Publication
The Korean Economic Forum
Impact of Foreign Investment in Korea Treasury Bill Futures and Its Policy Implication
Kyu Ho Kang (Korea University) and Young Kyung Suh (The Bank of Korea)Year 2022Vol. 15No. 3
Abstract
This study analyzes the effect of fluctuations caused by foreign investors’
participation in the Korea Treasury Bill (KTB) futures market on the yield to
maturity of KTBs. To this end, we develop an auto-regressive distributed-lag
model with stochastic volatility that can simultaneously estimate the expected
return channel and the volatility channel, which are two channels that the
futures market affects on the spot market. A modified model is set up to take
into account the asymmetry of the transition effect by time period, and it is
estimated using Gibbs-sampling. According to estimation results, foreign net
selling of futures raises the spot interest rate and increases the volatility of the
spot market. In addition, the asymmetric transfer effect by macro and market
conditions was analyzed, and it was found that the increase in the 3-year spot
rate due to the net selling of foreign futures was larger during the period of net
selling of foreign futures, the period of raising the Bank of Korea base rate, and
the period of raising the US policy rate.