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Cost-At-Risk And Benchmark Government Debt Portfolio In Korea

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  • Joon-Ho Hahm
  • Jinho Kim

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This paper provides a framework to identify and achieve a benchmark portfolio structure for government debt based upon the trade-off between expected debt-service-cost and risk. Using actual Korean government debt data, we empirically derive a medium-term efficient frontier conditional upon the existing portfolio structure. In addition, a target benchmark portfolio is identified from the efficient frontier by employing a penalty function with cost-at-risk and duration gap as two penalty factors. The target portfolio identified above also implies an optimal borrowing policy as to the maturity mix of the government bond issuance. [H6, G1, F3]

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  • Joon-Ho Hahm & Jinho Kim, 2001. "Cost-At-Risk And Benchmark Government Debt Portfolio In Korea," International Economic Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 79-103.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:intecj:v:17:y:2001:i:2:p:79-103
    DOI: 10.1080/10168730300080014
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