• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.81-101
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• 2021

This paper estimates the expectation-augmented Phillips curve, which explains inflation dynamics, in Korea. The phenomenon of low inflation in Korea has been going on for quite some time, in particular since 2012. During the Covid-19 crisis, due to low inflation expectations the operation of monetary policy was limited as the base rate approached the zero lower bound. The main objective of this paper is to estimate where and how tightly inflation expectations are anchored. It was found that long-term inflation expectations fell to around 1%, falling short of the inflation target, and that inflation expectations are strongly anchored to long-term expectations, which implies that the low inflation phenomenon is likely to extend into the future. The results also imply that even if inflation fluctuates due to temporary disturbances, it may converge to a level below the inflation target. The slight rebound of long-term expectations during the Covid-19 crisis suggests that the aggressive monetary policy may have contributed to improving economic agents' beliefs about the commitment of monetary authorities to inflation stability. This may also help long-term expectations gradually to approach the inflation target.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.413-429
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• 2023

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of consumers' inflation expectations using consumers' inflation perceptions and the sub-components of consumer price index (CPI) basket in South Korea based on a consumer survey conducted by the Bank of Korea (BOK). Design/methodology/approach - Using Carroll's (2003) epidemiological model, we analyzed data from January 2013 to January 2023, resulting in a data set of 121 observations for both inflation perceptions and inflation expectations. This study focuses only on aggregate inflation expectations and perceptions because of data availability from the BOK. Findings - Professionals' forecasts play a major role in forming consumers' inflation expectations, whereas the actual headline CPI and consumers' inflation perceptions do not. These results remain robust when including the sub-components of the CPI basket in the analysis. Research implications or Originality - It would be the most efficient way to suppress professionals' expected inflation in fighting against a substantial spike in consumers' inflation expectations. To guide consumers' inflation expectations based on BOK's inflation targeting, the bank needs to consider professionals' forecasts in devising monetary policies.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.45-68
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• 2018

We uncover a nexus between actual inflation, inflation perceptions and expectations in Korea through analyzing micro as well as aggregate data from the Consumer Survey. We document two novel findings. First, households' subjective perceptions of inflation exert more impact on expectation formation than actual inflation. Second, inflation perceptions are broadly in line with the trajectory of the inflation trend. This is attributable to the fact that changes in actual inflation have been generated mainly by the consumption items whose price changes are perceived more sensitively as those items are frequently bought or have a larger share in household expenditures. Conducting a cross-country comparison, we find that information rigidity in expectation formation process and the nexus between perceptions and expectations of inflation prove to be stronger in Korea. Additionally, we reconfirm the existing finding that the scope of information utilized for forming inflation expectations is fairly circumscribed.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제37권sup호
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• pp.33-63
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• 2015

본 연구는 우리나라 일반인의 인플레이션 기대 형성 행태를 정보경직성(information rigidity)과 상태의존성(state-dependence)을 중심으로 분석한다. 우리나라 일반인의 인플레이션 기대 형성 과정에 정보경직성이 존재하는지 여부를 살펴보기 위해 간단한 정보경직성 모형을 도출하여 추정하였으며, 간단한 마코프 국면전환모형을 이용하여 인플레이션 기대 형성 행태가 경제여건에 따라 달라지는 상태의존적 특징을 나타내는지도 분석하였다. 본 연구의 주요 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 우리나라 일반인의 대다수는 정보 갱신을 통해 인플레이션 기대를 새로 형성하기보다는 기존의 기대를 관성적으로 유지하는 것으로 추정되었다. 또한 정보 갱신 과정에서도 전문가 예측치 등과 같은 미래 지향적 정보보다 과거 인플레이션율과 같은 과거 지향적 정보에 대한 의존도가 높은 것으로 드러났다. 둘째, 우리나라 일반인의 인플레이션 기대 형성 행태는 인플레이션 수준에 따라 달라지는 상태의존적 특징을 보이는 것으로 드러났다. 즉, 인플레이션이 큰 폭으로 상승하는 시기에는 그렇지 않은 시기와 비교하여, 인플레이션 기대의 실제 인플레이션에 대한 민감도가 상승하였을 뿐만 아니라 인플레이션 기대와 실제 인플레이션 사이의 격차가 빠르게 축소되는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.65-75
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• 2021

This study analyzes the validity of the Phillips curve with regards to Turkey. The existence and direction of the causality relationship (reason-outcome relationship) between unemployment and inflation is investigated using inflation and unemployment data for the period 1980-2019. Unit root tests were utilized to evaluate the stationarity of the series. In line with the Zivot-Andrews unit root test, which was developed in response to the criticism of the failure of studies that presented macro-variables like inflation to consider traditional unit root tests, in this research, the Engle-Granger cointegration test was implemented to check whether the series could perform a joint action, and, finally, the Granger causality relationship was explored. According to the results of the analysis, over the relevant period there was a single directional causality relationship from inflation toward unemployment in Turkey. The importance of this relationship at the 10% significance level indicates the existence of many different factors that affect inflation and unemployment. Given the existence of a cointegration and causality relationship between inflation and unemployment, it can be said that, in Turkey, the Phillips curve is valid for the period 1980-2019 and that an increase of 1% in inflation will reduce the unemployment rate by 0.028%.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.7-17
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• 2022

