• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.215-250
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• 2013

The term, "resource curse", is widely used to describe how countries rich in natural resources, such as oil, natural gas, and certain minerals, are unable to utilize that wealth to boost their economies. Contrary to previous research on the topic, this study has demonstrated that natural resources have a strong positive correlation with a country's economy. It likewise confirmed that this result is robust with broad sets of exogenous variables, and that the positive impact of natural resources on the economy remains significant with the inclusion of capital stock per worker. In this sense, it is doubtful that resource curse actually exists in the long-run. On the other hand, this study tested whether the quality of institutions has any relation with natural resource endowments if the positive effect of natural resource endowments on the gross domestic product (GDP) is adequately controlled for. In contrast to findings of Alexeev and Conrad (2009), if the former Soviet Union (FSU) countries are included, it seems that there might be a negative and statistically significant relationship between large endowments of natural resources and the quality of institutions. However, this negative relationship loses its significance and some positive albeit insignificant relationships are confirmed in a considerable number of cases when the FSU countries are excluded in the sample. That is, the negative relationship results from the inclusion of the FSU countries. This result is believed to happen by a temporary coincidence of events, a natural resource windfall and political and economic instability during the transition of the FSU countries. Therefore, the argument that resource abundance harms the institutional quality is confirmed to be a little groundless.

• Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.173-175
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• 2002

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.143-150
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• 1990

A cooperative Korea-Japan investigation for the demersal fisheries resources of the East China Sea was carried out by using the training ship Oshoro Maru belong to Hokkaido University Japan, during 5-12 November, 1989. The research vessel sampled 24 stations with demersal trawls on the East China Sea continental shelf, and 96 nautical miles of track line were surveyed hydroacoustically. The echo sounder used during the survey was of a scientific type having echo integration capabilities and the computer system was programmed to obtain echo integration data for each depth stratum between the transducer and the bottom. The target strength of fish school(TS per 1kg) was estimated from the relationship between mean volume backscattering strength and catches caught by the demersal trawls. The results obtained can be summarized as follows: 1. Approximately 96 species were identified from survey catches. 2. The mean volume backscattering strength for the layer occupied by bottom trawls at 25 and 100 KHz were-63.9 dB and -67.3 dB, respectively. Then the average catch per unit time of each trawl haul was 58.8 kg/hour. 3. The mean volume backscattering strength for the entire layer between the transducer and the bottom at 25 and 100KHz were -61.9 dB and -67.0 dB, respectively. 4. The mean fish school target strength per unit weight(TS/kg) at 25 and 100 KHz were -23.6 dB/kg and -26.6 dB/kg, respectively.

• The Korean Journal of Petroleum Geology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.14-19
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• 2006

The electromagnetic (light) waves have a limitation to penetrate media, ie, water and sea-bottom layers, due to high energy attenuation, but acoustic (sound) waves play as the good messenger to gather the underwater target information. Therefore, the acoustic methods are applied to almost all of ocean equipments and technology in terms of in-water and sub-bottom surveys. Generally the sound character is controlled by its frequency. In case that the sound source is low frequency, the penetration is high and the resolution is low. On the other hand, its character is reversed at the high frequency. The common character at the both of light and sound is the energy damping according to the travel distance increase.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.247-260
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• 1987

As a part of study on the structure of the Yangsan Fault, geological and VLF EM studies have been made in the fault area approximately between Kyeongju and Eonyang. The result provides comparatively clear information on the trace of the fault and extent of fracture zone as well as the structural characteristics of the Yangsan Fault area. The location of fault trace identified from this VLF EM study coincides well in general with that expected from geological information of the area. And the extent of fault fracture zone turn out to be characterized by U shaped low resistivity zone whose width increases from north to south.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.640-656
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• 2005

