• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.1-23
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• 2010

Extension of mandatory retirement age (MRA) differs from other labor supply increases in that it induces a change in the incentive to save for retirement. A simple general equilibrium model indicates that extension of MRA can lead to a decrease in life-time income and social welfare as it excessively discourages domestic savings and thus capital accumulation. However, in an open economy where capital inflow allows capital input in production to remain constant despite lower domestic capital stock, extension of MRA likely increases worker welfare. In such case, extension of MRA can contribute to expansion of hiring demands through lowering wages or mitigating upward pressures on wages.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.3-26
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• 1988

본(本) 연구(硏究)의 목적(目的)은 우리나라의 1963~86년도 자료를 사용하여 소비(消費) 및 가계저축함수(家計貯蓄函數)를 추정함으로써 가계(家計), 기업(企業), 정부저축(政府貯蓄) 등 세 부문의 저축(貯蓄) 사이에 어떠한 관계, 즉 어느 정도의 대체관계(代替關係)가 있는가를 판별하고 정부저축(政府貯蓄)과 정부재정지출(政府財政支出) 등의 변수(變數)로 표시되는 재정정책(財政政策)의 구축효과(驅逐效果)와 이에 따른 재정정책(財政政策)의 유효성(有效性) 혹은 무력성(無力性) 문제(問題)를 분석하고자 함에 있다. 본(本) 연구(硏究)의 분석결과에 의하면 기업저축(企業貯蓄)과 정부저축(政府貯蓄)은 가계저축(家計貯蓄)과 대체관계(代替關係)가 아닌 보완관계(補完關係)를 갖는 것으로 나타난다. 이는 일국전체(一國全體)의 자본형성(資本形成)에 있어서 기업(企業) 및 정부저축(政府貯蓄)이 매우 중요한 정책변수(政策變數)임을 시사하는 것으로 가계저축율(家計貯蓄率), 나아가 국내저축율(國內貯蓄率)의 제고(提高) 및 유지(維持)를 위해 기업저축증대(企業貯蓄增大)를 위한 제반유인정책(諸般誘因政策)을 꾸준히 강화하고 정부저축증대(政府貯蓄增大)를 위한 효율적이고 건전한 재정운용(財政運用)이 지속되어야 할 것이다. 한편 정부재정지출(政府財政支出)은 적자(赤字)에 의하는 조세(租稅)에 의하든 민간소비(民間消費)를 큰 폭으로 증가시키는 것으로 나타나 가계(家計)의 초합리성가설(初合理性假說)이나 완전(完全)한 선견가설(先見假說)이 상정하는 바와 같이 재정정책(財政政策)의 완전(完全)한 구축효과(驅逐效果)가 나타남에 따른 재정정책(財政政策)의 무력성(無力性) 결과(結果)와 대조적으로 우리나라의 재정정책(財政政策)이 그동안 경제안정(經濟安定)을 위한 강력한 정책수단(政策手段)으로서의 역할을 수행해 왔음을 보여주고 있다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.277-282
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• 2019

This study analyzed the determinants of the financial Soundness of savings banks. In particular, empirical analysis was carried out on how the loan deposit ratio correlates with financial soundness after restructuring. As the restructuring of savings banks was finalized in 2014, asset management changed and it is time to analyze the financial characteristics of savings banks. In summary, the relationship between the savings bank lending rate and the NPL ratio is estimated to have a negative value at the 1% significance level. In other words, the higher the mortgage rate, the lower the substandard and below ratio. It can be said that it is not easy for a savings bank to build an aggressive loan portfolio. In other words, the more difficult it is to finance loans through savings deposits, the more likely the risk aversion tends to be. The higher the corporate loan ratio, average interest expense, and economic growth rate, the higher the risk index. The larger the asset size and the higher the loan growth rate, the lower the risk index. Increasing the mortgage rate may reduce risk-seeking behavior, but it does not mean that it is unconditionally positive for savings banks. Therefore, the loan deposit rate regulation should reduce the incentives for excessive asset expansion and manage preemptive soundness through lending portfolio management.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.277-293
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• 2015