The article discusses the problems caused by inflation in the developing Asia-Pacific region during the time of the worldwide pandemic and suggests innovative solutions to the problem. The reality is that some of the commodity groups from the consumer basket (e.g., non-seasonal fruits, electronics, furniture, hotel, and restaurant services, etc.) fail to reflect the needs of the low-income earners, which make the majority in developing countries. At the same time, the inflation targeting regime has become outdated and not reliable, because of uncontrolled exogenic factors (imported inflation, fluctuation in oil prices, supply chain disruption, Russia-Ukraine war, etc.) prevailing on endogenic factors and thus making it impossible to control the price stability, especially in developing countries. Since, the old-fashioned inflation index and inflation targeting mechanisms regrettably fail to fully reflect both the society and governmental/central banks' expectations, based on which we first should have better care and second create better policies; we propose to use a combination of already well-known indexes and policies, with the new statistical indicators, which reflects price fluctuations on the medication, utilities, and nutrition.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.153-166
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• 2022

The study estimates the Structured VAR and the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model for the Vietnamese economy based on the new Keynesian model for small and open economies, with the output gap, inflation, policy interest rate, the Vietnamese exchange rate, and the inflation and interest rate in the United States. The paper aims to clarify the impulse response of the macro variables through their shocks. It offers to model the SVAR and DSGE processes, as well as describe why and how interest rate policy is important in the impulse response of macro variables like the output gap and inflation process. The study supports the central role of monetary policy by giving empirical evidence for the new Keynesian theory, according to which an interest rate shock causes the output gap to widen and inflation to decrease. Finally, the application of the DSGE model is becoming more and more popular in the State Bank of Viet Nam to improve its policy planning, analyzing, and forecasting policy towards sustainable and stable growth.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.95-120
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• 2014

본 논문은 경제주체들이 미래에 대한 기대를 형성하는 데 있어서 기대기간이 주요한 역할을 한다는 점을 밝히는 시도이다. 정보효율성과 관련된 경제학적 가정이 확률과정에 어떠한 제약으로 작용하는지에 대한 분석으로부터 출발하여, 기대변수에 대한 조정과정이 오로지 새로이 발생한 정보만을 반영하는 경우를 미래기대의 임의보정(random revision of expectation)이라는 새로운 개념으로 제시하였다. 이러한 가정하에 물가동학 결정식을 도출할 경우, 산출갭으로 측정한 수요압력의 인플레이션에 대한 영향은 기대기간에 따라 달리 식별되었다. 이러한 모형을 우리나라 자료를 이용하여 실증한 결과, 기대기간을 단기로 설정할 경우 계수 추정치는 작아지고 통계적 유의성도 떨어지는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권10호
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• pp.571-579
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• 2020

This paper examines how human capital and other economic variables, such as private investment, economic growth, government investment, inflation, and unemployment influence inequality in Indonesia's provinces. We apply panel data model with fixed effect estimation for the data of 34 provinces from the period 2013 to 2019. We develop a new index for human capital using the education index approach. The results show that human capital has a negative and significant effect on income inequality. An increase in human capital is related to an increase in knowledge and competence due to the longer average school year and expectations of the school year. Human capital has increased the possibility of a person being accepted into the job market and earning a higher income; hence, it lowers income inequality. We also find that inflation leads to a higher gap of income distribution. A further implication of this situation is that the rise in inflation causes an increase in low-income people, and as a consequence, makes their lives worse off. This paper will be beneficial for policy-makers for whom human capital, which is measured using an education index, is an important factor that significantly affects income inequality, in addition to other economic factors.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.3-19
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• 1991

인플레기대심리(期待心理)의 지속으로 통화량규제(通貨量規制)의 중요성이 부각되는 가운데 투자금융회사의 업종전환(業種轉換), 금리자유화추진(金利自由化推進) 등으로 각종 통화지표(通貨指標)의 움직임이 불안정해질 우려 때문에 통화정책운용(通貨政策運用)에 어려움을 주고 있다. 그러나 본고(本稿)의 연구결과(硏究結果)에 의하면 70년대 중반 이후 금융환경(金融環境)이 급변하여 왔음에도 불구하고 실질(實質)M2는 실질(實質)GNP 및 기회비용(機會費用)(예상(豫想)인플레율(率)에서 M2가중평균수신금리(加重平均受信金利)를 뺀 것)과 장기적으로 안정적인 관계를 가지며, 이는 유통속도(流通速度)와 기회비용간(機會費用間)의 정(正)의 장기적 균형관계로 간략화 시킬 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 사안(事案)의 성격에 따라서 다르겠으나 앞으로의 금융구조변화(金融構造變化)가 반드시 M2유통속도(流通速度)의 움직임을 불안정하게 할 것으로 미리 단정할 필요는 없겠다. 또한 예상(豫想)인플레율(率)이 M2가중평균수신금리(加重平均受信金利)를 지속적으로 상회한다면 유통속도(流通速度)도 그 간의 하락추세에서 벗어나 궁극적으로 상승하게 되며, 이는 기존의 금융정책기조(金融政策基調)의 변화를 요구하는 것이다. 즉 금리자유화(金利自由化)가 이루어져 있지 않은 현여건(現與件) 하에서나 혹은 향후(向後)에 일부(一部) 금리(金利)만을 자유화할 경우에는 정책당국이 시장기능(市場機能)을 대신하여 예상(豫想)인플레율(率)의 변화를 감안하여 수신금리(受信金利)를 수시로 조정하여야 한다. 또한 실물적(實物的) 요인(要因)이 아닌 금융산업개편(金融産業改編)과 같은 금융적(金融的) 요인(要因)에 의한 통화증가가능성(通貨增加可能性)이 존재한다면 수신금리(受信金利)를 탄력적(彈力的)으로 상향조정함으로써 실물경제(實物經濟)에 대한 충격을 최소화하는 등 금리정책(金利政策)의 중요성을 제고하여야 한다.