• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.83-109
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• 2007

This study evaluates citizen's willingness-to-pay for the benefits from improved water quality of the Taehwa river in Ulsan, Korea, using a contingent valuation method with double-bounded dichotomous choice. The estimation results of the bivariate probit model shows the amounts of willingness-to-pay are monthly 3,458.5 Korean Won per household and yearly 14,760 million Korean Won for total households in Ulsan, Korea. These estimates are equivalent to the social values of improved water quality of the Taehwa river. This study also tests the inter-dependence between two answers, which may occur in the responses of the questions for the double-bounded dichotomous choice, and all the null hypotheses on the inter-dependence are rejected in this study.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.981-998
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• 2012

In this paper, several count data model of travel cost recreation demand with Poisson and negative binominal specification are applied to estimate the value of access to the estuary area of Yeongsan river from visitor survey data. The results show that the negative binomial model that accounts for truncation and overdispersion provides the better goodness-of-fit, and therefore the value per visit(i.e. consumer surplus) is 89,350 won for resident of Jeolla province and 432,526 won for that of other provinces. If don't correct overdispersion by relying on Poisson estimates, the consumer surplus will be underestimated. Whereas the consumer surplus will be overestimated unless correct truncation by using estimates of untruncated models. As a result, the truncated negative binomial model should be applied to estimate the travel demand and the consumer surplus per visit by using survey data from single site visitors.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.57 no.2
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• pp.297-320
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• 2005

This study was attempted to give aids in making 'the Disability Discrimination Act' by estimating the potential Cost-Benefit in case that the discrimination on the disabled is removed. The potential benefits from this Disability Discrimination Act are calculated considering the income increase of the people with disabilities from additional employment for them and the decrease of employment levies and the public assistance benefits. The potential cost was made focusing on the following 2 expenses- the extra expenditures that the owners of companies had to invest from the employment of the disabled and the managing expenses for correcting discrimination organizations. As the result of this estimation, the potential net present value under the 7% discount rate is very high as 12,700,301 million won and the cost-benefit ratio is also great as 96.8. The consequence of the sensitive analysis in changing the discount rate also does not have great changes. As the result of these estimating results, it is known that when the discrimination is solved by the 'Disability Discrimination Act', the pure benefit of our society will become tremendous. After all, it could be said that the need for 'the Disability Discrimination Act' is emphasized and should be emphasized.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1540-1544
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• 2008

최근 기후변화의 영향일 것으로 추정되는 이상가뭄의 발생빈도가 잦아지는 상황에서 이에 대한 대비책으로서 댐의 비상용량을 비상용수로 공급하는 방안이 조심스럽게 제기되고는 있으나 현재까지 국내에서는 비상용수에 대한 명확한 정의조차 제시되지 않는 등 다소 생소한 개념이라고 할 수 있다. 본 연구는 비상용수 공급의 국내 외 사례와 비상용수 공급편익 산정에 관한 국내 외 연구를 검토하여 댐에 의한 비상용수 공급의 가능성과 가치를 평가하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 비상용수의 수요는 정기적으로 발생하지 않는 특수한 경우이고 용수공급을 대체할 만한 대안이 거의 없는 극한 상황에서 발생한다. 그러므로 생 공용수의 편익산정 방법에 일반적으로 이용되는 대체시설비용법과 같은 편익산정 기법을 적용하는 것은 여의치 않을 것으로 판단된다. 그리하여 본 연구는 비상용량이 사용될 때의 갈수빈도와 갈수피해액의 관계를 설정하고 피해경감액을 추정함으로써 연평균 편익을 산출하는 방안을 검토하는 방안을 제안하고자 한다. 비상용수 공급편익의 합리적인 계량화하기 위해서는 적절한 이수안전도의 설정과 이에 따른 이수기능의 평가가 선행되어야 한다. 그러나 아직까지 갈수규모에 따른 비상용수 공급편익의 산정방법에 대한 명확한 기준이 마련되지 않은 실정이다. 따라서 향후 비상시 댐의 이수기능을 최대한 활용하고 이에 대한 올바른 가치평가를 위해서도 관련분야에 대한 기초연구가 시급히 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.265-290
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• 2022

