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- Title
Trade Finance and Trade Collapse during the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Republic of Korea.
- Authors
Young Song, E.
- Abstract
This study examines the role of trade finance in the trade collapse of 2008-09 from the perspective of the Korean economy. We use two approaches. Firstly, as background to a more formal analysis, we make a casual observation on the behavior of aggregate data on trade finance, on which Korea has relatively abundant data. Aggregate data do not convincingly support the view that trade finance played an active role in causing the trade collapse. The measures of trade finance and the value of trade both dropped sharply, but the ratio of trade finance over trade was stable and in some cases increased during the crisis period. Secondly, using quarterly data on listed firms in Korea, we conduct panel estimations to test whether firms that are more dependent on external finance experienced greater export contraction during the crisis. Our regression analysis suggests that the financial vulnerability of firms, measured by various financial ratios, did not contribute to export contraction during the financial crisis. This observation largely applies even to smaller firms, who are usually thought of as being more vulnerable financially. However, we find that small exporters that relied heavily on cross-border trade payables or receivables suffered larger drops in export growth during the crisis.
- Subjects
GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; EXPORT credit; STOCK exchanges; INTERNATIONAL trade financing; ECONOMIC conditions in South Korea, 2002-
- Publication
Journal of East Asian Economic Integration (JEAI), 2014, Vol 18, Issue 4, p395
- ISSN
2234-8867
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11644/KIEP.JEAI.2014.18.4.287