Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1108/jdqs-05-2023-0009
Jaeram Lee, Changjun Lee
{"title":"The performance distribution and managerial skill of passive funds: evidence from the Korean market","authors":"Jaeram Lee, Changjun Lee","doi":"10.1108/jdqs-05-2023-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-05-2023-0009","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the performance distribution of passive funds in the Korean market and compares it with the performance distribution of active funds. The key findings are as follows, first, the performance distribution of passive funds has a thicker tail compared to that of active funds. There are passive funds that achieve outstanding performance, and both the false discovery rate (FDR) analysis and simulation analysis suggest that their outperformance is driven by managerial skill rather than luck. Second, passive fund performance is more persistent compared to active fund performance. Third, investors are less responsive to passive fund performance compared to active fund performance. The fund flow-performance relationship is significantly positive for active funds but not for passive funds. This implies that investors may not recognize the managerial skills of passive funds.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135567781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1108/jdqs-07-2022-0018
Jaewon Choi, Jieun Lee
{"title":"Network-based measures of systemic risk in Korea","authors":"Jaewon Choi, Jieun Lee","doi":"10.1108/jdqs-07-2022-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-07-2022-0018","url":null,"abstract":"The authors estimate systemic risk in the Korean economy using the econometric measures of commonality and connectedness applied to stock returns. To assess potential systemic risk concerns arising from the high concentration of the economy in large business groups and a few export-oriented sectors, the authors perform three levels of estimation using individual stocks, business groups, and industry returns. The results show that the measures perform well over the study’s sample period by indicating heightened levels of commonality and interconnectedness during crisis periods. In out-of-sample tests, the measures can predict future losses in the stock market during the crises. The authors also provide the recent readings of their measures at the market, chaebol, and industry levels. Although the measures indicate systemic risk is not a major concern in Korea, as they tend to be at the lowest level since 1998, there is an increasing trend in commonality and connectedness since 2017. Samsung and SK exhibit increasing degrees of commonality and connectedness, perhaps because of their heavy dependence on a few major member firms. Commonality in the finance industry has not subsided since the financial crisis, suggesting that systemic risk is still a concern in the banking sector.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135859758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2019-08-31DOI: 10.1108/jdqs-03-2019-b0004
Kyoim Lee
{"title":"Price Momentum in Korea and the Effect of Investors’ Trading","authors":"Kyoim Lee","doi":"10.1108/jdqs-03-2019-b0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-03-2019-b0004","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates domestic individual, institutional and foreign investors’ trading, to test Hong and Stein (1999)’s behavioral explanation that momentum profit is generated as some uninformed investors underreact to information on medium-term prices. Using Hvidkjaer (2006)’s methodology, we examine the respective investors’ trading tendencies reflected in their active price-setting orders. We analyze a special database compiling details on every transaction for the stocks listed on the KSE during 1996:12~2009:08. During 2001~2007, individual investors’ underreaction in trading large-size winner stocks contributes to positive momentum profits. They seem to induce weak negative profits to emerge in 1997~2000, too. Foreign investors underreact to small-size loser stocks, incurring positive momentum profits during 2001~2007. They engage in positive feedback trading, when they trade large-size winner stocks. This trading tendency does not seem to be based on information on firm fundamentals, as we find those winner stocks’ returns are not sustained. Institutional investors’ trading seems to be relatively in line with future returns, but evidences are not strong enough to support they are informed investors. Overall, the behavioral hypothesis on investors’ underreaction seems to explain medium-term momentum profits in Korea, but evidences differing across subsamples suggest possibility of other unknown influences.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42331973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2019-08-31DOI: 10.1108/jdqs-03-2019-b0001
Kwangil Bae
