• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.21-44
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• 2022

Purpose - This study quantifies sources of trade balance dynamics over the business cycle in Korea. Specifically, we quantify the relative importance of domestic and foreign factors on trade balance dynamics using a small open economy real business cycle (SOE-RBC) model and provide policy implications for stabilization policies. Aggregate productivity and interest rate spreads are considered domestic factors affecting the trade balance. A world interest rate (the U.S. interest rate) is considered a foreign factor. Design/methodology - Following Neumeyer and Perri (2005), we build the SOE-RBC model with three types of shocks: aggregate productivity, interest rate spread, and world interest shocks. The model is estimated by the generalized method of moments (GMM) using relevant business cycle statistics. The estimated model is used for quantifying the relative importance of domestic and foreign factors on trade balance dynamics in Korea. Findings - Our main findings can be summarized as follows: 85.64% of the trade balance fluctuations in Korea are explained by domestic factors, the remaining 14.35% by foreign factors. Particularly, trade balance dynamics are mostly accounted for by the change in aggregate productivity shocks (85.58%). World interest rate shocks considerably explain trade balance (14.35%), whereas the role of interest rate spread shocks that represent domestic risks is limited (0.08%). Although aggregate productivity is key in explaining trade balance dynamics in Korea, interest rates still have an essential role. This is because aggregate productivity changes induce interest rate spread variations and, thus, the trade balance significantly. The results suggest that government policies mitigating fluctuations in aggregate productivity would be effective for stabilization policies in Korea by reducing the trade balance volatility. Originality/value - Existing studies on the emerging market business cycle examine mostly Latin American countries, and the main object of the studies is the volatility of consumption rather than trade balance dynamics. Conversely, our study examines Korea rather than Latin American countries. Additionally, we examine sources of trade balance dynamics, which are relatively more important in Korea, rather than those of the volatility of consumption. Hence, we estimate the model to explicitly match moments related to trade balance in the data.

• 무역학회지
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.17-30
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• 2019

This study is to investigate the effect of real exchange rate on bilateral trade balance between Korea and ASEAN 10 countries. Using quarterly data from 1991 to 2017 the paper analyzes whether or not the real depreciation of Korea's won could improve the trade balance in the short and long term. Based on Autoregressive Distributed Lag(ARDL) model, the empirical results show that trade balance, GDP, and real exchange rate are all cointegrated, representing the long-run relationship among variables. In the consideration of long-run relationship, the increases in ASEAN countries' GDP could have a negative impact and Korea's GDP positive impact on trade balance between Korea and ASEAN countries unexpectedly. For the main variable, the paper did not find the long-term effect of real exchange rate on the trade balance, for the short-term effect of the real exchange rate it was found that there exists the J-curve effect only in the case of Vietnam and Brunei. Therefore, these results imply that the intended policy concerning the exchange rate in the free-floating exchange rate system could be limited to improve the trade balance between Korea and ASEAN countries.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2021

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the exchange rate and Trade Balance. Trade Balance is used as the dependent variable, and the independent variables are Exchange Rate, Gross Domestic Product, and Inflation. Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root test was adopted to test the stationary property of time series data, Auto Regressive Distributed Lag model was employed to find the long run and short-run relationship and long-run adjustment, Bound test approach, the unrestricted Error Correction Model and Granger Causality Test are used to analyze the data from 1977 to 2019. The research findings suggest that inflation has a positive impact on the trade balance in the short run. The exchange rate and the Gross Domestic Product have adverse effects on Trade balance in the long run. The coefficient of ER in the previous year is negative, and the coefficient of TB in the previous year is positive and significant. This is consistent with the J-Curve phenomenon, which states that devaluation may not improve trade balance in the immediate period, but will significantly impact the trade balance improvement in subsequent periods. Hence Marshall Lerner Condition exists in Sri Lanka.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2011

본 논문은 금융위기 이후 대중 수출증가가 경기회복에 주도적 역할을 하고, 우리경제의 중국경제 의존도가 크게 상승하는 상황에서 J-curve 효과가 우리나라 대중국 항만 수출입 흐름에 적용되는가를 월별자료를 이용하여 2000년부터 2010년까지의 기간에 대해 실증분석 하였다. 오차수정모형을 추정한 결과 단기적인 조정역할은 실질실효환율이 수행하는 것으로 나타났으며, 분산분해 결과 대중국 항만 무역수지에 대한 영향력이 국내경기보다 실질실효 환율과 세계경기가 더 크게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 이와 더불어 수준변수로 구성된 VAR과 오차수정항을 포함한 VECM을 이용한 충격반응 분석을 실시한 결과 대중국 항만 무역수지는 환율 충격에 대하여 시차를 두고 반응을 보이는 것으로 나타나 J-curve 효과가 존재함을 알 수 있었다.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.298-324
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• 2009

본 논문의 연구목적은 원화환율의 변화가 국내 서비스무역수지에 미치는 영향을 분석하는 것이다. 실증분석 결과에 의하면 우리나라의 서비스수지는 주로 원/달러, 원/엔 환율에 의해서 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 서비스수지 수입 및 지급은 원/달러 환율과는 부의 관계를, 원/엔 환율과는 정의 관계를 갖는다. 원/달러, 원/엔 환율이 동시에 절하될 경우 서비스수지는 개선되는 것으로 나타났다. 운수수지는 원/달러, 원/엔, 그리고 원/위안 환율, 여행수지는 원/달러 환율, 그리고 사업서비스수지는 원/달러, 원/엔 환율에 의해서 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.85-119
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• 2018

