• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.28-44
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• 2023

This study investigates aircraft lessor business models by studying cases and interviewing experts to analyze investors and business strategies of aircraft lessor. The results confirm that there is a wide range of investors including institutional investors, financial institutions, insurance companies, corporations, and wealthy individuals for aircraft lessor. Aircraft lessors can be categorized based on its required rate of return (cost of capital) into bank-investing core, institutional investor-investing value-added, and hedge fund-investing opportunistic. Aircraft lessor decides leasing rate by aircraft purchasing price and lessee's credit rating. Core aircraft lessors invest in new aircrafts for new placement or sale-and-leaseback strategy requiring little technical risk in aircraft, value-added lessors invest in middle-aged aircrafts for re-leasing, opportunistic lessors invest in old aircrafts for freighter conversion or part-out strategy requiring high level of expertise. This study provides insights for future Korean aircraft lessor establishment and investment.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.27-53
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• 2013

Technology research and development (R&D) expenditures have increased as most countries recognize that technological innovation is a significant factor for continued economic growth. R&D subsidies by governmental entities were permitted in accordance with the Subsidy and Countervailing Measure (SCM) Agreement under the World Trade Organization (WTO) system. However, according to Article 31 of the SCM Agreement the provision for R&D subsidies have been terminated as of January 2000 and legal disputes over R&D subsidies are likely to increase. The aircraft industry has been the only industry where R&D subsidies have become an issue under the WTO. This paper examines international trade disputes within the aircraft industry in regards to measures by Canada and bilateral disputes between the U.S. and the European Communities (EC). In these cases, various R&D subsidies on civil aircraft are found to be inconsistent with WTO rules. This study summarizes the WTO decisions on various R&D subsidies disputed in the aircraft cases and examines the type of R&D subsidies found to be inconsistent (or consistent) with the WTO to provide guidelines for current and future R&D subsidy policies in high-tech industries. The Canada-Aircraft case indicates that R&D subsidies directly targeted towards near market R&D projects with a high export potential will likely be in violation of current WTO rules. Furthermore, findings from the EC-Aircraft and the U.S.-Aircraft cases suggest that the forms (or the methods) of R&D subsidy distribution were not a sufficient condition for the WTO ruling; instead, what ultimately mattered was whether and specifically to whom the benefits of the R&D subsidies are conferred by the government entities.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.155-176
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• 2015

리스는 중국 항공사들이 해외 제조업체들로부터 항공기를 도입해올 때 사용하는 한 가지 방법이며 중국 항공사들은 리스를 30년 넘게 사용해왔다. 항공기 리스는 본질적으로 금전적 거래의 성격을 지니고 있으며 임대인(리스회사)은 임대된 항공기의 보유권을 양도하는 방식을 통해 임차인에게 재원을 제공한다. 30년 전 중국이 리스 방식을 통해 항공기를 들여오기 시작했을 때, 중국 국내법은 이러한 리스 활동들을 규제하기에 매우 불충분했다. 그러므로, 당시에 항공기 리스 법에 대한 제정이 촉발되었으며 일부 수확들이 존재했다. 현재는 계약, 물권, 채무불이행, 파산 구제책 등의 측면들과 관련된 항공기 활동들을 조정하는 규제들이 존재한다. 그러나 시스템이 개선되기 위해서는 탐구의 과정들을 거쳐야 하듯이, 중국의 항공기 리스 법 역시 아직 많은 도전들에 직면하고 있다. 특히 국내 리스 산업의 부상과 밝은 전망으로 인해 항공기리스의 새로운 거래 구조와 모형들이 떠올랐으며, 이는 현재의 법적 체계에 대한 도전으로 작용하고 있다. 항공기 리스와 관련된 중국 법 제도의 주요 내용과 역사에 대한 소개를 기반으로, 본 논문은 계약, 물권, 구제책들과 관련된 현 중국 법안들의 성과와 도전들에 대한 분석을 제공한다.