Mutual Savings Banks generally have weaker governance structure than other financial institutions, so the possibility of earnings management by owner-largest or managements of mutual savings banks is higher than other financial institutions. This study examines the relationship between corporate governance and quality of internal control of financial reporting. If the expropriation of minority shareholder hypothesis holds, we predict that the larger block shareholder in mutual savings banks, the weaker the internal control system by more likely the opportunistic earnings management by bank managers. On the other hand, under the convergence of interest hypothesis, we predict that the larger block shareholder in mutual savings banks, the stronger the internal control system by reduction in agency costs as owner-manager's holdings increases, and there a negative relationship is expected between internal control weakness and the holdings of the owner-largest shareholder. We find that mutual savings banks with higher owner-largest shareholder equity has significant positive relations with their internal control of financial reporting material weakness. This result suggests that the greater owner-largest shareholder equity, the more likely the opportunistic earnings management, so that decrease quality of internal control. This paper extends the literature on financial institutions corporate governance to verify whether governance system, especially, owner-largest and quality of internal control has significant positive relations.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.77-105
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• 2004

Given the limitations of UI benefit and self-insurance through precautionary savings, this paper suggests a new scheme of income support for the unemployed, which offers unemployed workers not only UI benefit but also borrowings from their future pension incomes. Allowing individuals to have effective self-insurance through pension- borrowing, this scheme provides them with consumption-smoothing and reduction in risk burden while maintaining search incentives of the unemployed. Simulation study based upon household panel data in Korea suggests that a heavy reliance should be set upon self-insurance through pension-borrowings rather than upon UI benefit, even for the low-income individuals who are subsidized under UI system. This result provides us with insightful implications for a social safety net in (fast-growing) developing countries, where people cannot afford a good amount of UI benefit or of precautionary savings against unemployment although they expect their incomes to be much higher in the future. Indeed, it is consumption-smoothing effect of self-insurance through pension- borrowings, as well as its incentive-maintaining effect, that makes it a promising alternative of social safety net in developing countries.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.87-116
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• 1993

전세제도(傳貰制度)는 공공임대주택(公共賃貸住宅)이 존재하지 않고 제도금융권의 주택금융이 미약한 상황에서 유지되어 온 우리나라 특유의 주거점유형태(住居占有形態)이다. 그러나 불완전한 우리의 주택시장 여건하에서 전세임대차(傳貰賃貸借)에 따르는 위험부담이 임차자(賃借者)에게 전가되는 등 불필요한 사회적 비용을 초래하고 있다. 따라서 현존의 전세제도(傳貰制度)를 개선하기 위하여 공공임대주택(公共賃貸住宅)을 늘리고 월세전환(月貰轉換)으로의 유인책을 제공하여야 한다. 아울러 20조(兆)원이 넘는 전세보증금(傳貰保證金)을 주택부문 자금으로 쓸 수 있도록 전세기금(傳貰基金)을 설치하는 등 전세제도(傳貰制度)를 개선하여야 한다. 종국적으로 전세제도(傳貰制度)가 사라지더라도 사회 일각에서 우려하는 저축감소효과는 거의 없을 것이다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.107-126
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• 1995