{"title":"Research on the American Call Options on the Stocks Paying Multiple Dividends","authors":"Kwangil Bae","doi":"10.1108/jdqs-03-2019-b0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-03-2019-b0001","url":null,"abstract":"Cassimon et al. (2007) propose a pricing formula of American call options under the multiple dividends by extending Roll (1977). However, because these studies investigate the option pricing formula under the escrow model, there is inconsistency for the assumption of the stock prices. This paper proposes pricing formulas of American call options under the multiple dividends and piecewise geometric Brownian motion. For the formulas, I approximate the log prices of ex-dividend dates to follow a multivariate normal distribution, and decompose the option price as a function of payoffs and exercise boundaries. Then, I obtain an upper bound of the American call options by substituting approximated log prices into the both of the payoffs and the exercise boundaries. Besides, I obtain a lower bound of the price by substituting approximated price only into the exercise boundaries. These upper and lower bounds are exact prices when the amounts of dividends are linear to the stock prices. According to the numerical study, the lower bound produces relatively small errors. Especially, it produces small errors when the dividends are more sensitive to the stock price changes.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42862051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2019-08-31DOI: 10.1108/JDQS-03-2019-B0002
Sun‐Joong Yoon, Sangki Lee
{"title":"Fee Structures of Outsourced CIO and the Operational Efficiency","authors":"Sun‐Joong Yoon, Sangki Lee","doi":"10.1108/JDQS-03-2019-B0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/JDQS-03-2019-B0002","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the problems associated with the management fee on outsourced CIOs in the public pension funds in Korea and proposes a better management fee structure. The main results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the outsourced CIO is likely to make a profit, provided that the management cost of the outsourced CIO is lower than a fixed ratio in a fee structure. Second, the profit margin of public funds increases as the fixed ratio decreases. Third, the outsourced CIOs can make a sure profit under the existence of the fixed fee only, regardless of the performance of public funds. In addition, the profit of outsourced CIOs increases as the level of delegation fees for sub-management firms decreases. However, such a fee structure may result in making worse the overall performance of funds ultimately. Fourth, it is necessary to introduce the performance-linked fee structure when the outsourced CIOs of public pension funds are selected. Such a fee structure can mitigate the possibility that the outsourced CIOs reassigns fund to sub-management firms with low management capacities, thereby lowering the fund’s overall performance.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47529929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2019-05-31DOI: 10.1108/jdqs-02-2019-b0002
Myounggu Lee, Jin S. Kim
{"title":"The Effects of Corporate Governance on CEO Compensation","authors":"Myounggu Lee, Jin S. Kim","doi":"10.1108/jdqs-02-2019-b0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-02-2019-b0002","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to find the effects of corporate governance on executive compensation using the sample of Korean manufacturing firms listed on the Korea Exchange (KRX) from 2005 to 2012. In order to do that, this study extends empirical models of Core et al. (1999), Fahlenbrach (2009), Giroud and Mueller (2011), and finds the following results. First, internal corporate governance negatively affects executive compensation, implying that a good corporate governance can prevent outrageous compensation to top executives with poor performance. On the other hand, the interactions between internal and external corporate governance mechanisms have mixed results. While the first interaction has little impact on executive compensation, the second interaction among three different mechanisms has a positive and statistically significant impact. These results imply that while internal corporate governance and product market competition works against executive compensation, labor union may be in the same boat with managers in terms of compensation. Unlike most previous studies based on one-dimensional approach, this study investigates interactions among various corporate governance mechanisms. Overall results have a few important economic and social implications. Because internal corporate governance works as an effective mechanism, policymakers should find ways to make internal control mechanisms as independent as possible.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43306640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2019-05-31DOI: 10.1108/jdqs-02-2019-b0001
S. Kang
{"title":"Analyzing the Network Structure of Spillover Connectedness Across Index Futures Markets During Market Distress Periods","authors":"S. Kang","doi":"10.1108/jdqs-02-2019-b0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-02-2019-b0001","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to investigate the network structure of connectedness among global index futures markets in different distress periods. In this purpose, this employs the multivariate DECO-GARCH model of Engle and Kelly (2012) and the spillover index method of Diebold and Yilmaz (2014). From empirical analysis, this paper finds an evidence of a positive equicorrelation among global index futures, implying the contagion effect in global index futures markets. The spillover connectedness is intensified due to recent market distress, i.e., the 2008-2009 GFC, the 2010-2012 ESDC, the collapse of Chinese stock market in 2015, and the US FRB interest rate hike in 2018. Further, this paper measures the direction and strength of volatility connectedness assessed by the net pairwise directional spillover indexes. Thus this paper identifies the net spillover connectedness (transmitter/receiver) across global index futures markets. Finally, this paper shows the network structure of spillover connectedness in different market distress periods, and provides the channels of spillover connectedness across global index future markets.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45085653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2019-05-31DOI: 10.1108/jdqs-02-2019-b0003
