• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.237-247
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• 2022

This study predicts the economic activity level of the elderly in Korea using various machine learning methods. While the previous studies mainly focused on testing the relationship between the economic activity level and the life satisfaction or the social security system, this study aims at the accurate prediction on the economic activity level of the elderly using various machine learning methods and the forecast combination. Dependent variables such as the activity rate, employment rate, etc and independent variables such as the income, average wage, etc compose the dataset in this study. Five different machine learning methods and two forecast combinations are applied to the given dataset. The prediction performances of the machine learning method and the forecast combination varied across the dependent variables and prediction intervals, but it was found that the forecast combination was relatively superior to other methods in terms of the stability of prediction. This study has significance in that it accurately predicted the economic activity level of the elderly and achieved the stability of the prediction, raising practicality from a policy perspective.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.397-404
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• 1999

1997년말 발생한 외환위기 이후 불확실성의 증대로 시계열모형을 이용한 경제예측에 한계가 노정되고 있다. 이를 극복하기 위하여 경제주체의 기대(expectation)를 파악할수 있는 기업경기실사지수를 경제예측에 도입할 필요가 있다. 본고에서는 기업경기실사지수를 이용한 모형과 시계열모형을 추정하고 이들을 예측력 측면에서 비교, 분석해보았다. 분석결과 불확실성이 높았던 외환위기이후 기간에는 기업경기실사지수를 이용한 모형이 시계열모형보다 예측력면에서 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.562-563
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• 2008

경쟁적 전력시장에서는 이익주체의 다양화로 송전망확장은 개별 시장참여자의 경제적 편익에 큰 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 송전설비 투자계획은 미래 전력 시장 및 계통의 예측을 바탕으로 하기 때문에 예측의 불확실성에서 발생하는 설비투자의 과잉.과소투자의 최소화 방안이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문은 송전망확장사업의 경제적 가치를 평가하는 방법에 대해 연구였고 미래 시장 및 계통의 불확실성을 반영하기 위해 전력수요와 연료가격의 과거 예측오차의 표준편차를 이용한 예측값의 확률밀도함수의 모델링 방법을 이용한 송전망확장의 경제성 평가 방법을 제시한다. Monte Carlo Sampling을 이용, 송전망확장으로 인한 시장참여자의 경제적 편익 변화의 기대값과 편익 변화의 범위를 산출함으로써 설비투자의 리스크와 잠재효과에 대해 분석한다.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• v.10
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• pp.158-163
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• 1981

미래를 알고자하는 인간의 욕망은 항상 존재하고 있다. 이러한 욕망을 예전에는 예언가들이 충족시켰으나 지금에는 과학자들에 의하여 많이 행하여지고 있다. 특히 미래의 경제적 현상에 대한 정확한 지식에 관한 욕망은 보다 크다. 사회현상의 예측 가능성에 대한 의견은 일치하고 있지 않다. 예를 들면 유명한 경제학자인 Hayek (1974)는 사회현상은 자연현상과는 달라 그 복잡성 때문에 예측이 불가능하다고 주장한다. 물론 사회적 경제적 현상의 예측은 여러점으로 보아 어려운 것은 사실이나 불가능하다고 볼수는 없으며, 어려우나 예측이 필요하므로 가능한한 정확한 예측을 하도록 노력해야 한다. 본 논고를 통하여 경제현상의 예측방법 특히 장기예측 방법과 그 문제점들을 간단히 다루려 한다. 장기예측은 가장 쉽고도 가장 어려운 예측이다. 10년내지 20년후의 현상에 관한 예측은 그 진위성이 쉽게 판단이 될 수 없으므로 누구나 할 수 있는 예측이다. 반면에 10년후의 현상에 관하여 예측을 한다는 것은 다른 예측보다도 어려운 것이 사실이다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.509-523
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• 2024

This study estimates connectedness index among the US, China, Europe, Japan, and South Korea using monthly economic policy uncertainty (EPU) data from January 2000 to December 2023. The connectedness index allows us to analyze the effect of global economic uncertainty on domestic economic uncertainty. The EPU is used as a proxy for economic uncertainty. Inter-country connectedness index is computed from variance decomposition. The findings from forecast error variance decomposition show that three-fourths of total uncertainty comes from economic uncertainty in the own country and one-fourth of total uncertainty comes from economic uncertainty in the others. The analysis on net pairwise connectedness reveals that, even though the extent of the effect of economic uncertainty in one country from economic uncertainty in another country varies over time, economic uncertainty in South Korea, a small-open economy, is mainly affected by economic uncertainty in the others. The reverse situation rarely happens except in the specific occurrence such as the collapse of the credit bubble in 2003 and the subsequent years, the inter-Korean summit and North Korea-the US summit in 2018, and the period from the first outbreak of COVID-19 on the implementation of the government's severe regulation against COVID-19.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.947-980
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• 2012

This study analyzes the long-run impacts of climate change on Korean agriculture and economy. We estimate the impacts of climate change on the productivities of major agricultural products including rice, dairy and livestock using both a simulation approach and a semiparametric econometric model. The former predicts a decline in productivity while the latter predicts an increase in productivity due to climate change, especially for rice. A recursive dynamic CGE model is used to analyze the general equilibrium impacts of productivity change under the two different scenarios, derived from the two productivity analysis approaches. The loss of GDP in 2050 is 0.2% or 0.02% of total GDP depending on the scenario. It is shown that the losses in dairy and livestock sectors are larger than that in rice sector, although the losses in those two non-rice sectors have been ignored by most existing works.

• Nuclear industry
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• v.8 no.9 s.67
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• pp.74-77
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• 1988

일본 원자력발전의 경제성은 앞으로 장기에 걸쳐 확보된다. 일본에너지경제연구소는 최근 일본원자력발전의 경제성 비교에 관한 조사보고서를 작성하여 원자력위원회에 제출했다. 다음은 동 보고서의 내용을 요약 정리한 것이다.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.152-163
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• 2013

In this research, we analyse the economic feasibility of a tidal power plant project which can efficiently generate mass, permanent, predictable, and homogeneous electric power. For the economic feasibility analysis, we used the RETScreen that is developed at the CANMET Energy Technology Center in Natural Resources Canada and widely utilized for analysing the economic feasibility and sensitivity of clean energy projects. Results from the feasibility and sensitivity analysis showd that the tidal power plant project in Korea has a enough economic feasibility, and its feasibility increases more as certified emission reductions price and electricity unit price increase. Based on the results from the feasibility study, we can solve the energy problems to be come in near future by constructing the tidal power plants in Korea more aggressively.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.419-442
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• 2020

The majority of the natural gas demand in South Korea is mainly determined by the heating demand. Accordingly, there is a distinct seasonality in which the gas demand increases in winter and decreases in summer. Moreover, the degree of sensitiveness to temperature on gas demand has changed over time. This study firstly introduces changing temperature response function (TRF) to capture effects of changing seasonality. The temperature effect (TE), estimated by integrating temperature response function with daily temperature density, represents for the amount of gas demand change due to variation of temperature distribution. Also, this study presents an innovative way in forecasting daily temperature density by employing functional principal component analysis based on daily max/min temperature forecasts for the five big cities in Korea. The forecast errors of the temperature density and gas demand are decreased by 50% and 80% respectively if we use the proposed forecasted density rather than the average daily temperature density.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.895-902
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• 2011

This paper is mainly concerned about providing confidence prediction interval for exchange rate during economic crisis. Our proposed method is to use block bootstrap method for prediction interval for next day. It is shown that block bootstrap method is particularly effective for interval prediction of exchange rate during economic crisis.