• Korea Trade Review
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.47-66
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• 2018

This study analyzes the potential economic effects of a trade war between the U.S. and China. The CGE model is used to estimate the macroeconomic variables of each country and the change in imports/exports by industry by considering three different scenarios: (i) the US imposes a 25% of tariff on China; (ii) the US and China impose a 25% tariff bilaterally; (iii) the United States expands protection in vehicles and metals to Korea, Japan, and the EU. According to the results of the study, when the US and China initiate a trade war, GDP and welfare of both countries decline. China's decline in GDP and welfare are larger than those of the United States, which implies a trade war is more favorable to the U.S. than to China. In the long run, China's GDP and welfare decline widens further. While the trade volumes of the US and China are greatly reduced, the trade volumes of other countries does not significantly fluctuate. Finally, if the US extends protection policy to Korea, Japan and the EU, it creates undesirable effects on the US. In particular, damage to the US jeopardizes its advantageous position in a trade war with China. In order to emphasize the unfairness of protectionist policy and the damage to Korean industry, Korea needs to establish a strategy to counter US protectionist policy.

• Science & Technology Policy
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• v.16 no.1 s.157
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• pp.90-100
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• 2006

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-28
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• 1997

최근 전력가격의 인상을 통한 전력수요 조절에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본고에서는 개방경제 CGE 모형을 통하여 전기요금 인상이 국민총생산, 물개 무역수지 등 주요 거시변수들에 미치는 영향과 개별 산업의 생산, 생산물 가격, 수출입에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 1993년도 산업연관표에 기초하여 전체 산업을 16개 부분으로 통합, 재분류한 뒤, 전기요금 인상에 대한 다양한 정책실험을 시도하였다. 분석 결과 전력가격인상은 실질총생산의 감소 및 물가의 상승을 가져오나 그 정도는 기존의 연구보다 작은 것으로 나타났으며, 수출과 수입은 모두 감소하나 수출감소율이 수입감소율을 초과하여 무역수지는 악화되는 것으로 나타났다. 산업부문별로는 전기요금인상에 따라 비교역재에 가까운 서비스업의 생산량 감소효과가 두드러진 것으로 나타났다.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.313-331
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• 2007

In a rapidly changing environment of international trade, the purpose of this study is to examine economic benefits and losses of each country involved in the negotiation on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Northeast Asia and to prepare strategies for the negotiation in the FTA between Korea and China. Previous researches on FTA have been made mainly from the macroeconomic perspective. The approach in this study is a combination of regulatory, reviewing regulations, and economic making quantitative analysis of the economic effects of FTA, which are the basic background of FTA. In economic analysis, I estimated the macroscopic economic effects of FTA by examining the effects of FTA on the trade balance, GDP and production of focal countries through the Computable General Equilibrium(CGE) model using GTAP data set.

• Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.75-92
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• 1997

This paper is concerned with an estimation of optimal investment of road sector in 1996-2005. The main method is a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model for Korea in which the optimal solution is derived in a recursively dynamic path. The model is composed of three main modules: the supply, the demand and the price. In this paper, the investment demand for the road is optimized with subject to national economic growth and price inflation. If the annual inflation level and the economic growth rate during 1996-2005 are set to 4.5%-5.0% and 6.0%-6.5% respectively, the optimal demand for the road investment is estimated as 155.1-180.1 trillion Won or 3.33%-3.89% of the GDP for ten years. It implies that the additional increase of the road investment by 0.61%-1.15% of the GDP is required for sustainable economic development, since the share of the road investment in the GDP of the latest 5 years has stayed around 2.27%. However, it is necessary to reduce construction investments on housing as well as to promote private financing of the road in order to maximize an efficiency of resource allocation.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.53-82
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• 2002

