This paper analyzes the mean-variance efficiency of the reserve portfolios of central banks in an effort to shed light on the recent debate regarding the need for portfolio diversification. Using likelihood ratio test statistics, we examine the efficiency of the reserve portfolios of 18...

Korean Abstract: 외환위기 직후 취해진 고금리정책에 대하여 평가가 엇갈리고 있다. 고금리정책이 본래 의도하였던 환율안정에 기여하였는지, 또는 과도하게 국내경기를 위축시키는 데 그쳤는지가 논쟁의 핵심이라고 할 수...

Korean Abstract: 본고는 주식과 채권이 불완전대체재이고 자본이동이 채권시장보다는 주로 주식시장을 통하여 이루어지는 신흥시장국을 대상으로 거시경제정책 및 해외충격의 효과를 분석하고 있다. 주식과 채권이...

The Asian currency crisis in 1997 and the launch of the euro in 1999 made the possibility and desirability of introducing a regional currency union in East Asia a point of debate. At present, the empirical findings and policy implications of previous studies are mixed. We are still in need of...

In the middle of the global financial crisis, global imbalances seem to have been resolved to some extent, but it remains to be seen whether these imbalances will emerge again along with economic recovery. In order to cope with this global issue, we need to clarify what caused global imbalances...

This paper analyzes the determinants of financial capital flows in Korea, which provides an intriguing case for examining the volatility of such flows as an almost fully opened capital market. Our empirical analysis finds both pull and push factors have significantly affected all three types of...

China has been promoting the internationalization of the RMB for two decades now, and as a result, its offshore foreign exchange market has been substantially revitalized, even though China’s capital market remains partially open. The movements of offshore exchange rates can provide crucial...

We examined the return comovement of popular value-oriented investment strategies inside and outside equity. There are two distinct groups among the strategies that we examined. The returns of strategies within a group move together, while the returns of strategies belonging to different groups...

We compare the beta model (a.k.a. covariance model) and the characteristics model in terms of their ability to reduce portfolio risk. When global-minimum-variance portfolios (GMVPs) are constructed out of the 500 largest US stocks for the 30-year period between 1981 and 2011, the...

The Black-Litterman model has gained popularity in applications in the area of quantitative equity portfolio management. Unfortunately, many recent applications of the Black-Litterman to novel aspects of quantitative portfolio management have neglected the rigor of the original Black-Litterman...