• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.151-160
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to estimate the risk premium hedge ratio in foreign exchange risk of the foreign exchange rate insurance. The applicants of exchange rate insurance and Korea Export Insurance Corporation will be facing the risk in change of currency and guaranteed currency’s swap point upon contract being made. Also upon making decision of hedging exchange rate insurance, the company will need to be aware of the risk causing due to change in swap point.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.3-38
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• 2015

Fama's (1984) volatility relations show that the risk premium in foreign exchange markets is more volatile than, and is negatively correlated with the expected rate of depreciation. This paper studies these relations from the perspective of goods markets frictions. Using a sticky-price general equilibrium model, we show that near-random walk behaviors of both exchange rates and consumption, in response to monetary shocks, can be derived endogenously. Based on this approach, the paper provides quantitative results on Fama's volatility relations.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.467-505
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• 2018

We propose a simple identification scheme for the causes of the violations of uncovered interest parity. Our method uses the serial dependence patterns of excess returns as a criterion for judging performance of economic models. We show that a mean reverting component in excess returns, representing a violation of uncovered interest parity, mainly contributes to generating different serial dependence patterns of excess returns: rational expectations risk premium models tend to generate negative serial dependence of excess returns, while expectational errors models tend to generate positive serial dependence.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.1043-1051
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• 2009

This study intends to discuss the influence on behaviors of won/dollar exchange rate after a FTA between Korea and US come into effect. The change of behaviors of won/dollar exchange rate has been looked into concerning other countries who have signed a FTA pact with the US, and these examples were compared with that of Korea so as to find similarities and differences. As a result of analyses, behaviors of exchange rate between FTA-pact countries were showed differently. Volatility and risk premium somewhat decreased after the FTA took effect except for Chile. As for Chile, showing intense volatility, foreign exchange risk premium rather increased. It can be concluded that the relationship between volatility and risk premium of individual exchange rate is established and FTA can influence change of these behaviors of exchange rate depending on the situation of individual country. This study will contribute to offer informations to Korea trading companies related to IT that will have to prepare for the uncertainties of change of exchange rate due to FTA between Korea and US.

• Economic Analysis
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-33
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• 2019

This paper examines the economic factors that are related to the dynamics of the variance risk premium, and specially, which economic factors are related to the forecasting power of the variance premium regarding future index returns. Eleven general economic variables, eight interest rate variables, and eleven sentiment-associated variables are used to figure out the relevant economic variables that affect the variance risk premium. According to our empirical results, the won-dollar exchange rates, foreign reserves, the historical/implied volatility, and interest rate variables all have significant coefficients. The highest adjusted R-squared is more than 65 percent, indicating their significant explanatory power of the variance risk premium. Next, to verify the economic variables associated with the predictability of the variance risk premium, we conduct forecasting regressions to predict future stock returns and volatilities for one to six months. Our empirical analysis shows that only the won-dollar exchange rate, among the many variables associated with the dynamics of the variance risk premium, has a significant forecasting ability regarding future index returns. These results are consistent with results found in previous studies, including Londono (2012) and Bollerslev et al. (2014), which show that the variance risk premium is related to global risk factors.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.63-84
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• 2010

We investigate whether FX hedging materially increases firm value by testing the valuation effect of Foreign Exchange Risk Insurance in Korea, using our sample of 84 listed firms with 617 observations between 2000 and 2008, Employing Tobin's Q as a proxy of firm value and foreign exchange risk insurance as a proxy of hedging instrument, we find a positive relation between firm value and the use of foreign exchange risk insurance. The hedging premium is statistically significant and is on average 7.4% of sample firm value. We also find our empirical results consistent with the preceding evidence that firm uses the hedging instrument in order to alleviate economic frictions and then hedging causes an increase in firm value.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.591-599
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• 2021

