English Abstract: Most previous studies on business cycles in emerging markets have focused on elucidating the differences between advanced and emerging countries. However, the present study investigates the differences in two groups of emerging countries, namely, those in Asia and Latin...

This study investigates the transmission mechanism of Chinese monetary policy shocks to other East Asian countries using a VAR model and focusing on their effects on the trade channel. The main empirical results are as follows. First, in response to Chinese expansionary monetary policy shocks,...

Estimating heterogeneous panel VAR models, this paper empirically investigates how effective macroprudential policy is in curbing mortgage loans and house prices. The sign restriction approach is used to identify two fundamental policy shocks - monetary policy and macroprudential policy shocks....

This paper investigates the dynamic impact of social distancing policy on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection control, mobility of people, and consumption expenditures in the Republic of Korea. We employ structural and threshold vector autoregressive (VAR) models using big-data-driven...