• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.221-244
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• 2024

This study examines how the independence of monetary policy changes in situations where the interest rate differential between domestic and foreign rates inverts, utilizing the trilemma indices. For analysis, this paper uses the trilemma indices developed by Kim et al. (2017) to analyze the relationship between the monetary policy independence index and the other two trilemma indices, namely the capital account openness index and the exchange rate stability index, across 45 countries from 2002 to 2018. The analysis reveals that the trilemma's validity is contingent. In particular, no statistically significant negative correlation was found between the monetary policy independence index and exchange rate stability index during periods of interest rate differential inversion. A positive correlation emerges between exchange rate stability and the independence of monetary policy, particularly when the inverted interest rate differential exceeds a certain threshold. This situation, where the exchange rate remains stable despite low domestic interest rates, implies that the central bank is effectively managing monetary policy to appropriately respond to economic conditions, which is reflected in the monetary policy independence index.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.135-149
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• 2022

Purpose - The primary objective of this article is to investigate the impact of U.S. monetary policy on institutional / individual / foreign investor reactions in the Korean stock market. Design/methodology/approach - This study employs a high frequency event study methodology to identify U.S. monetary policy shocks and quantify the impact of identified shocks on investor reactions. The dependent variable in the regression model is net stock purchase, while the explanatory variables are U.S. monetary policy shocks. The model is estimated for the period 2000-2019, including 156 FOMC meetings. Findings - Foreign investors immediately sell stocks in response to contractionary U.S. monetary shocks. They do not, however, react to anticipated changes in monetary policy rates, confirming the rationality of foreign investors. Individual investors demonstrate the opposite response, indicating that a non-trivial proportion of individual investors are irrational. Research implications or Originality - This study adds to the current literature on the effect of U.S. monetary policy on the Korean stock market. This study demonstrates a heterogeneous response to U.S. monetary policy shocks, validating the rational investment behavior of foreign investors, while individual investors exhibit a certain degree of irrationality. Methodologically, this study adds to the literature by quantifying the impact of U.S. monetary policy employing a sharper identification method allowing a simple and consistent estimation.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.84-88
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• 2019

This paper examines whether the exchange rate respond differently to monetary policy shocks in Korea using regression model. We find an asymmetric response of the monetary policy shocks to the monetary policy shocks in the context of Korea. Over the whole period sample, we do not find the effect of an actual interest rate on exchange rate. But we find that the estimated coefficient on the expected and unexpected change in the policy rate are negative and statistically significant. In the period of monetary policy easing, the estimated coefficient on the expected and unexpected change in the policy rate are negative but not statistically significant. In contrast, the period of monetary policy tightening, the estimated coefficient on the expected and unexpected change in the policy rate are negative and statistically significant.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.1-26
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• 2010

본 논문은 한국이 1997년 외환위기 이후 변동환율제 도입과 더불어 자본자유화로 자본시장이 글로벌화된 상황에서 외부로부터 독립적인 통화정책을 유지할 수 있었는지를 자본자유화 이전 기간과 비교하여 분석했다. 트릴레마 이론에 비추어보면, 자본자유화 이전에는 환율시장에 적극적으로 개입을 해도 이론적으로 독립적인 통화정책을 유지할 수 있는 여지가 있었으며, 자본자유화 이후에는 환율제도가 자유변동환율제도로 전환함에 따라 독립적인 통화정책을 유지할 수 있는 여지가 있었다. 하지만 한국과 같은 소규모 개방경제의 경우 자본시장이 완전히 개방되어 국가 간 연계성이 증가하고, 막대한 양의 국제자본 유출입이 발생하여 환율과 자산 시장의 심각한 불안정성을 초래할 수 있으므로 외국의 통화정책과 자본 흐름으로부터 완전히 자유로운 통화정책을 집행하기 어려울 수 있다. 본 논문의 실증분석에서는 부를 미국으로 국한하여 한국의 통화정책이 미국의 통화정책으로부터 독립적인지 블록 외생성 구조 VAR 모형을 이용하여 자세히 분석하였다. 그 결과 한국의 통화정책이 자본자유화 이전과 이후 두 기간 모두에서 미국의 통화정책으로부터 완전히 독립적으로 운용되지 못하였던 것으로 보인다. 자본자유화 이후 기간의 경우 완전한 변동환율제를 실제로 운용하기는 쉽지 않았고, 이로 인해 필연적으로 한국의 통화정책은 외부의 충격으로부터 완전히 독립적이지 못했던 것으로 보인다. 또한 자본자유화 이후 기간에는 포트폴리오 자본의 유출입이 자본자유화 이전 기간에 비해 매우 민감하게 변화하여 독립적인 통화정책의 운영에 어려움을 초래한 것으로 보인다. 따라서 향후 자본의 글로벌화에 효과적으로 대응하면서 통화정책을 독립적으로 유지할 수 있는 정책의 틀을 개발하는 것이 시급하다고 하겠다.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.531-555
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• 2018

