• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.39-70
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• 2015

This paper examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on South Asian economies' output growth, utilizing recent panel cointegration testing and estimation techniques. Annual panel data on eight SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) member countries' macroeconomic variables over the period 1960- 2013 are employed in empirical analysis. Using various heterogeneous panel cointegration and panel causality tests, a bi-directional relationship between FDI and growth is found. We find evidence for both FDI-led growth and growth-induced FDI hypotheses for the South Asian economies over the sample period. Individual member countries exhibit heterogeneity in terms of the direction or existence of causality subject to their idiosyncratic economic conditions. Among various regressors, FDI, financial development, human capital, and government consumption show the most significant positive effects on output growth. As determinants of FDI, GDP, financial development, human capital, and government consumption are found significant in the region. The bi-directional causality between FDI and growth is found robust to the inclusion of other control variables and using different estimation techniques.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.99-109
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• 2021

This study aims to examine the causal links between the fiscal components, i.e., government expenditures (GE) and government revenues (GR), and their impact on the economic growth of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. This analysis considered secondary panel data from 1990 to 2019 at an annual frequency. The data is obtained from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank Database. A panel cointegration and panel DH causality (Dumitrescu and Hurlin) approach was employed on financial data at an annual frequency from 1990 to 2019. The findings from panel unit root and panel cointegration tests demonstrate that, at first, all the variables are stationary and cointegrated. The panel ARDL disclosed that GE has a long-run connection with GDP, is significantly and positively associated with economic growth in the long run, whereas GR is significant in the short run. The contribution of GE is high in sustaining economic growth as compared to GR. Also, cointegration regression disclosed that GE is more sensitive toward GDP, while GR is less elastic. Lastly, the findings reveal that bidirectional causality exists between GE and GR variables. These results have policy implications for sustainable economic growth in the ASEAN region.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.307-322
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• 2012

본 논문은 패널 단위근, 패널 공적분, 패널 인과성 검정, 패널 FMOLS(fully modified OLS) 기법을 이용하여 한국의 대 동아시아 수출 결정요인을 분석하였다. 분석결과 변수들이 패널 단위근 검정을 통하여 단위근을 가지며 1차 차분 후 안정적인 자료로 전환됨을 알 수 있었으며, 패널 공적분 통계량 모두 공적분 관계가 존재하지 않는다는 귀무가설을 기각함으로써 적어도 하나의 공적분 벡터가 존재함을 알 수 있었다. 다음으로 패널 벡터오차수정모형을 도입하여 동태적 인과성 분석을 실시하였다. GDP변동이 수출변동에 영향을 미치고 수출변동이 GDP변동에 영향을 미침으로써 수출과 GDP 간에 쌍방적 인과관계가 존재함을 알 수 있었다. 그리고 ODI변동의 오차수정항 계수가 수출변동의 오차수정항 계수보다 약 1.65배 크게 나타나 ODI의 불균형에서 균형으로 조정속도가 수출보다 1.7배 정도 빠름을 확인할 수 있었다. 이와 더불어 패널 GM FMOLS 결과 환율이 1% 상승했을 때 수출이 0.28% 감소하고, GDP가 1% 증가했을 때 수출은 0.77% 증가하고, 해외직접투자가 1% 증가했을 때 수출은 0.11% 증가함을 알 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.173-183
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• 2022

The objective of this research is to examine the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock markets in a few developing and developed countries. This study uses daily data from January 2020 to May 2021 and obtained from World Health Organization and Thomson Reuters. The secondary data was evaluated through panel econometric methodology that includes different unit root tests, and to analyze the long-run relationship between variables, panel cointegration techniques were applied. The long-run causality among variables was examined through Panel Vector Error Correction Model. The overall findings of this study suggest a long-run association exists between several cases and death with the stock returns of the GCC and other stock markets. Furthermore, the VECM model also identified a long-run causality running from COVID cases and death towards the stock rerun of both sets of stock markets. However, a subsequent Wald test yielded mixed results, indicating no short-run causality between cases and deaths and stock returns in both groups; however, in the case of GCC, several COVID-19 cases are having a causal impact on stock markets, which is notable in light of the fact that the death rate in GCC is significantly lower than in many developed and developing countries.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.165-176
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• 2021

