• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.5-18
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• 2017

Total debt in the People's Republic of China surged to nearly 290% as a ratio to GDP by the second quarter of 2016, mostly on account of non-financial corporate debt. The outpouring of credit to stem the impact of the global financial crisis accentuated industrial overcapacity in traditional sectors, such as steel, cement, and energy, while feeding asset bubbles in the property, equity and bond markets. At the Chinese corporate level, this has translated into weakened fundamentals and a fall in industrial profits, particularly of SOEs. As debtors struggle to service interest payments, non-performing loans (NPLs) have been on the rise. This paper assesses the financial fragility of the Chinese economy by looking at risk factors in the non-financial sector. We apply quantile regressions to a dataset containing all Chinese listed companies in Standard & Poor's IQ Capital database. We find higher sensitivity over time of corporate leverage to some of its key determinants, particularly for firms at the upper margin of the distribution. In particular, profitability increasingly acts as a curb on corporate leverage. At a time of falling profitability across the Chinese non-financial corporate sector, this eases the brake on leverage and may contribute to its continuing increase.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.155-194
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• 2009

1997년 외환위기 이후 지난 10년 동안 살인, 강도, 강간, 방화 등 신체에 직접적인 위해를 가하는 흉악범죄가 두 배 가량 증가하였다. 본 논문은 외환위기 이후의 사회경제적 변화가 범죄발생을 증가시키는 방향으로 이루어졌음을 전제하면서, 정부의 범죄억지정책이 이러한 사회적 변화에 적절하게 대응하였는지를 검토하였다. 방범 및 검거, 양형, 교정 등 범죄억지정책을 구성하는 개별 영역들에 대한 분석은 자원투입이나 효과성 면에서 범죄억지를 위한 충분한 노력이 이루어지지 못했음을 보여준다. 외환위기 이후 악화된 치안환경을 복원하고, 최근 발생한 세계적 경제위기가 야기할 수 있는 추가적인 치안환경 악화를 예방하기 위해서는 범죄억지를 위해 보다 많은 자원투입과 정책의 효과성 증대를 위한 노력이 필요하다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.39-50
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• 2021

We investigate competition and its impact on borrowers' indebtedness (BI) in South Asian microfinance. Our empirical investigations are based on a comprehensive panel dataset of 355 MFIs located in seven countries in South Asia. The empirical results revealed that microfinance in South Asia is imperfectly competitive and the existing industry shows a monopolistic competition during the period under consideration. Also, the competition increased after the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2007-08 which implies that microfinance uses hostile lending behavior through the adverse selection that is highly risky and it can induce repayment crisis. The empirical findings also show that increased competition has significant negative effects on borrowers' indebtedness, particularly in large-scale and regulated microfinance organizations (MFIs). Instead of using equity financing, debt financing could be a better option. Finally, we find that while competition seems to have some positive effects in economic discourse by channeling technological improvements in products and services, its negative effects in microfinance outweigh the benefits over costs, particularly in poverty-stricken nations. The findings are helpful for the policymakers, microfinance industry, investors, borrowers, and Central Bank of South Asian markets.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.699-711
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• 2011

본 연구의 배경은 아시아 외환위기 발생시점 기준, 사전 및 사후 기간 상호 간의 국내 대기업들의 부채비율 변화에 대한 차이점을 발견하기 위해 분석하는 것이다. 본 연구의 목적은 정부로부터 타인자본 조달 시 상대적으로 우선순위를 유지하였다고 주장되는 재벌기업 중심의 대기업들이, 금융위기 이후에도 연구표본자료에 포함된 대응기업들과 비교에서 지속적으로 높은 부채비율을 유지하는가에 대한 가설을 검증하는 것이다. 재벌에 속하는 기업들은 평균적으로 높은 장부가 대비 그리고 시장가 대비 부채비율을 상대기업들과 비교하여, 표본기간동안 유지하였음이 판명되었고, '시간' 대용 더미변수인 2002년과 2003년의 변수들은 (장부가 기준의) 부채비율과 역(-)의 상관관계를 보였다. 새로운 회계처리기준(K-IFRS)를 고려하여, 현재까지 대차대조표의 부외항목으로만 산정되는 영업리스 금액을 자산과 부채에 새로이 포함하여 산정한 부채비울 기준으로 분석한 결과, 모델에 포함된 설명변수들 기준, 차이가 없음을 통계적으로 발견하였다. 정부는 그 동안 지속적으로 기업회계의 투명성과 기업소유구조를 중심으로 한 기업지배구조의 개선에 관한 정책을 수행하여 왔으며, '새로운' 부채비율에 대한 정의는 기업의 부채를 측정하는 점에 더욱 효율적 일 수 있다고 판단한다. 또한, 현재 진행 중인 한국-미국 간 그리고 한국-중국 간 등의 자유무역협정(FTA)이 시행될 경우, 다국적 기업들의 국내 현지법인 설립 시, 본 논문의 결과는 동 법인들이 적정 부채비울을 구성하는 점에 응용될 수 있음을 시사한다고 판단한다.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.3-23
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• 2012

