• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.444-453
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• 2018

The study addresses the analysis on the financial determinants of corporate research and development (R&D) expenditure in finance. Overall level of R&D spending was estimated as one of the top-tier on a global basis and a majority of the expenditure was invested by large domestic firms in private sector. Consequently, financial factors that influence R&D intensity were empirically tested in the first hypothesis by using conditional quantile regression model for firms listed in KOSPI stock market in the post-era of the global financial turmoil. Firms in the groups of high- and low-R&D intensity were statistically compared to detect financial differences in the second hypothesis which was accompanied by the test of multi-logit model that included firms without R&D outlay. Concerning the results of the hypothesis tests, R&D spending of the prior fiscal year, firm size, business risk and advertising expense overall showed statistically significant impacts to determine the level. As an extended study of [1] that had examined financial factors of R&D intensity at the macro-level, the results of the present study are anticipated to contribute to maximizing shareholders' wealth in advance or emerging capital markets, when applied to find an optimal level of R&D expenditure.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.174-182
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• 2018

Given the ongoing debate in many aspects of finance, more attention may need to focus on corporate R&D expenditures. This study empirically tests financial determinants of R&D expenditures for NYSE-listed and KOSPI-listed firms. Three major hypotheses were postulated to test for corporate R&D outlay. First, proposed variables such as one-year lagged R&D expenditures, market value based leverage, profitability and cash holdings showed significant influence on corporate R&D costs for the sample firms. Moreover, financial factors inclusive of squared one-year lagged R&D expenditures, the interaction effect between one-lagged R&D expenditures and high-growth firm, non-debt tax shield, Tobin's q and a dummy variable to explain differences in accounting treatment between the U.S. and Korea, revealed significant differences between the two samples. Finally, in the conditional quantile regression (CQR) analysis for the R&D-related variables in relation to corporate growth rate, it was found that the NYSE-listed firms had a statistically significant linkage between growth potential and one-year lagged R&D expenditures at lower quantile levels. This study may shed new light on identifying financial factors affecting differences between the U.S. market (as an advanced market) and the Korean market (as an emerging market) regarding the optimal level of R&D investments for shareholders.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.71-89
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• 2005

The purpose of this research is to examine X-efficiency of Korean local credit unions in 2001 by employing the stochastic frontier approach. This study uses the intermediation approach in order to define outputs and inputs of the credit unions. We define the outputs as the amounts of loans, and securities. The inputs are labor, deposit and physical capital. The price of labor is estimated by dividing the total wages by the number of employees. The price of deposit equals total interest divided by total deposit, and the price of physical capital is also computed to divide the total sales and administrative expenses by the physical capital. By the result of this study, the average efficiency score is 0.81. This fact indicates that credit unions can reduce their inputs by 19% for the given outputs. If results are arranged into quartiles based on the efficiency, inefficiency of top 25% credit unions is below 9%, and half of them is over 17%. In addition, e result shows that the efficiency is significantly influenced by region and size even if credit unions in Seoul and Daegu showed little difference in efficiency by size. Generally, medium size credit unions are more efficient than large size.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.263-297
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• 1998

