• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.177-196
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• 2007

This paper investigates the cyclical patterns of buffer capital using an unbalanced panel data for the banks in 30 OECD countries and 7 non-OECD Asian countries. We test whether the relationships between buffer capital and business cycle are systematically different across country groups controlling for other potential determinants of bank capital. We find that the correlation is positive for developed countries while it is negative for Asian developing countries. These findings suggest that, once Basel II is implemented, developing countries are more likely to observe an increase in output volatility. We then review the policy recommendations to mitigate the procyclicality problem of Basel II.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.512-534
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• 2016

This paper is to see what appears to be an economic crisis as urban crisis, to explore its emerging process and its major distinctive figures in the context of S. Korea, and to consider alternatives to overcome such an urban crisis. For this purpose, it first tries to show that the capitalist economic development (i.e. capital accumulation) has been stimulated and driven largely by extending investments into built environments. Then it analyzes how crises of overaccumulation, coupled with other crises such as the IMF crisis in 1997 and the financial crisis in 2008 which have been brought about by serious impacts of foreign financial capitals working on the global level, have led to accumulating of huge surplus reserves within both big companies and the central government on the one hand, increasing tremendously debts of households as well as government and private companies on the other. In particular, the debt crisis seems to be accelerated by fictitious capital generated through government's financial strategies to promote both supplies and demands in housing and property markets. There seem several ways of overcoming the urban crisis spiraled around accumulating surplus capital and increasing financial debt; raising real income, moderating investments into built environment, and increasing inputs into the fields of technology and well-being. In order to open up these ways, it is concluded, recent urban movements in terms of the right to the city are required not only to make the government and capital to do so, but also to realize interest of urban people who have produced such surplus but who are suffering from the debt crisis.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.59-83
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• 2007

In this paper, we test empirically free cash flows hypothesis about stock repurchase. The main results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, repurchasing firms do not experience a growth in profitability relative to their peer firms. Second, repurchasing firms experience a contraction in their investment opportunity, and so capital expenditures and cash reserves decline after the repurchase. Third, repurchasing firms experience a decline in systematic risk and investments and in their cost of capital. Fourth, the reduction in profitability and cost of capital are sources of the positive market reaction to the repurchase announcement. And the market reaction to stock repurchase announcements is stronger among those firms that are more likely to overinvest. Conclusively, these results support free cash flows hypothesis. When firms experience a decline in profitability, capital expenditures and cash reserves, systematic risk and cost of capital, they decide to repurchase stocks to reduce free cash flows.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.89-97
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• 2014

With regard to conventional theory, the rate of profit is determined by the interaction between the rate of surplus value and the organic composition of capital. And it declines with the capitalistic development through intensifying the organic composition of capital. According to the empirical test, the rate of profit and the rate of surplus value have been decreased. On the contrary, the organic composition of capital have increased during the period under study. The empirical results of the rate of profit in Korean economy appears to hold the principle of the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. But the trend of the determinants is distinct from the conventional theory. Despite the distinctive empirical results, the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is realized in Korean economy in objective period of time.

• Venture DIGEST
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• s.137
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• pp.34-35
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• 2009

지난 11월 호에서는 성공적인 M&A를 위한 전략으로 3가지 방법을 제시했다. 기업을 양도하고자 한다면 기업의 가치가 훼손되기 전에 기업양도 전략을 수립하고 추진해야 성공 확률이 높아 제값을 받을 수 있고, $\blacktriangle$기업을 설립하고 자본을 투입할 때부터 그 투입자본과 잉여금을 언제 어떤 식으로 회수할 것인지를 생각하고 그에 부합되도록 경영전략을 실행해야 하며, $\blacktriangle$M&A는 고도의 전문적인 의사결정이므로 실패(Risk)를 줄이기 위해서는 반드시 M&A 전문가의 자문을 받아 실행하는 것이 바람직하다는 것이다. 이번 호에서는 위의 내용을 바탕으로 몇 건의 M&A사례를 분석하고 그 시사점을 알아보기로 한다.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.45-73
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• 2012

In this paper, we analyse empirically the effects of financial characteristics on the relationship between R&D investment and market value of firms listed on Korea Exchange. The main results of this study can be summarized as follows. Firm size increase the market valuation of R&D investment because it provides economies of scale, easier access to capital market, and R&D cost spreading. Market share also positively effects the relationship between R&D investment and firm value. Alternatively, free cash flow has a negative effect on the relationship between R&D investment and firm value because firms with high free cash flow could be tempted to use the free cash flow to undertake negative NPV projects. The dependence on external finance is a handicap negatively assessed by the market when firms undertake R&D projects due to the higher information asymmetry associated with this kind of project. Labor intensity has a negative effect on the relationship between R&D investment and firm value because the abnormal profits arising from R&D investment are diluted among employees. Capital intensity also has a negative effect on the relationship between R&D investment and firm value due to the greater financial constraints faced by capital intensive firms. In conclusion, several financial characteristics(firm size and market share) positively effect the relationship between R&D investment and firm value, while others(free cash flow, dependence on external finance, labor intensity, and capital intensity) exert a negative effect. Therefore, we conclude that the effectiveness of R&D investment depends on these financial characteristics.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.213-236
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• 1999

