• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.365-390
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• 2016

This paper quantitatively compares the intrinsic features of the daily USD-GBP exchange rates in two different periods, the 1920s and the 2010s, under the same freely floating exchange rate system. Even though the foreign exchange markets in the 1920s seem to be much less organized and developed than in the 2010s, this paper finds that both the long memory volatility property and the structural break appear to be the common intrigue features of the exchange rates in the two periods by using the FIGARCH model. In particular, the long memory volatility properties in the two periods are found to be upward biased and overstated because of the structural breaks in the exchange markets. Thus this paper applies the Adaptive-FIGARCH model to consider the long memory volatility property and the structural breaks jointly. The main finding is that the structural breaks in the exchange markets affect the long memory volatility property significantly in the two periods but the degree of the long memory volatility property in the 1920s is reduced more remarkably than in the 2010s after the structural breaks are accounted for; thus implying that the structural breaks in the foreign exchange markets in the 1920s seem to be more significant.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.61-87
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• 2020

Five diffusion models are estimated using three different foreign exchange rates to find an appropriate model for each. Daily spot exchange rates expressed as the prices of 1 euro, 1 British pound and 100 Japanese yen in US dollars, respectively denoted by USD/EUR, USD/GBP, and USD/100JPY, are used. The maximum likelihood estimation method is implemented after deriving an approximate log-transition density function (log-TDF) of the diffusion processes because the true log-TDF is unknown. Of the five models, the most general model is the best fit for the USD/GBP, and USD/100JPY exchange rates, but it is not the case for the case of USD/EUR. Although we could not find any evidence of the mean-reverting property for the USD/EUR exchange rate, the USD/GBP, and USD/100JPY exchange rates show the mean-reversion behavior. Interestingly, the volatility function of the USD/EUR exchange rate is increasing in the exchange rate while the volatility functions of the USD/GBP and USD/100Yen exchange rates have a U-shape. Our results reveal that more care has to be taken when determining a diffusion model for the exchange rate. The results also imply that we may have to use a more general diffusion model than those proposed in the literature when developing economic theories for the behavior of the exchange rate and pricing foreign currency options or derivatives.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.3-27
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• 2014

This paper examines the effects of financial crises on the long memory volatility dependency of daily exchange returns focusing on the Asian crisis in 97-98 and the Global crisis in 08-09. By using the daily KRW-USD and JPY-USD exchange rates which have different trading regions and volumes, this paper first applies both the parametric FIGARCH model and the semi-parametric Local Whittle method to estimate the long memory volatility dependency of the daily returns and the temporally aggregated returns of the two exchange rates. Then it compares the effects of the two financial crises on the long memory volatility dependency of the daily returns. The estimation results reflect that the long memory volatility dependency of the KRW-USD is generally greater than that of the JPY-USD returns and the long memory dependency of the two returns appears to be invariant to temporal aggregation. And, the two financial crises appear to affect the volatility dynamics of all the returns by inducing greater long memory dependency in the volatility process of the exchange returns, but the degree of the effects of the two crises seems to be different on the exchange rates.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.141-154
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• 2002

Foreign investors'shares and their influences on the Korean stock market have never been larger and greater before since the market was completely open to foreign investors in 1992 Quantitatively and qualitatively as well, as a result, changes in the patterns of foreign investments have caused enormous effects on the interactions of major macroeconomic indices of the Korean economy. This paper is intended to investigate the causal relations of the four variables, foreigners'buy-sell ratios, stock returns, ￦/＄ exchange rates and $\yen$/＄ exchange rates, over the two time periods of the pre-IMF (1996.1.1-1997.8.15) and the post-IMF (1997.8.16-2000.6.15) based on the daily data of the variables. Granger Causality Test, Forecast Error Variance Decomposition(FEVD) using VAR model and Impulse Response Function were implemented for the empirical analysis.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.61-75
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• 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to examine the efficiency of the foreign exchange markets in Korea, Japan and China. Design/methodology/approach - This study collected 1327 observations each of the daily closing exchange rates of the three currencies against the US dollar for the sample period from January 1, 2015 to January 31, 2020, based on the tests for autocorrelation, unit root tests and GARCH-M(1,1) model estimation. Findings - We have found that the autocorrelation test indicates the lack of autocorrelation and unit root test confirms the existence of unit roots in all times series of the three currencies, respectively. The GARCH-M(1,1) test results, however, suggest that the exchange rates do not follow a random walk process. In conclusion, the recent spot foreign exchange markets in Korea, Japan and China are believed to be informationally inefficient. Research implications or Originality - These findings have practical implications for both individual and institutional investors to be able to obtain excess returns on their investments in the foreign exchange markets in three countries by using appropriate risk management, portfolio strategy, technical analysis, etc. This study provides the first empirical examination on the foreign exchange market efficiency in the three biggest economies in Asia including China, which has been excluded from research due to its exchange rate regime.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.153-175
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• 2010

This study conducts an analysis to verify an existence of co-movement among the exchange rates of Yuan-Dollar, Yen-Dollar and Won-Dollar by using time series data. An analysis period is divided into two periods. Therefore the first analysis period is from Dec. 17, 1997 to Jul. 21th. 20, 2005 and the second analysis period is from Jul. 25th, 2005 to Nov. 20th. 2009. This paper uses VAR model and daily data of exchange rates during the period. According to the result of an empirical analysis, yuan-dollar exchange rate has affected by th other variables ; yen-dollar exchange rate. It can be proved by result of an impulse response test and variance decomposition test in the second period. Therefore the won-dollar, yen-dollar, and Yen-dollar exchange rate has been influenced each other and the relationship will be maintained.