An economic evaluation was conducted using cost-benefit analysis for an integrated service platform of open access research articles. The data needed for benefit measurement were collected by conducting a series of surveys to service beneficiaries, including 1,313 academic researchers, 49 bio-industry researchers, and 102 researchers in various industries. Cost-benefit analysis and sensitivity analysis were conducted after estimating the total costs for system construction and operations, anticipated direct and indirect benefits. With respect to the cost-benefit analysis limited to direct benefits, the estimated benefit was KRW 82 billion, which is about 14 times of the total costs for eight years of the entire business period. With respect to the cost-benefit analysis for both direct and indirect benefits, BCR was estimated to be about 98.9 and NPV to be KRW 538.8 billion, indicating that economic feasibility of the project was sufficiently secured. The results of this analysis may help securing the investment to the integrated service platform for OA research products, and the benefit estimation model developed in this study would be utilized as an assessment tool during the rest of this project.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.126-126
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• 2017

수도권 광역상수도는 관로 매설 이후 30년 이상 경과하여 수도관로 사고 발생빈도가 증가하고 있다. 이에 노후관로를 갱생하여 사고예방과 용수공급 안정성 강화를 도모할 필요가 있으며, 이러한 사업의 수행 여부에 대한 판단을 위해서는 사업 시행으로 발생하는 경제적 편익에 대한 정량적 정보가 필요하다. 노후관로 갱생사업의 경제적 편익은 크게 관로사고 피해저감 편익과 복구비용 절감편익으로 구분되는데 후자는 공학적 접근을 통해 비교적 쉽게 평가할 수 있는 반면에, 전자는 평가가 어렵다. 이에 본 논문에서는 조건부 가치측정법이라는 경제학적 기법을 적용하여 관로사고 피해저감 편익을 추정하고자 한다. 수도권 광역상수도 갱생사업의 수혜지역 주민 600 가구를 무작위로 추출하여 수도권 광역상수도 갱생사업이 시행되지 않을 경우 관로사고가 발생할 수 있음을 설명한 후, 관로사고를 막기 위한 지불의사액을 조사하였다. 분석결과 관로사고 피해 회피를 위한 가구평균 지불의사액은 톤당 약 41.7원이었다. 이 정보는 노후관로 갱생사업에 대한 의사 결정시 활용할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.33-53
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• 2021

This study estimated the economic value of port redevelopment projects. The port redevelopment project consists of a combination of goods between market goods and non-market goods. The value of market goods can be measured at prices in the real market, but it is difficult to convert value estimates for non-market goods into currency values. Therefore, in this study, economic benefits of port redevelopment projects were estimated by the using the CVM. The estimated model used the Hanemann's model and the Bayesian approach to estimate the WTP of the sample group's using the single boundary model. Estimating the household's WTP, the Hanemann's model was estimated at KRW 10,038.33 and the Bayesian approach at KRW 12,217.1. As of the five-year period(discount benefits), the economic benefits of the port redevelopment project were estimated at 920.7 billion won for the Hanemann's model and 1.12 trillion won for the Bayesian model on a national basis. Meanwhile, as a result of estimating economic benefits(discount benefits) based on the administrative districts of Busan·Gyeongnam·Ulsan regions(five-year period), the Hanemann's model was estimated at KRW 140.4 billion and the Bayesian approach was estimated at KRW 170.8 billion.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.101-134
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• 2005

Economic feasibility analysis for the public projects such as sewer improvement project differs from the one for the project by profit organization in that the former has to take into consideration the public benefit that cannot be priced in the market. This study presents a model case study for the economic feasibility analysis for the sewer improvement project by the City of Gumi, Korea. The project is planned for the period of 2003~2021. It utilized Contingent Valuation Method(CVM) to assess the public benefits such as improvement of environmental quality and quality of life that can not be priced in the market. WTP(Willing-to-pay) of a household of the Gumi was estimated at 2,865 Korean Won on average. The result of an economic feasibility test including the estimated WTP indicates that B/C ratio of the project turned out to be 0.97, slightly less than 1. This study is the first application of WTP estimated by CVM to the economic feasibility analysis of public project in Korea. It is expected to contribute to the decision makings in the public policy domain as well as academic development.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.165-166
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• 2012

국내 선사와 선박의 안전관리시스템을 평가하기 위하여 평가 지표들을 종합적으로 적용할 수 있는 평가기준을 개발하였다. 추정된 비용과 편익을 기초로 순편익현재가치와 편익비용비율을 구하여 안전관리시스템 도입의 타당성을 분석하였다. - 생략

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.17-38
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to suggest new methods for evaluating the benefits of a preliminary feasibility study for port construction. For this purpose, this study analyzes the problem of barge loading and unloading systems, and suggests new methods such as using neighboring same kinds of ports first. The study also estimates the benefits for ports that have been evaluated by the existing theory, using the newly suggested methods. The result suggests that there is a possibility to reduce the level of economic feasibility for both general and container-exclusive ports by applying the newly suggested methods.