최근 우리 나라는 금융환경의 변화가 진전됨에 따라 보험산업에도 변화가 일어나기 시작했다. 이에 따라 보험산업은 지급능력 및 수익성에 관심을 갖게 되었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국내 생명보험회사의 투자수익율이 재무제표에 나타난 요인에 의해 어떻게 결정되는가를 살펴봄으로써 수익률 결정요인을 찾는데 있다. 본 연구에서 사용한 자료는 생명보험회사 33개사 중에서 외국사를 제외한 29개사를 선택하여 수집하였다. 분석 기간은 1989년부터 1996년까지이며, 생명보험회사는 기존사, 지방사, 내국사, 합작사로 구분하였다. 분석결과, 시차별 분석에서는 결정계수가 기간이 짧을수록 높게 나타났고 예측된 부호는 잉여금, 사업비율이 반대로 나타났다. 그룹별 분석에서는 기존사, 내국사, 지방사, 합작사의 모델이 각각 유의수준 5%에서 유의하였고 결정계수는 높게 나타났다. 예측부호는 자산증가율과 사업비율, 수입보험료 증가율(기존사 제외), 부채/자본비율(기존사 제외)이 일치하지 않았다. 경영평가제도에 의한 분석에서는 결정계수가 높은 편이며, 유의수준 5%에서 유의하였다. 자본증가율은 예측된 부호와 일치하나 영향력이 거의 없는 것으로 나타났다. 유동성 비율은 신설사(내국사, 지방사, 합작사)가 예측부호와 반대의 경우로 나타났다. 또한 총자산은 투자수익율과 규모에 의해 결정되지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 모집인은 투자수익율에 유의적이나 직접적인 투자요인이 아닌 것으로 분석되었다. 기존연구와 비교해 볼 때, 한국 생명보험회사의 잉여금과 효력상실 해약율은 기존연구 모형과 예측부호가 일치하나 나머지 변수는 그룹간 다소 상이하게 나타났다. 결론적으로 본 연구의 분석 결과, 예측부호는 다소 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났고, 유의적인 변수는 없는 것으로 분석된다.

• Journal of Korean Philosophical Society
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• v.146
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• pp.115-135
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• 2018

This article attempts to deal with the problem that science and technology function as a mechanism to oppress and exploit humans rather than to release humans from labor. To explore this subject, it is necessary to consider the difference between the theory of labor value and the theory of 'technology value'. In addition, it is also important to refer to Marx's critical view of the 'capitalist' use of technology. Above all, Marx' concepts of relative surplus value and special surplus value, and his analysis of organic composition of capital are still valid in explaining that development of technology tightens control over workers and intensity of labor, and worsens instability of employment. Reflection of the limitations of capitalist development of technology is also important for realization of its usefulness. Industry 4.0 in Germany therefore deserves to be noticed as a good example because it shows a different way from extreme capitalist exploitation. The model suggests also some points that shouldn't be overlooked, when we try to actualize the tremendous slogan of the current fourth industrial revolution as real innovation and progress in human life. In this matter, the most important point is the possibility of technological development that doesn't oppose workers' interests.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.143-169
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• 2017

This paper empirically examines how capital structure inertia varies across industries and there is different in industries, and whether this fact is explained by product market competition using non-financial firms listed in KOSP market over periods of 1981 to 2015. In empirical test, I find that firms with more competition environment tend to have inertia behavior in making decision of capital structure. This implies that it is explained by debt discipline effect and it is substitution for product market competitions. Also I find that manager tends to take action actively making decision of capital structure when product market competition is low. Also I show that they use debt to constraint the free cash flow. As a result, I conclude that Korean non-financial firms do not have more strong inertia behavior in capital structure rather than U.S. firms. Second, using OLS estimation, inertia effect disappears while there is strong inertia effect in relationship between inertia and product market competition. This result suggests that transaction cost is not key factor in explaining inertia behavior of capital structure.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.117-128
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• 2013

This study aims to examine various discourses of the urban landscape discussed in the fields of new cultural geography, spatial political economy, and landscape architecture in order to propose a theoretical framework for the interpretation of a contemporary urban landscape. The notion of landscape is a modern idea that separates humans, especially the bourgeois subject, from nature, and then achieves the visual possession of nature. New cultural geographers have studied the political aspects of landscape. According to them, landscape as materialized discourse is "a way of seeing" which includes the vision of the upper class, the imperialistic view, and the masculine and voyeuristic gaze. In addition, spatial political economists have paid attention to the economic aspects of landscape. They have emphasized that the material production of landscape is indispensable in the production of surplus values in the capitalistic system. Thus, we insist focusing dialectically on both the materiality and ideology of landscape.