This article aims to review the monetary policy rule under inflation targeting framework focusing on Mongolia. The empirical analysis estimates the policy reaction function to see if the inflation targeting has been linked with a monetary policy rule emphasizing on inflation stabilization since its adoption in 2007. The study contributes to the literature by examining the linkage between Mongolian monetary policy rule and inflation targeting directly and thoroughly for the first time and also by taking into account a recent progress in the inflation targeting framework toward forward-looking mode. The main findings were: the Mongolian current monetary policy rule under inflation targeting is characterized as inflation-responsive rule with forward-looking manner (one quarter ahead); the inflation responsiveness is, however, weak enough to be pro-cyclical to inflation pressure; and the rule is also responsive to exchange rate due to the "fear of floating", which weakens the policy reaction to inflation and output gap.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.73-97
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• 2021

China has experienced many structural changes in the process of economic development over the past three decades. Using a time-varying parameter VAR model with stochastic volatility and mixture innovations, this study investigates whether such structural changes in, especially tools and operational aims of monetary policy, affect the monetary transmission mechanism. We find that impulse responses of output growth and inflation to monetary shocks have substantially increased and then reversed to decrease around 2005-2006. This time variation is mainly caused by changes in the monetary transmission mechanism, i.e., the manner in which main macroeconomic variables respond to policy shocks, rather than by changes in volatilities of exogenous shocks. The result implies that aggressive monetary policy to facilitate economic growth in the developing economies may be legitimized, unless it causes inflation seriously.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.791-800
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• 2021

Along with the trend of financial globalization, Vietnam has undergone a process of increasing financial integration. The great capital inflow poses a problem for the monetary policy's ability to follow a planned target during the changes in the global financial markets. This paper aims to examine the impact of financial integration on monetary policy independence in Vietnam and investigate the role of foreign exchange reserves on this relationship. The research borrows from Mundell-Fleming's Trilemma theory. The results show that increasing financial integration reduces the independence of monetary policy in the short term, and foreign exchange reserves have not shown an apparent role in Vietnam. In addition, increasing exchange rate stability has a negative impact on the independence of monetary policy, but it has an impact on growing market confidence and partly supporting the management process of monetary policy in the short term. Therefore, in the long run, Vietnam needs to allow exchange rate flexibility more, but there should not be sudden changes; the size of foreign exchange reserves should be strengthened to facilitate the implementation of an independent monetary policy with an obvious impact in the context of an increasing scale of international capital flows in the future.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-27
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• 2012

본 연구는 거시건전성 감독의 정의 목적, 통화신용정책과의 보완, 상충 관계 및 효과를 분석하고 있다. 한국의 경험을 살펴보면 금융안정을 위한 LTV나 DTI의 감독효과는 분명히 나타나지 않는다. 더구나 물가가 안정되어 있는 여건에서 금융시장의 불안이 심화되는 경우, 거시건전성감독과 통화신용정책은 서로 상충되는 결과를 초래할 수 있다. 이러한 불합리성을 최소화하기 위해서는 중앙은행, 감독당국, 그리고 재정정책의 주체 간의 정책조정이 선행되어야 한다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.59-90
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• 2020

U.S. monetary policy has been claimed to generate global spillover and to destabilize other small open economies. We analyze the effects of certain identified U.S. monetary shocks on gross capital flows in the Korean economy using the local projection method. Consistent with previous results on other small open economies, we initially confirm that U.S. interest rate hikes are dynamically correlated with foreign outflows and residents' inflows. That is, not only are they correlated with withdrawals by foreigners but they are also correlated with those by domestic (Korean) investors. The results are mostly driven by portfolio flows. Second, however, the marginal response to a U.S. monetary policy shock is, on average, subdued if we focus on the sample periods after the Global financial crisis of 2007-2008 (henceforth, global financial crisis). We conjecture a possible reason behind the change, an institutional change related to financial friction. If the degree of pledgeability of the value of net worth increases, the marginal responses by both investors would drop with a U.S. monetary policy shock, consistent with our findings.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2014

본고는 4개의 거시변수들을 포함한 Time Varying VAR 모형을 통해 한국의 통화정책 변화를 평가하였다. 첫째, 외환위기나 금융위기 때와 같이 통화정책이 환율변동에 대해 민감하게 변화하는 시기가 존재하므로 위기를 포함한 긴 표본 안에서 한국의 통화정책을 평가할 때는 환율을 모형안에 포함시키는 것이 필요하다. 둘째, 표본기간 내에서 이례적인 큰 변동성이 때때로 나타나는 한국 거시변수들을 설명하기 위해서는 stochastic volatilities를 TVP-VAR 모형 내에서 설정할 필요가 있다. 한편, 2000년대 거시변수들의 안정화는 stochastic volatilities의 감소에 의해 설명되며, 부분적으로는 거시경제의 구조를 반영하는 충격반응함수에 의해서도 설명된다. 셋째, 통화정책의 인플레이션에 대한 유효성의 크기는 예전에 비해 최근 약화된 편이나 유효성의 지속성은 비교적 높아진 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 인플레이션 안정화에 대한 통화정책의 기조는 물가안정목표제가 도입되기 전에 비해 그 후에 적극적인 방향으로 개선되어 왔음을 보이고 있다. 하지만 우리나라의 통화정책은 그 기조가 경기변동에 비해 인플레이션 안정화에 대하여 여전히 덜 적극적인 것을 감안할 때 개선될 여지가 있는 것으로 판단된다.