본 연구의 목적은 일괄매매와 접속매매에서의 주가변동의 행태를 이론적으로 구명하고, 이를 바탕으로 우리나라 종합주가지수를 이용하여 일중 주가지수수익률분산을 구하여 두 제도를 실증적으로 비교분석하는 데 있다. 정보거래자와 무정보거래자가 증권시장에 참여한다는 전제하에 일괄매매와 접속매매의 주가변동성을 유도하고, 양제도에서의 주가변동성을 이론적으로 비교 분석한 결과, 시점간 정보 거래자비율이나 혹은 거래자수가 일정할 경우, 접속매매의 가격변동성이 일괄매매의 가격변동성 보다 큰 것으로 분석된다. 그러나 매 시점마다 정보거래자비율과 거래자수가 일정하지 않을 경우에는 일괄매매의 주가변동성이 접속매매의 주가변동성 보다 더 큰 경우도 발생하지만, 시점1의 거래자비율이 $20%{\sim}80%$ 사이에서 변동할 경우에는 역시 접속매매가 일괄매매보다 주가변동성이 더 클 가능성은 크게 높아진다. 이 같은 이론연구를 바탕으로 노이즈제거전 10분간격 주가지수수익률분산을 살펴본 결과, 9시 41분이 가장 크고 폐장동시호가가 가장 작은 것으로 분석되었으며, 또한 전장에서는 작아지는 경향을 보이고 후장에서는 폭 넓은 U자 형태를 갖는 것으로 나타난다. 그리고 동시호가의 주가지수수익률분산은 개장동시호가가 가장 크고, 후장개장동시호가가 그 다음이며, 가장작은 것은 폐장동시호가인 것으로 분석된다. 폐장동시호가와 후장개장동시호가의 주가지수수익률분산이 대부분의 접속매매보다는 작으나, 노이즈제거후 주가지수수익률분산은 전장개장동시호가가 노이즈제거전과 마찬가지로 가장 컸지만, 폐장동시호가는 전장접속매매와 후장개시동시호가 보다 더 크게 나타났다. 이와 같이 전장개장동시호가의 주가지수수익률분산이 높은 것은 전일 15시부터 당일 9시 31분까지를 대상으로 주가지수수익률이 계산되어진 것과 긴 비거래시간 때문으로 해석할 수 있다. 그리고 폐장동시호가의 주가지수수익률분산이 접속매매 보다 큰 것은 본 연구모형에서 말하는 정보분산이 시점간에 같지 않고 폐장동시호가의 정보분산이 큰 데서 그 원인을 찾을 수 있다. 현재 우리나라에서는 매매제도가 주가변동에 미치는 영향에 대한 이론적 실증적 연구가 미진하고, 이에 대한 관심이 비교적 적다. 따라서 본 연구는 매매제도에 따른 주가변동성의 행태 뿐만 아니라 정보변동의 분산, 정보거래자의 정보해석노이즈, 무정보거래자의 유동성노이즈 등이 주가변동성에 미치는 영향에 대한 이해의 폭을 넓혀 줌으로써 증권시장의 효율성제고에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.103-138
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• 2009

In this article we examine a unique data set of intraday fair disclosure(FD) releases to shed light on market efficiency within the trading day. Specifically, this paper analyze the response of stock prices on fair disclosure disseminated in real-time through KIND(Korea Investor's Network for Disclosure) on Korea stock exchange during the period from January 2003 to September 2004. We find that the prices of stock experiences a statistically and economically significant increase beginning seconds after the fair disclosure is initially announced and lasting approximately two minutes. The stock price responds more strongly to fair disclosure on smaller firm but the response to fair disclosure on the largest firm stock is more gradual, lasting five minutes. We also examine the profitability of a short-term trading strategy based on dissemination of fair disclosure. After controlling for trading costs we find that trader who execute a trade following initial disclosure generate negative profits, but trader buying stock before initial disclosure realize statistically significant positive profit after two minute of disclosure. Summarizing overall results, our evidence supports that security prices on Korea stock exchange reflects all available information within two minutes and the Korea stock market is semi-strongly efficient enough that a trader cannot generate profits based on widely disseminated news unless he acts almost immediately.

• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.95-124
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• 2009

This study aims to introduce greenhouse gas emission trading in Korea as a highly cost-effective mechanism for controlling emissions. The Basic Act on Low-Carbon Green Growth will cover methods of emissions allocation, national inventory, and trading systems (i.e. emissions trading platforms, national registry,and clearing and settlement platforms). The Korean emission scheme will be based on the Korean Climate Change Act proposed by the National Assembly and Government with a cap-and-trade scheme. The national allowances will be allocated by the hybrid system. To establish the national inventory, TRADEMARKS (Telemetering System) and emissions factors are effective for greenhouse gas emissions measurement. It will likewise be effective for the national registry to be implemented via a Korean Integrated Registry, the emissions trading platform via the KRX (Korean Exchange), and the clearing and settlement platform via the KSD (Korean Securities Depository). In other words, the KRX will manage product development and marketing for Korean Carbon Financial Instruments (including commodities, futures, and options contracts) listed and admitted to trading on the KRX. All emissions trades will be standardized and cleared by the KSD.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.129-138
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• 2014

