does not seem to be the general case either. Along this line of reasoning, Korea's extreme response to the current...

Capital market liberalization has become an irreversible trend in Korea since 1992. With the current level of high interest rate in Korea, however, drastic full-scale liberalization would certainly attract a large amount of capital inflows and appreciate the Korean won. This would affect the...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 금융위기가 고용 및 실업에 미친 영향을 분석하였다. 특히 이번 금융위기 기간 동안의 고용조정이 외환위기 당시나 여타 선진국의 경험과 비교하여 매우 완만하게 나타난 원인이 무엇이었는지에...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 장기적으로 자본생산성이 하락하면서 성장률과 실질이자율 이 하락하는 경제에서 인플레이션율이 부동산가격, 특히 주택의 매매가격 과 전세가격의 격차에 어떠한 영향을 미칠 것인지에 대해...

We compare the out-of-sample forecasting performance of univariate homoskedastic, GARCH, autoregressive and nonparametric models for conditional variances, using five bilateral weekly exchange rates for the dollar, 1973-1989. For a one week horizon, GARCH models tend to make slightly more...