The recent global financial crisis has highlighted the importance of international monetary and financial system reform. The current system is deemed to be no longer adequate to meet the needs of a complex, integrated world economy. With regards to the reform of the international monetary system, there have been various proposals both in demand and supply sides. These include proposals to build a stronger global financial safety net, to diversify the supply of international reserve currency and so on. These proposals face trade-offs between desirability and political feasibility. Given this situation, a practical transition would be to strengthen policy coordination among the major economies and to reform the International Monetary Fund. The success on both fronts depends heavily on global economic governance reform and the role of the G20. Increased status and representation of Asian countries in the G20 give both privileges and responsibilities to Asians. To meet these responsibilities, Asians should put forth greater efforts to develop their intellectual leadership in global economic issues through creating new forum and institutions.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.268-276
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• 2023

As the climate crisis intensifies, the need to improve the climate resilience of developing countries is ever increasing. Hence, the international community is seeking ways to effectively conduct climate technology transfer by linking the projects with financial mechanisms. However, commercialization of climate technology in developing countries is no easy feat as comprehensive knowledge on the target country is a prerequisite for seeking a suitable technology-financial linkage measure. Hence, in-depth discussions on effective climate technology and financial linkage measures have become an important global agenda, and South Korea, as a country with long experience in climate technology transfer, and a strong ecosystem for public climate technology, should step forward to take up a leading role. Against this backdrop, this paper proposes strategies and implementation measures for linking funds from the Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) with Korea's Public Climate Technology (PCT) by examining several key areas of R&D, international cooperation, and technology commercialization.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.245-273
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• 2024

This paper sets up a small open new Keynesian economy model with constrained households and incomplete markets to address the driving forces of business cycles in Korea. It shows that there exists a substantial fraction of constrained households who cannot have access to financial market. Furthermore, the estimated model reveals that a TANK model is better than a RANK model in explaining business cycles in Korea. The effect of domestic productivity shock on Korean economy has dominated in the variations of output, while the contribution of the foreign productivity shock to the variations of output and inflation has increased after the Asian financial crisis. The monetary policy shock has dominated the variation of inflation at short and medium horizons.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.171-179
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• 2021

In the international markets, financial variables can be volatile and may affect each other, especially in the crisis times. COVID-19, which began in China in 2019 and spread to many countries of the world, created a crisis not only in the global health system but also in the international financial markets and economy. The purpose of this study is to analyze the contagious effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the volatility of selected financial variables such as Bitcoin, gold, oil price, and exchange rates and the connections between the volatilities of these variables during the pandemic. For this aim, we use the ARMA-EGARCH model to measure the impact of volatility and shocks. In other words, it is aimed to measure whether the impact of the shock on the financial variables of the contagiousness of the epidemic is also transmitted to the markets. The data was collected from secondary and daily data from September 2th 2019 to December 20th, 2020. It can be said that the findings obtained have statistically significant effects on the conditional variability of the variables. Therefore, there are findings that the shocks in the market are contaminated with each other.

• 수산경영론집
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2001

In recent years Korea fisheries have been much more influenced than ever before by domestic and foreign environmental changes such as market liberalization, sustainability, efficiency and effectiveness of domestic fisheries, fisher's welfare etc. Under the wide range of environmental changes, government is carrying out various fisheries policies. However, it seems insufficient to accomplish policy goals under the existing policy instruments. The main focus of the paper is to investigate structural changes and policy directions of fisheries finance in Korea after asian economic crisis. The results of the study are as follows; Fisheries sector in whole economy has been lowering in its proportion. To survive in emerging global competition, fisheries sector is needed structural reformation. In particular the strategy that increases operative efficiency and effectiveness on government financial policy in fisheries sector is much expected. Also, it is necessary to minimize costs, to reform institution and management for increasing efficiency and effectiveness.

• 산업융합연구
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.187-216
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• 2004

After Asian financial crisis hit the Korea, Korean government and Korean firms need to restructure their system. Specially financial sector has to renew its system. One way renew its system was adjust company's labor system. The forms of labor adjustment are external numerical flexibility, externalization, internal numerical flexibility, functional flexibility and wage flexibility. These five forms based on two big categories which are wage flexibility and employment flexibility. This study only focus on th effect of employment flexibility in financial sector in Korea. Employment flexibilities can be practice as employment adjustment. Also we concentrate on separation and re-accessors to other financial institute after the separation. The result shows that Korean financial sector are in the range of 10.78% and the job destruction rates are about 11.26%. During the period from year 1998 to year 2002, the numbers of accession has down about 30%. The logit statistical analysis for separation shows that demographical variables and the reasons of separation affected separation and reemployment.