After global economic crisis, China has become one of the two pillars in the global economies and the country contributing to the Korean economy. Nevertheless, the research on Chinese financial market, particularly capital market, is rare to date. This study examined the growth enterprise market that emergedat the Shenzhen stock exchange and made comparative analysis on before and after listing for the Chinese small and medium sized firms and venture firms. The listing requirements at the Chinese growth enterprise market for the technologically innovative venture firms and fast-growing small and medium sized firms with financing purpose were more alleviated than the main board of Shenzhen stock exchange. Moreover, the listing procedures are simplified as well. Accordingly, many Chinese enterprises tend to list and the competition for listing is also intense. In particular, with the 36 initially listed firms at growth enterprise market as the research target, the investigation for the business performance before and after listing reveals that the three indexes including return on common equity, debt ratio and operating profit growth rate dropped dramatically for most all the firms. That is, the profitability and growth for the venture firms and small and medium sized firms listed on the Chinese growth enterprise market decreased rapidly after going public, only the stability improved due to the great financing. Taking a step forward, this phenomenon may result from the exaggerated reporting for the business performance before listing with the purpose of going public by the venture firms and small and medium sized firms. Thus, Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission should strengthen the accounting evaluation standard and regulation for the listing firms before going public. In addition, strict sanctions should be imposed on the firms with fraudulent accounting to establish healthy capital market.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.153-174
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• 2023

Electronic bill of lading, Letter of Guarantee, Surrender B/L, Seaway Bill, etc. have been proposed as alternative tools to overcome the crisis of bill of lading, but the most useful of these is by far the Surrender B/L. However, since the Surrender B/L has various problems due to the absence of a legal basis, studies so far have been conducted focusing on these legal limitations or problems in use of the Surrender B/L. This study tried to empirically identify the factors that affect the spread of Surrender B/L by expanding this point of research view. A hierarchical regression analysis was conducted by acquiring 190 valid samples centered on member companies of the Korea International Freight Forwarders Association. In addition, the R program was used to diagnose the research data and analyze the degree of spread by region. As a result of the empirical analysis, it was found that the utilization of Surrender B/L increased due to the convenience and cost reduction effect of Surrender B/L and the apprenticeship training of forwarding companies. In addition, as a result of regional analysis, the spread of Surrender B/L was notable not only in neighboring regions but also even in areas far from Korea.

• Digital Contents
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• no.2 s.81
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• pp.60-60
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• 2000

지불,결제와 함께 대표적인 전자상거래 솔루션의 하나인 보안분야는 올해 어느해보다도 고속성장을 누릴 전망이다. 금융과 증권업체가 인터넷 트레이딩과 뱅킹서비스를 본격화하고 인터넷 쇼핑몰업체가 완벽한 개인정보 보호를 위해 보안 솔루션 업그레이드를 적극 검토하고 있기 때문이다. 여기에 올해 대기업을 중심으로 기업간 (B to B) 전자상거래 시스템이 붐을 이루고 그동안 보안 사각지대였던 정부 등 공공기관이 보안시스템 구축에 적극 나서면서 보안업계는 사상 유례없는 호황을 누릴 것으로 보인다. 올해 보안업계의 화두로 떠오를 5대 이슈를 예측해본다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.94-96
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• 2004

기술의 발달로 인하여 컴퓨터에 사용되는 메모리가 대용량화되고, 가격이 저렴해지면서 메인 메모리 데이터베이스 시스템이 주목을 받고 있다. 메인 메모리 데이터베이스 시스템은 디스크 기반 데이터베이스 시스템에 비해 디스크 접근을 줄임으로써, 좀 더 빠른 트랜잭션 처리를 보여주고 있다. 그러나 전원 차단과 같은 장애 발생 시, 메모리의 휘발성으로 인한 데이터 손실에 항상 대비를 해야 한다. 증권, 통신사와 같이 실시간 서비스가 이루어지고, 시스템 장애가 큰 손실로 이어지는 곳에서는 장애 발생 시 데이터의 빠른 복구를 필요로 하게 된다. 본 논문은 메인 메모리 데이터베이스 시스템에서 CST-트리(Cache Sensitive T-tree)보다 좋은 성능을 보이는 CST-트리(Cache Sensitive T-tree)에서 사용할 수 있는 인덱스의 빠른 구축 기법을 제안한다.