The paper has used the Solow-Swan growth model to analyze the long-term impact of credit market development and stock market development on economic growth in Asia from 2000 to 2019. The empirical model is performed with panel cointegration analysis by Common Correlated Effects (CCE) method with cross-sectional dependencies. The results find that there exists a cointegration relationship among stock market, credit market development, and economic growth. These results also show that financial structure improves the exact impact of financial development on economic growth, namely the opposite effect of stock market development and credit market development. Moreover, the Granger causality test reveals a bi-directional relationship between credit market development and economic growth, while only unidirectional causality from stock market development to economic growth for the whole group panel. And it is different for a specific country, according to Kónya's test. The view of the new structuralism does not apply in the Asian financial system when we estimate the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (NARDL) to analyze the asymmetric relationship between financial structure and economic growth. On the whole, policymakers can draw on the findings to provide policy implications to improve their country's financial system as well as pursue the goal of sustainable economic growth.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.77-88
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• 2021

The stock markets in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries are the leading emerging markets globally. Therefore, it is pertinent to ascertain the critical drivers of stock market development in these economies. The currrent study empirically investigates to identify the linkages between stock market development, key macro-economic factors and institutional factors in the BRICS economies. The study covers the time period from 2000 to 2017. The dependent variable is the country's stock market development and the independent variables consist of six macroeconomic variables and five institutional variables. The study employs a panel cointegration test, Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS), a Pooled Mean Group (PMG) approach and a heterogeneous panel non-causality test.The findings of the study indicate co-integration among the selected variables across the BRICS stock markets. Long-run estimations reveal that five macroeconomic variables and four variables related to institutional quality are positive and statistically significant. Further, short-run causalities between stock market capitalization and selected variables are detected through the test of non-causality in a heterogeneous panel setting. The findings suggest that policymakers in the BRICS countries should enhance robust macroeconomic conditions to support their financial markets and should strengthen the institutional quality drivers to stimulate the pace of stock market development in their countries.

• 지역연구
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.29-40
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• 2020

이 연구의 목적은 지역경제 성장과 지역 내 격차 간 관계를 파악하는 것이다. 우리나라 16개 광역지자체, 수도권, 동남권을 공간적 범위로 하였으며 2005년부터 2016년까지를 시간적 범위로 하였다. 지역경제 성장과 지역 내 격차는 지역내총생산 자료를 이용하였다. 각 공간단위별 패널자료를 구축한 다음 자료의 안정성을 확인하기 위해 패널단위근 검정과 패널공적분 검정을 시행하였으며, 지역경제 성장과 지역 내 격차 간 관계는 DOLS 방법을 이용하였으며, 인과성 검증을 위해서 VECM모형과 그랜져인과관계 검정을 시행하였다. 16개 광역지자체 단위를 대상으로 분석한 결과 지역경제 성장이 진행됨에 따라 지역 내부 격차는 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 지역 내 총생산이 1% 증가할 때 지역 내부 격차는 1.258% 증가하였으며, 단기 및 장기적 인과관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 수도권과 동남권은 모두 지역경제 성장과 지역 내부 격차 증감이 상호 간 인관관계성이 있었으나, 수도권은 격차가 증가하는 양상을 보였으며 동남권은 감소하는 양상으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 지역 내 격차가 전국적으로 증가하고 있으나 수도권과 비수도권을 대표하는 광역경제권인 동남권의 양상은 서로 다름을 보여주었으며 서로 상이한 성장단계에 있음을 확인하였다는데 의의가 있다.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.109-124
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• 2020

본 연구는 2015년 1월부터 2019년 12월까지의 건화물선 시장의 운임과 선가에 대한 패널 자료로부터 해운경기변동 특성을 분석한다. 분석은 두 가지 측면의 학술적 기여를 목표로 한다. 첫째, 기존연구가 전반적인 해운경기지표와 선박가격 지표를 대상으로 하는 반면 본 연구는 선종별로 세분화한 자료를 대상으로 해운경기지표와 선박 수급에 의한 가격변화의 관계를 분석한다. 둘째, 인과성 검정을 위한 VAR 모형을 계수에 대한 제약이 가능한 다차원 혼합 패널(heterogeneous mixed panel)모형으로 확장한다. 무엇보다도 패널 데이터 분석에서 주로 제기되는 계열상관 문제를 붓스트랩(bootstrap) 추정으로 제거하고 불안정한 자료에 대한 차분에 의한 정보손실 문제를 해결하여 추정한 정점이 존재한다. 해운시장에서 경기변동 요인과 선가 간의 인과관계에 대한 추정결과는 운임의 선가에 대한 영향이 1% 수준에서 통계적으로 유의한 것으로 나타났으나, 선박의 수급변화로 발생하는 선가의 변화가 해운경기에 미치는 영향은 존재하지 않는 것으로 드러났다. 이는 선박수급변화(선가변화)와 해운경기변화(운임변화) 간의 양방향(bilateral)의 인과관계보다는 해운경기변화(운임변화)의 선박수급변화(선가변화)에 대한 일방향(unilateral)의 인관관계가 존재함을 나타내는 실증분석 결과다.