The price level in Korea has been affected by a few great intervention which were due to the government policles and the foreign factors.
From Jan. 1965 to Dec. 1986, five big shocks could be observed on the Whole Price Index (W.P.I), which were caus...
The price level in Korea has been affected by a few great intervention which were due to the government policles and the foreign factors.
From Jan. 1965 to Dec. 1986, five big shocks could be observed on the Whole Price Index (W.P.I), which were caused by the rises in oil price and changes in the foreign exchange rate.
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the nature of the shocks and their causalities to the general price level.
The Intervention Analysis technique was used to see the effect of the shocks to the W.P.I and the modified identification method of the Intervention model was suggested.
It was found that the effect of the first oil price hike in Dee. 7973 and the change in the foreign exchange rate in Dee, 1974 to the W,P.I were similar. And the effect of the second oil price hike in July 1979 and the change in the foreign exchange rate in Jan. 7980 to the W.P.1 were similar, too.
In addition, we can see that a real drop in the W.P.I is asso ciated with the effect of the reduction of oil price.