Su-Jin Lee, 조진완, Jae-Hyun Lee
{"title":"Analysis on the Risk Return Profile of Alternative Assets Under Reference Portfolio Concept","authors":"Su-Jin Lee, 조진완, Jae-Hyun Lee","doi":"10.1108/jdqs-02-2019-b0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-02-2019-b0003","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides the methodology of estimating the risk-return relationship of alternative asset investments within the mean-variance framework. While conducting strategic asset allocation, most of the institutional investors do not take into account the risk-return relationship of alternative assets, or use arbitrary policy numbers that do not properly reflect the characteristics of alternative assets. This paper borrows the concept of reference portfolio in developing the methodology of estimating the risk-return relationship of alternative investments. The reference portfolio is the benchmark portfolio used in strategic asset allocation by pension funds. This can serve as the opportunity costs of alternative investments. We use the realized IRR’s from actual investments, and estimate the risk-return characteristics of alternative investments. We find that by properly estimating the mapping relationship between the reference portfolio and alternative asset classes, we can incorporate the risk-return profile of these non-market assets within the mean-variance framework together with the other traditional asset classes.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43920293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1108/jdqs-01-2019-b0001
Taehun Kang
{"title":"Strategies for Improving V-KOSPI 200 Index","authors":"Taehun Kang","doi":"10.1108/jdqs-01-2019-b0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-01-2019-b0001","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines not only the methods for eliminating stale or abnormal prices but also strategies for enhancing liquidity in the KOSPI 200 index options market, for compensating the defects of V-KOSPI 200. First, introducing market making scheme in the KOSPI 200 options market can be the direct solution to prevent temporary fluctuations and spikes of the index arising from abnormal orders and to alleviate unnatural low variability (level) of the index through decreasing the use of stale market prices (model prices). Second, if weekly options underlying KOSPI 200 index are available for trading and investor interest in the weeklys are surged, Korea Exchange can enhance V-KOSPI 200 to include series of KOSPI 200 weekly options. The inclusion for at least 5~6 weekly options available for trading allow V-KOSPI 200 to be calculated with KOSPI 200 index option series that most precisely match the 30-day target time-frame for expected volatility that the Index is intended to represent. Along with these strategies for enhancing liquidity in the KOSPI 200 index options market, the study suggests the methodology which can prevents temporary fluctuations and spikes of the index by substituting stale or abnormal prices for normal prices.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62075466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seonmul yeonguPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1108/jdqs-01-2019-b0002
J. Chae, 이은정, 이유경
{"title":"Investor Attention and Expected Return","authors":"J. Chae, 이은정, 이유경","doi":"10.1108/jdqs-01-2019-b0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-01-2019-b0002","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze the effect of investor attention level on expected return in the Korean stock market by investor type. We find that the risk-adjusted excess returns in the next period are significantly higher when the institutional and foreign investor’s attention is high. In other words, investment strategies that buy stocks in higher attention groups and sell those in lower attention groups provide significant excess returns. This result is in contrast to the argument that the market operates more competitively and moves more efficiently as the number of investors increases due to the increased investor attention. Next, we examine how the degree of attention of institutional, individual, and foreign investors affects each other. The analysis reveals that the attention of individual investors affects the attention of institutional investors in the next period, and vice versa. In addition, as a result of group analysis according to the size of company and stock price, we find that the investor's attention affects the market differently depending on the type of investors and stock price level.","PeriodicalId":34607,"journal":{"name":"Seonmul yeongu","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62075507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}