• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.287-288
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• 2019

항만공사의 운영 효율성과 자율성을 강화를 통해 국가 및 지역발전 기여 요구가 꾸준히 제기되고 있다. 이 연구는 선진 항만공사 도델(미국 PANYNJ, 싱가포르 PSA)을 살펴보고, 국내 항만관련법령 상의 항만공사의 역할과 한계를 분석하였다. 이를 통해 항만공사의 자율성을 강화하고, 글로벌 항만기업으로 육성하기 위한 제도개선 및 정책제언을 위한 기초연구의 토대를 제공코자 한다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.743-756
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• 2009

This paper tries to analyze how the governance institutions of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey overcome agent problems in public agencies based on the Principal-Agent Theory, and find the implications that will be helpful to the governance of port authorities in Korea. The Port Authority's governance is characterized by decentralization of personnel rights, open meetings policy, freedom of information policy, public hearings, and fiscally self-supporting system. Those characteristics are helpful in overcoming the agent problems of public agency, such as adverse selection, moral hazard, and complicated external structure, through reinforcing of monitoring agent by principal, easing of information asymmetry between principal and agent, and clarification of organizational ownership structure. Those characteristics may give many implications for the design of governance structures of port authorities in Korea.