Structural shifts characterize the volatility of the Korean stock and foreign exchange markets during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This paper employs an unrestricted bivariate GARCH-M model of stock market returns to investigate empirically the effects of daily currency depreciation on Korean stock market returns. The evidence shows that currency depreciation significantly affects stock mar...

financial markets are one of the most crucial markets in every country. stock exchange market and exchange market are the most sensitive sectors of financial market. these markets are affected by fluctuations and business cycles in the economy and they reflect economic changes to the economy. on the other hand, disturbance in one or both markets cause concerns among policy makers. dynamic inter...

It has been argued that (official) dollarization facilitates financial integration and a better performance of the domestic banking system. However, before adopting dollarization it is necessary a deep discussion on the pros and cons of this scheme. With a few exceptions, the advantages of dollarization have not been discussed in a dynamic general equilibrium framework, especially for partially...

the relationship between productivity of economic sectors, effective real exchange rate, and purchasing power is a burning economic issue. based on the “balassa – samuelson” theory, higher economic productivity for tradeable goods leads to an increase in effective real exchange rate which is indicative of higher value of domestic money and higher purchasing power of money. the purpose of this s...