주요 상대국들과 무역에서 환율과 노동숙련도의 구성이 베트남의 무역수지에 미치는 역할 본 연구는 베트남이 주요 20개국과 무역을 할 때 환율과 노동숙련도의 구성이 무역수지에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 2000년부터 2016년까지의 균형패널자료 (balanced panel data)를 활용해서, 저자는 베트남의 총 무역수지와 노동기술의 정교화로 인한 무역수지를 분석하였다. 본 연구의 주요 세가지 결론은 아래와 같다: 첫째, 환율은 베트남의 무역수지에 긍정적인 영향을 미치지만 그 계수 (coefficient) 가 작아 그 효과는 제한적이라는 것을 알 수 있었다. 둘째 베트남 화폐 (VND(Vietnamese Dong))의 가치가 떨어질 경우 베트남의 고숙련노동상품과 중숙련사무직 노동생산품의 무역수지는 악화된다. 셋째, 고숙련상품과 중숙련 사무직 생산 상품의 노동 기술 숙련도를 높이고 비가격경쟁력을 향상시킴으로서 베트남의 총 무역수지를 개선할 수 있으며, 반면에 저숙련노동 및 중숙련 블루칼라 노동생산 상품은 더 이상 베트남의 총 무역수지개선에 도움이 되지 않을 것이다.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.227-247
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• 2012

This paper investigates the source of bilateral trade imbalance at industry level. We build a simple model based on gravity theory and derive the prediction that the bilateral trade balance in an industry is increasing in the difference between trading partners in the output share of the industry. We test this prediction and find that the difference in industry share is highly significant in predicting both the sign and the magnitude of trade balance at industry level. We also find that FTAs tend to enlarge trade imbalance at industry level. However, the overall predictive power of the model is rather limited, suggesting that factors other than production specialization are important in determining trade balance at industry level. Another finding of the paper is that the influence of the difference in industry share on trade balance increases as we move to industries that produce more homogeneous products. This finding calls into question monopolistic competition as the main driver of gravity in international trade.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권10호
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• pp.49-59
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• 2022

This paper examined the impact of real exchange rate volatility on trade balance in Malaysia by using quarterly data from year 2000 until 2019. Generalized Autoregressive Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model was used to extract the volatility component of real exchange rate before examining its impact on trade balance. Furthermore, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model was used to investigate the long-run relationship and short-run dynamic between trade balance, money supply, national income and volatility of exchange rate. Empirical results show the existence of co-movement between variables under study in the long-run. However, the results also suggest that volatility of real exchange rate does not significantly affect trade balance neither in the long-run nor short-run. The risk which is associated in the movement of exchange rate do not influence trader's behaviour toward Malaysia exports and imports. Thus, it should be note that any depreciation or appreciation in Malaysian Ringgit do not have an impact towards trade balance either it is being further improved or deteriorates. Hence, exchange rate volatility may not be too concern for policymakers. This may be partially due to manage floating exchange rate regime that has been adopted by Malaysia eventually eliminated the element of risk in the currency market.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.92-100
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• 2020

본 연구의 목적은 ICT 산업의 수출중량과 수입중량, 수출금액, 수입금액, 무역수지와의 관계를 분석하는 것이고 관세청 무역통계에서 자료를 수집하였다. 분석기간은 2000년부터 2018년까지 총 19년간 연간자료를 사용하였다. 변동률 분석은 무역수지, 수출금액, 수입금액, 수입중량, 수출중량 순으로 크게 나타났으며 상승률 분석은 무역수지가 919%로 가장 높게 나타났다. 상관분석에서 무역수지는 수출액(0.95)과 가장 높은 상관계수를 보여주었다. 회귀분석결과 종속변수인 무역수지에 대해 수출액은 Coefficient 2.37로 양(+)의 방향으로 나타났고 각 변수들은 상호 독립적으로 변동하고 있다. 지난 2000년 이후 한국 ICT 산업의 무역수지가 한국 총 무역수지의 84%를 주도해 왔다. 향후 한국 수출과 경제발전을 위해 한국 ICT 산업을 더욱 발전시켜야 하고 무역수지 증가를 위해 수출액을 더욱 증가시켜야 할 것이다. 다음 논문에서는 ICT 산업을 세분화하여 구체적으로 발전 가능한 분야를 찾아보아야 한다.

• 동아시아경상학회지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.1-32
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• 2017

Purpose - This study is to analyze the main macroeconomic indicators in Russia and the leading countries- partners and to research GDP, the debt, the foreign trade and other indicators. This main indicator is using in regulation in the economic stability of country, of stability of trade with countries-partners. Research design, data, and methodology - This paper used the amount of data to be analyzed at the present stage, from the 2010 to 2015 in Russia. In order to assess trends of development, the array of data on the indicators used for the 1995-2017. The data analyzed using the methods of multivariate statistics and application of the software package Stat graphics. Results - Hypothesis 1. In the recent years GDP has tended to increase in the most countries of the world. In Russia and its structure of branch of economics is uneven. Hypothesis 2. The foreign trade turnover also has tended to grow. The foreign trade balance in Russia and in the leading countries-partners has a positive balance, dominated by the export of goods. Conclusions - This paper finds that the foreign trade turnover also has tends to grow. The foreign trade balance in Russia and in the leading countries-partners has a positive balance, dominated by the export of goods.