A chronic depression in the Korean economy, which depends mostly on imported oil, has been attributed partly to rising crude oil prices recently. Against the backdrop of these realities in Korea, Azerbaijan in the Caspian region, with vast oil and gas deposits, has been greeted enviously by some Koreans. Many transition economies, especially on the Caspian region trumpeted by the oil boom, however, are rich in natural resources, but the benefits of those resources are appropriated by the local elite in collusion with foreign companies. Azerbaijan, in particular, is dominated by a series of internal and external patronage networks. Foreign capital nourishes those networks surrounding President Aliev. Thus, the case of Azerbaijan shows that resource rents in the transition economies sometimes do not help in improving the living conditions of ordinary people. Rather rich resource rents turn out to be a major impediment to the emerging development of the transition economy, lessening the incentives to reform in the country. The result was the possibility of the so-called Dutch Disease, in which disproportionate growth in a certain energy sector tends to crowd out investment in other sectors of the economy.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.626-629
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• 2005

새로운 에너지 자원으로 활용 가능성을 포함하고 있는 가스 하이드레이트를 조사하기 위해 한국지질자원연구원에서는 동해일원에서 탄성파탐사를 실시하고 있다. 탄성파 반사자료로부터 가스 하이드레이트 부존여부를 확인하는 방법은 해저면과 평행하면서 위상이 반대로 나타나는 고진폭 반사파 BSR (Bottom Simulating Reflect ion)과 BSR 상부에서의 진폭감소, 하부에서 진폭증가와 구간속도 감소 등을 들 수 있다. 그러나 고진폭 반사파는 free gas 또는 실리카를 포함하는 퇴적층에서도 발생하므로 이를 구별할 수 있는 방법이 필요하다. 여기에서는 가스 하이드레이트 탐사자료에 대한 일반자료처리와 함께 가스층 존재 유무를 확인하는 방법으로 많이 이용되는 탄성파 복소분석법을 적응하였다. 가스 하이드레이트 부존 유망지역에 대해 순간진폭, 순간진폭에 대한 1차, 2차 미분, 순간위상, 순간주파수 단면도를 제작하여 중합단면도와 비교하였으며 그 결과 순간진폭단면도의 경우 강한 BSR이 나타나는 지층경계면에서 순간진폭변화 차이를 강하게 보였으며, 순간주파수 단면도의 경우 BSR지역에서 고주파에서 저주파수로 변화함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.23-43
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• 2010

This article compares two different auction designs for $CO_2$ emission allowances, namely uniform pricing and multiple pricing, in view of market efficiency. Experimental economic method of Buckley et al. (2004) is applied in this analysis. As a result of this analysis as expected, multiple pricing method brings out Winner's curse. It means that uniform pricing method is more efficient than multiple pricing method.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.481-485
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• 1995

This paper presents a new approaching method to determine the velocity and geometry of shallow subsurface from seismic refraction events. After picking the first breaks from seismic refraction data, we assume that field refraction seismogram can be replaced by the unit delta function having time shift of first break. Time curves are generated by shooting ray tracing. The partial derivatives seismogram for a damped least squares method is computed analytically at each step of the forward ray tracing. The technique is successfully tested on synthetic and real data. It has the advantage of real full waveform inversion, which is robust at low frequency band even if the initial guess is far from the true model.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.560-563
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• 2007

속도와 밀도의 함수로 이루어진 음향 임피던스는 탄성파자로부터 물성변화를 확인하는 방법 중의 하나로 이용된다. 본 연구에서는 한국지질자원연구원에서 개발된 탄성파 탐사자료처리 무른모 지오빗올 이용하여 기본 자료처리를 실시하고, 음향 임피던스 변환 모듈올 적용하여 동해 가스 하이드레이트 현장자료에 대한 광역 임피던스변화를 구하고 이로부터 음향 임피던스 단면도를 구하고자였다. 음향 임피던스 단면도는 중합단면도상에서 음향 임피던스 변화를 보여주고 있으며 특히 왕복주시 2.9초 전후에서 해저면 반사파와 위상이 반대이며 고진폭을 나타내는 해저면 기인 고진폭 반사층으로 여길만한 지점에서 그 변화가 크게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 탄생파자료는 10 Hz 이하 저주파 정보가 들어있지 않아 완전한 음향 임피던스를 구할 수 없으므로 층서해석이 이루어진 중합 단면도부터 광역 임피던스를 구하였다. 향후 시추자료를 활용할 경우 좀더 정확한 음향 임피던스 단면도를 생산할 수 있을 것으로 여겨진다.