• International Area Studies Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.31-58
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• 2011

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of real and monetary disturbances and economic interactions between two large countries, and to examine how wage indexation affects the transmission of real and monetary disturbances and affects the fiscal and monetary policies of a large country. A two large country model is built, and is theoretically analyzed. We conducted an empirical investigation to apply theoretical findings to the Japanese and US economic interactions in response to real and monetary disturbances originating in one or the other country. Empirical evidence on Japan-USA economic interactions shows that Japan is much more affected by the US economic policy than the USA is affected by the Japanese economic policy. The economic impacts of real and monetary disturbances on the Japanese and US economies are smaller when the Japanese and US wage indexing parameters are lower.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.219-240
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• 2011

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of stock price and real estate price on the money demand. We investigated the demand for money for 25 money units of 10 countries. To estimate the money demand functions, Johansen's cointegration and ARDL-bounds test were employed. Additionally, Stock and Watson's DOLS method was applied to estimate long-run cointegration vectors. According to the results of cointegration test, stock price and real estate price are crucial in the long-run equilibrium relationship. There were no cointegration relationships among money demand, real income, interest rate, and exchange rate in 12 money unit models. However, by including stock price and real estate price on the tested models, we could find strong cointegration relationships, using ARDL-bounds test. The results of DOLS confirm that stock price and real estate price are effective factors influencing on money demands. Especially, the coefficient of real estate price is statistically significant in the 19 out of 20 money unit models. However, the direction and magnitude of coefficients of asset prices are different across countries and money units.

• Proceedings of the KHMA Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.257-275
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• 2012

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.23-35
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• 2020

Mobile Money is a key factor of financial inclusion that can revolutionize the financial service delivery and hence enhance access to finance in emerging economies, especially the East African countries. This study therefore aims to study the determinants of individual's behavioral intention and usage of Mobile Money services in Ethiopia by usiing the UTAUT2 model. The research model was tested by sampling 200 respondents from different areas of Ethiopia. The analysis results found that Government Support, Facilitating Conditions, Performance Expectancy, Trust and Effort Expectancy are the key factors that affect the usage of Mobile Money service, while Lower Transaction Cost factors and Social Influence were not statistically significant. The findings provide useful information that only government's active efforts and support to promote mobile money services, through appropriate policies and regulations rather than lower transaction cost, can facilitate the adoption and dissemination of such services in Ethiopia.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.47-48
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• 2014

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.40-50
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• 2002

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.171-194
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• 2008

This paper analysis the long-run demand for monetary indicator M2 and Liquidity indicator L in Korea in the period from 1980:1 to 2006:3 by cointegration and error correction models. The empirical evidence that M2, L in Korea is meaningfully cointegrated with income, interest rate, exchange rate, inflation uncertainty, real effective exchange rate, exchange rate uncertainty and LIBOR, thus showing the existence of long-run demand function under open-economy framework.

• The Southeast Asian review
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.125-153
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 아시아 경제위기(1997-2000)와 글로벌 경제위기(2007-2010)의 양대 경제위기 이후 진행된 동남아시아 지역의 달러화 현상에 대해 후발국이면서 체제전환국 성격이 강한 캄보디아, 라오스, 베트남을 중심으로 분석하였다. 이를 위해 로하스-수아레즈(Rojas-Suarez 1992) 모형을 활용하여 양대 경제위기의 위 3개국의 달러화 현상에 대한 영향을 비교 분석하였다. 동 모델에 의하면 경제위기는 자국화폐에 대한 신뢰를 떨어뜨려 자국 화폐가치에 대한 예상평가절하율(예상환율상승률)이 크면 클수록 자국화폐 대비 달러화에 대한 수요는 증가될 것으로 예상된다. 분석 결과 아시아 경제위기의 경우 모델의 예상대로 자국 화폐의 예상평가절하 시 달러화의 수요를 나타내는 탄력성 계수가 통계적으로 유의하였다. 국가별로는 캄보디아, 라오스, 베트남의 순서로 탄력성이 크게 나타났으며 이는 각 국의 달러화 수준과 비례하는 결과이다. 이에 비해 글로벌 경제위기의 경우에는 캄보디아를 제외하면 탄력성 계수가 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 또한 캄보디아의 경우에도 탄력성 계수가 아시아 경제위기의 경우에 비해 감소된 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 달러화 현상에 있어서 아시아 경제위기에 비해 글로벌 경제위기의 영향이 상대적으로 작다는 것을 의미한다. 이는 동남아시아에 대한 글로벌 경제위기의 부정적 영향이 상대적으로 작았다는 기존의 연구들의 주장과 일치한다.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.105-125
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• 2016

The expansionary monetary policy was practiced after 2001 in Japan to treat the deflation spiral, and reduced only the nominal interest rates and domestic household demand. One of the most serious factors for this failure was the change of private sector's expectancy. This paper has studied the effect of Japanese monetary policy in 21c., with empirical research based on a renewed macroeconomic model and the VAR. The empirical analysis shows that the effect of monetary policy on the national income during 2001.01-2015.03 is weaker than that of 1985.01-1994.04. Money volume has a diminutive effect on the growth of GDP within a short term after 2001. The change in the expectations of the private sectors might have been the cause of ineffectiveness of the expansive monetary policy. Economic agents learned from the past Japanese financial crisis that an expansive monetary policy increased the inflation rate and caused the 'bubbles to burst' afterwards. The VAR analysis says that the effectiveness of monetary policy on the economic depression declined over the past 20 years and the expansion of money volume has no influence on exchange rate and net export. This means that the expansive monetary policy lost its effect on net export and national income steadily. Monetary policy makers have to recognize this fact, and to consider another anti-cycle political instrument, i.e. the fiscal policy with government debt.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.67-82
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• 2012

The first local exchange trading system(LETS), established in Comox Valley in Canada, aimed at facilitating the regional economy. However, in Korea, LETS was adopted to encourage mutual aid and promote community spirit among residents. This study examines the feasibility of LETS as a revitalization initiative for Pumasi and suggests a number of policies that can be implemented to support the project. The findings are as follows: First, the LETS credit system was found to complement social capital initiatives among Pumasi participants in the early stages of the Pumasi project. Second, combining LETS and Pumasi initiatives was found to consolidate community spirit and encourage a cooperative way of life among participants due to the fact that LETS enlarges the scope of local residents' participation and diversifies the services being exchanged. A number of policy suggestions are made for combining LETS with Pumasi. First, the project must define a vision of its long-term purpose and outcomes. Second, local residents should be employed as assistants to facilitate the project. Third, Pumasi participants should ensure that childcare exchange services are of the highest quality by providing an educational program on parenting. Fourth, the project manager's employment conditions and working environments must be guaranteed.