본(本) 연구(硏究)는 자본거래자유화정도를 명목상의 규제완화여부에 의해 판별하는 종래의 접근방법(接近方法)에서 벗어나, 형식적(形式的) 규제여부(規制與否)에 관계없이 자본거래(資本去來)가 실질적으로 경제적(經濟的) 유인(誘引)에 따라 얼마나 활발하게 이루어지고 있는가를 측정함으로써 자본거래자유화정도(資本去來自由化程度)를 평가할 수 있는 방법을 모색하고 있다. 이와 관련해서 본 연구는 모두 5가지 접근방법을 시도하고 있다. 그 첫째는, 총대외무역량대비 자본거래량비중으로서 자본거래량이 상대적으로 증가하면 자본거래자유화정도가 높다고 본다. 둘째는, 환율절하기대를 감안한 국내외실질 금리차로서 대내외자본거래(對內外資本去來)가 자유로울수록 국내외금리차(國內外金利差)는 낮아질 것이기 때문에, 동 금리차가 낮을수록 자본자유화정도가 높다고 본다. 동 지수로서는 통화선물시장의 존재 여부에 따라 위험포함 및 불포함 대내외금리차를 사용할 수 있다. 셋째로는, 다소 복잡한 계량경제학적 방법을 통해 국내외실질금리간의 연계관계를 측정하는 방법으로서 두번째 방법의 개선에 해당된다. 그리고 넷째로는, 셋째번 방법에 의한 연계관계를 시간변동지수로 전환하여, 시간의 경과에 따른 자본자유화정도의 변화를 측정하고 있다. 마지막으로는, 자본거래를 위험자산의 국제교역관계(國際交易關係)로 파악하여, 무역에 있어서의 산업내교역지수측정방법을 자본거래에 적용하여 자본거래총유출입지수를 측정하였다. 동 지수는 저축투자갭의 보정적(補正的) 거래차원을 넘어 위험자산거래 자체를 위한 자본거래의 정도를 측정함으로써 순수하게 자본거래 자체의 메커니즘에 의해 자생적으로 일어나는 자본거래의 활성화정도에 대한 척도가 될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 이상의 방법들을 주로 한국(韓國), 일본(日本), 대만(臺灣) 등에 적용해서 평가한 결과 한국의 자본거래자유화정도(資本去來自由化程度)는 일본에 비해서는 낮지만 대만에 비해서는 높으며, 특히 90년대 들어 크게 향상된 것으로 평가되었다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.131-169
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• 2010

I develop a matching model in which risk-averse workers face borrowing constraints and make a labor force participation decision as well as a job search decision. A sharp distinction between unemployment and out of the labor force is made: those who look for work for a certain period but find no job are classified as the unemployed and those who do not look for work are classified as those out of the labor force. In the model, the job search decision consists of two steps. First, each individual who is not working obtains information about employment opportunities. Second, each individual who decides to search has to take costly actions to find a job. Since individuals differ with respect to asset holdings, they have different reservation job-finding probabilities at which an individual is indifferent between searching and not searching. Individuals, who have large asset holdings and thereby are less likely to participate in the labor market, have high reservation job-finding probability, and they are less likely to search if they have less quality of information. In other words, if individuals with large asset holdings search for job, they must have very high quality of information and face very high actual job-finding probability. On the other hand, individuals with small asset holdings have low reservation job-finding probability and they are likely to search for less quality of information. They face very low actual job-finding probability and seem to remain unemployed for a long time. Therefore, differences in the quality of information explain heterogeneous job search decisions among individuals as well as higher job finding probability for those who reenter the labor market than for those who remain in the labor force. The effect of the extended maximum duration of unemployment insurance benefits on the aggregate labor market and the labor market flows is investigated. The benchmark benefit duration is set to three months. As maximum benefit duration is extended up to six months, the employment-population ratio decreases while the unemployment rate increases because individuals who are eligible for benefits have strong incentives to remain unemployed and decide to search even if they obtain less quality of information, which leads to low job-finding probability and then high unemployment rate. Then, the vacancy-unemployment ratio decreases and, in turn, the job-finding probability for both the unemployed and those out of the labor force decrease. Finally, the outflow from nonparticipation decreases with benefit duration because the equilibrium job-finding probability decreases. As the job-finding probability decreases, those who are out of the labor force are less likely to search for the same quality of information. I also consider the matching model with two states of employment and unemployment. Compared to the results of the two-state model, the simulated effects of changes in benefit duration on the aggregate labor market and the labor market flows are quite large and significant.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.591-642
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• 2006

This paper intends to analyze economic impacts of commitment period and initial allocation in emissions trading using computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling. The fully dynamic CGE model with perfect foresight assumption is employed to illustrate (i) how a model displays economic impact of $CO_2$ regulation upon different commitment periods: one-year budget clearing vs. 5-year commitment period, (ii) how major 8 energy-intensive industries respond to different ways to allocate initial allowances. According to the results of the analysis, it IS found that market players are motivated to bank the permits and tend to sell permits in earlier stage and to buy permits in later stage of commitment period. This implies that banking allows permit trading within a commitment period, which supports the conclusions of Kling and Rubin (1997). Other findings are related to efficiency. That is, emissions trading surpasses command and control, in terms of economic efficiency and longer terms of commitment period converge on lower permit price, In long term, initial allocation based on value-added performs the lowest GDP loss among different initial allocations.