Issues In Korean Exchange Rate Policy

Author : Soo-Dong Kim
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Download or read book The Impact of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on Korean Industry written by Soo-Dong Kim and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stabilization of exchange rate fluctuations is an important economic policy issue for an open, export-oriented country such as South Korea. The 1997 foreign exchange crisis and the 2008 global financial crisis put the Korean foreign exchange market in great turmoil, and the instability of the exchange rate resulting from those crises seriously affected the economy as a whole. In addition, more frequent fluctuations in the value of the Korean won are causing concerns about the negative impact on foreign trade. This uncertainty in the external sector is a very important variable that can influence decision making by industries, companies and various stakeholders. As exchange rate fluctuations drew the attention of economists, they began to study their effects on macroeconomics using time series. However, recently analyses of exchange rate fluctuations have expanded to the firm level using corporate and industrial data.Meanwhile, major industrialized countries such as the U.S., Japan and the EU are trying to maintain monetary policy in a way that lowers or at least does not raise the value of their currencies for economic stability, economic recovery, and job creation. Many countries that suffer from currency appreciation and a current account deficit have been intervening in the foreign exchange market somewhat aggressively. And the debate about the legitimacy of these measures is intensifying. Countries around the world have engaged in a competition do devalue their currencies, and this trend is expected to accelerate amid creeping protectionism. For these reasons, the appreciation of the won is likely to persist over the long term, and concerns over the negative impact of this trend are also growing.Companies and industries will be affected differently by exchange rate fluctuations, depending on their export ratio, profitability and firm value, and the size of the effect will be different as well. The effect of exchange rates on the profitability of companies and industries varies depending on the characteristics and circumstances of the company in question, such as its share of exports of total sales, its dependency on the import of raw materials, and overseas market share of export products. Therefore, it is necessary to closely examine the effect of the exchange rate on corporate and industrial performance in a scenario where the won persistently appreciates. The results of this study are expected to carry various implications for individual companies operating in each industry. And these policy suggestions can be used as valuable reference materials for deploying countermeasures at the firm level. This study analyzes the effects of exchange rate fluctuations on profitability of firms and industries. This analysis will provide a basis for implementing countermeasures at the firm and industry level and design differentiated countermeasures according to the size of the impact of the exchange rate on profitability.In Chapter 2, I first examine the long-term and recent trends of the won against the currencies of major countries. And I also research the impact channel of exchange rate fluctuations on the performance or profitability of a firm or industry. I then review the previous research, which discusses how exchange rate fluctuations affect firm and industry performance. In Chapter 3, I analyze the effect of exchange rate fluctuations on the profitability of firms and industries empirically during the period from 2003 to 2017. In doing so, I theoretically examine the effect of the exchange rates on corporate profits, assuming that the final goods produced using imported raw materials are sold in domestic and foreign markets. In addition, I examine the effect of exchange rates on corporate profitability using corporate financial data and then study how it affects industry profitability according to the importance of overseas markets, whether the firm in question is listed or not and the size of company. Chapter 4 provides an overall conclusion and presents implications.