The increased risk in financial firms, due to Global Financial Crises and high international trade activities, has encouraged banks to use derivatives for both managing their financial risk and earning non-operating income simultaneously. The present study brings new evidence in the existing literature by determining the drivers behind financial derivative usage in Pakistani banks for 2011 till 2016. Moreover, the paper examines how risk plays a moderating role in determining the relationship between derivative usage and bank value. While assessing the determinants, a two-stage test has conducted, first, the logit regression was used to test the drivers behind the derivative usage in banks. Second, Tobit regression was run to analyze the factors leading to determine the extent of derivative usage. The findings demonstrate that Pakistani banks are using derivatives for both risk management and speculative motive as they are customers and users of derivatives at the same time. Empirical results, regarding moderating role of risk on the value implications of derivative usage, provide mixed findings as derivative usage gives value premium in case of non-systematic risk and foreign exchange risk. Whereas value discounts have been observed for cases where systematic risk is high and managers try to earn non-operating income from speculative activities.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.107-131
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 국내 자본시장의 개방이 광범위하게 진전된 1997년 외환위기 이후 기간을 대상표본으로 하여 한국주식시장에서 달러환위험에 대한 노출과 그 가격화 여부를 실증분석한다. 본 연구에서는 투자자들이 국내 주식시장 및 채권시장의 동향에 추가하여 미국신장의 움직임을 중요한 조건부 정보에 포함시켜 투자의사결정을 한다고 전제하고, 이에 상응하는 조건부 다중 베타위험 가격결정모형을 검정하였다. GMM추정의 초과식별조건을 이용하여 국내시장위험과 달러환위험 두 위험 요인을 포함한 가격결정모형의 모형설정오류를 검정한 결과 가격결정모형이 실제 주식수익률 자료와 배치되지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 조건부 달러환을 베타위험과 조건부 달러환위험 프리미엄은 모형에서 사전적으로 설정한 정보대용변수인 상수항과 한 시점 앞의 다우존스 주가지수 수익률, 국내시장 주가수익률 및 회사채 유통수익률에 의하여 설명이 이루어질 수 있고, 둘 다 시간가변적임이 결정되었다. 주식가격결정에 참여하고 있는 두 요인, 국내시장위험요인과 달러환위험요인의 상대적 중요성을 개략적으로 검정한 결과, 모든 포트폴리오에 걸쳐 국내시장위험요인이 더 큰 비중을 차지하고 있지만, 달러환위험요인도 무시할 수 없는 중요성을 가진 것으로 나타났다.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.229-256
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• 2000

주식시장에서 환율위험프리미엄의 존재유무는 기업의 투자 및 자본조달, 외환헤징재무활동, 개인의 투자전략 등에 중요한 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 연구에서는 차익거래모형을 이용하여 우리나라 주식시장에서 환율위험노출을 측정하고, 그 환율위험이 시장에서 보상되는 위험인가를 검정한다. 전체 표본기간은 1980년부터 1998년까지이며, 외환자유화와 자본시장 개방이 본격적으로 이루어진 1992년 이전과 이후를 하위기간으로 구분하여 분석하였다. 표본하위기간의 설정, 다각적인 환율위험요인 측정, 다양한 모형설정과 복수의 통계추정방법의 적용 등을 통하여 환율위험 프리미엄의 유무에 관련된 신뢰성있는 결론을 도출하고자 하였다. 1980년대 표본전기 하위기간에는 주식시장에서 통계적으로 유의한 환율위험노출을 확인하기 어려웠으나, 외환자유화와 자산시장개방이 본격화된 표본 후기 하위기간에는 뚜렷한 환율위험 의 존재를 확인할 수 있었다. 후기 하위기간을 대상으로 시장위험과 실효환율위험만을 포함한 차익거래모형을 적용하였을 때에 통계적으로 유의한 환율위험 프리미엄이 확인되었다. 그러나 달러환율과 엔화환율위험을 별개의 환율위험으로 설정한 경우 각 환율위험에 개별적으로나 결합적으로 통계적으로 유의한 위험프리미엄을 발견하지 못하였다. 더구나, 실효환율위험에 추가하여 산업생산위험, 인플레이션위험, 기업부도위험 등의 기본적 경제요인 위험을 함께 통제변수로서 포함하여 차익거래모형을 적용하였을 때에도 환율위험 프리미엄은 존재하지 않았다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.4359-4368
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• 2011

Among several macroeconomic missteps blamed for the recent global financial crisis including the social problems of income distribution and the lack of proper financial remedies, two of them have received particular attention: the global BOP(Balance of Payment) imbalance and the misguided monetary policy. Such BOP imbalance was blamed for massive foreign exchange investment flows from Asia into the U.S., triggering the financial and real estate bubble in America. The latter refers to the excessively loose monetary policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve, which pushed financial institutions and households into reckless investment behavior in search of higher returns. Given the abuse of certain innovative financial techniques and new investment instruments that have been created in recent decades, both collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps (CDS) enjoyed a symbiotic and toxic relationship prior to the financial crisis This paper is organized as follows: The first section analyzes the real causes of the recent financial crisis. The second details the role of CDOs and CDS. Then, to identify key determinants of the CDS spreads in an emerging capital market, the sample data of major Korean firms' CDS spreads are used to estimate the risk premium by utilizing the multiple regression analysis. The empirical test result indicates that Korean 3-year treasury bond rate(TYIELD), market to book value ratio(MV/BV), and assets size(INASSETS) are shown to demonstrate statistically significant influences on the changes of the CDS premium for sample firms.