• 재무관리연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.305-329
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• 2003

본 연구는 1987년 1월 5일부터 2001년 12월 28일까지의 일별 및 월별 자료를 가지고 미국 달러화와 일본 엔화가 기업의 주식수익률에 미치는 영향 및 비대칭성을 분석하였다. 일별 자료에 대해서는 오차항의 이분산을 고려해 자기회귀와 GARCH 계열 모형을 사용하였으며, 월별 자료에 대해서는 자기회귀모형을 사용했다. 전체기간 및 하위기간에 대한 분석결과는 일별 자료가 월별 자료에 비해 환노출을 발견하는 데 보다 탁월하다는 것을 보여주고 있다. 또한 EGARCH(1, 1)와 GJR-GARCH(1, 1)로 일별 자료를 분석하는 것이 보다 높은 설명력을 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 노출된 기업의 대부분에서 음의 환노출이 발견되고 있다. 이는 우리나라 기업의 주식수익률은 환율인상에 대해서는 부정적 영향을, 환율인하에 대해서는 긍정적 영향을 받는 것으로 해석할 수 있다. 비대칭성에 대한 분석 결과는 우리나라 기업은 대부분 비대칭적 환노출에 직면하고 있으며, 실물옵션이론보다는 시장중시가격이론이 보다 설득력이 있다는 결론을 제시해주고 있다. 또한 월별 자료가 일별 자료에 비해 비대칭 분석을 정확히 할 수 있는 것도 발견되었다.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.275-284
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• 2003

The soil -air exchange processes of CH$_4$ were investigated in Hari district of Kang Hwa Island, Korea during the late April 2002. In the course of our field experiments, we measured the concentration, concentration gradients (between two different heights of 1 and 5 m), and the fluxes of CH$_4$ using the surface layer gradient microm-eteorological methods. If the relationships between CH$_4$ fluxes and the relevant environmental parameters are examined, CH$_4$ fluxes were found to be affected most significantly by parameters like wind speed. The results of our study indicate that the study area behaved as a net source of CH$_4$ to the atmosphere with a net daily emission rate of 3.6 mg m￣$^2$ The findings of relatively low exchange rate observed at our study site suggest that the rice paddy area investigated prior to planting period can behave as a moderate source of methane.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.171-179
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• 2021

In the international markets, financial variables can be volatile and may affect each other, especially in the crisis times. COVID-19, which began in China in 2019 and spread to many countries of the world, created a crisis not only in the global health system but also in the international financial markets and economy. The purpose of this study is to analyze the contagious effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the volatility of selected financial variables such as Bitcoin, gold, oil price, and exchange rates and the connections between the volatilities of these variables during the pandemic. For this aim, we use the ARMA-EGARCH model to measure the impact of volatility and shocks. In other words, it is aimed to measure whether the impact of the shock on the financial variables of the contagiousness of the epidemic is also transmitted to the markets. The data was collected from secondary and daily data from September 2th 2019 to December 20th, 2020. It can be said that the findings obtained have statistically significant effects on the conditional variability of the variables. Therefore, there are findings that the shocks in the market are contaminated with each other.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.3-22
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 1995년부터 1월에서 2015년 10월까지의 5,323개 일별자료로 다변량 GARCH BEKK모형을 이용하여 금리, 환율, 주가 상호간 충격전이효과를 분석하였다. 전체표본기간에서의 변동성 충격전이를 분석한 결과로는 우선 대칭모형상으로 금리변동의 충격은 주가에만 충격을 주었고 환율변동의 충격은 다른 두 변수들에 별다른 영향을 미치지 못하였는데 주가변동은 금리와 환율 모두에 유의미한 충격을 주는 것이 확인되었다. 비대칭모형상으로는 금리의 상승충격은 환율에만, 환율의 상승충격은 금리에만 상호간 유의미한 영향을 미쳤고 주가의 하락충격은 환율에만 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 외환위기국면 소표본기간에서는 비대칭모형에서 금리의 상승충격이 환율과 주가에 영향을 미쳤고 주가의 하락충격은 환율에만 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 글로벌 금융위기국면 소표본기간의 비대칭모형에서는 주가의 하락충격만이 금리에 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 이를 종합하면 한국의 주식시장 변동충격은 나머지 두 변수에 유의미하게 영향을 미쳤고 금리의 충격은 시기별로 주가와 환율에 영향을 미쳤으나 환율의 충격은 전체적으로 그리 크지 않게 나타남으로써 주식시장의 안정화 유도책이 시장변수의 충격을 완화시키기 위한 선결과제임이 입증되었다.