Emerging Asian economies typically have high shares of food in their consumption baskets, relatively low monetary policy credibility, and aggressive fiscal interventions in response to rises in international food and energy prices. Under these circumstances, we argue that targeting headline...

Theories of capital market imperfections have strong cross-sectional implications not only for corporate investment, but also for asset prices. Motivated by these theories, we develop a hypothesis about a differential effect of debt capacity on stock returns across financially constrained and...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 우리나라에서 경기대응완충자본(countercyclical capital buffer) 제도를 도입하는 과정에서 제기될 수 있는 이슈들을 검토함으로써 제도 도입의 바람직한 방향을 모색하는데 목적이있다. 특히...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 공적자금 상환관련 금융부문 재원인 특별기여금을 변화된 경제환경에 따라 새롭게 추정하는 것을 주요한 목표로 하였다. 본 연구에서는 OECD 국가의 자금순환표 상의 예금자료와 관련 경제변수들을...

This paper investigates if the parameters of the cointegration among consumption, asset wealth, and labor income are stable over the post-war sample period. Although Lettau and Ludvigson (2001a) find that the estimated consumption-wealth ratio (CAY) is a strong predictor of aggregate stock...

Building on a model of corporate investment under collateral constraints, we develop and test a hypothesis on the differential effect of debt capacity on stock returns across financially constrained and unconstrained firms. Consistent with the hypothesis, we find that debt capacity is a...

The economy of the Republic of Korea was hit harder than anticipated by the global financial crisis. In the first phase, large capital outflows led to a severe liquidity strain in the foreign exchange market resulting in a rapid depreciation of the exchange rate. Then, in the second phase, the...