Earlier papers, regarding this topic, have shown that the optimal environmental tax rate under the second best situation typically smaller than that under the first best world, the well known Pigouvian tax. This paper casts a doubt on the generality of this result, since the conclusion was derived from the models which employed rather strict assumptions on the utility function, which is homothetic and separable. This paper, with simple-static CGE model, shows that the result of earlier studies is sensitive to the assumption on the utility function. According to the simulation results, as previous studies pointed out, if the utility function is assumed to be homothetic, the optimal environmental tax rate is smaller than the Pigouvian tax. In contrast, if certain type of non-homotheticity is allowed, the optimal environmental tax rate could be greater than the Pigouvian tax. The results of this simulation also imply that the enlargement of environmental tax base could enhance the efficiency of overall tax system. Hence, there will be a less burden to share for the tax authority from the policy change.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.207-225
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• 1999

최근의 경제위기가 진행되는 과정에서 국제원유가가 급속하게 하락하고 있다. 거시경제적으로 볼 때 원유가의 하락은 생산측면에서 요소가격의 하락, 수요측면에서는 상대가격의 변동이라는 상호작용을 유도하게 된다. 본 연구는 연산일반균형모형(computable general equilibrium : CGE)을 구축하고 외생변수의 영향에 대한 모의실험을 하여 거시경제적인 측면에서 정량적인 효과를 측정하는데 목적이 있다. 신고전학파적인 이론에 기초한 CGE모형을 설정하고 국제원유가가 32.8% 하락한 외생적인 충격에 대하여 모의실험한 결과는 다음과 같다. 원유가 하락은 GDP성장률을 약 l.59% 상승시키고 물가가 l.2% 하락하는 거시경제적 측면에서 긍정적인 효과를 가져오는 것으로 계산된다. 또한 에너지 수입이 전체 무역에서 큰 비중을 차지하고 있기 때문에 국제수지의 측면에서도 약 47억 달러 개선효과를 가지는 것으로 나타난다. 상대가격의 변동은 산업별로 다른 효과를 가지는데 에너지를 집약적으로 투입하는 산업을 중심으로 산업별 생산량과 가격에서 상이한 효과를 보이는 것으로 나타났다.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.245-269
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• 1999

향후 기후변화협약과 같은 환경규제의 강화가 예견되는 상황에서 에너지산업은 상당한 정책변화를 겪게 될 것으로 예상된다. 이러한 정책수립과 결정과정에서 본 연구는 천연가스산업에 대한 정책변화 효과를 분석할 수 있는 일반균형 분석모형을 제시함으로써 천연가스산업에 관한 유용한 정보를 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 소국경제를 가정한 연산가능 일반균형모형(CGE)을 통해 분석된 천연가스산업의 거시경제적 파급효과를 살펴보면 다음과 같다. 먼저, 천연가스 가격이 5% 상승하였을 경우에는 실질GDP가 0.031% 감소하고, 생산자 물가지수는 0.051% 상승하였다. 가계수요가 10% 증가한 경우와 투자가 10% 증가한 경우에는 실질 GDP가 각각 0.002%씩 상승하고 생산자 물가지수는 0.008%와 0.004% 상승하는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 분석결과는 천연가스산업이 비교적 거시경제에 미치는 영향이 적은 것을 보여 주고 있다.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.125-135
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• 2022

This study is to analyze the economic effects of tariff reduction using computable general equilibrium(CGE) model. We set up the social accounting matrix for five-base equilibrium year. Our main findings are as follows. First, the impact of tariff reduction on GDP was different from time to time. It meas that the differentiated economics structure was affected by tariff reduction. As our economic grew up, the impact of tariff reduction was measured much higher. Second, until 1995 the impact of tariff reduction on total export and import was increased, then while 1995 the increase was dropped. This is because we reduced the tariff by the WTO negotiations. Third, the tariff reduction affected the price of imported goods, so it contributed to substitute effects between domestic and imported goods. According to these results, we found out the importance of the linkage between the tariff reduction and economic structure.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.23-51
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• 2009

This research alms at quantifying economic impacts of free trading policy on environment-friendly fuel industry applying a static general equilibrium (CGE) model for Korea. Theoretically, 'polluters haven' hypothesis had been debated as major issue on the environmental effects of trade liberalization during 1970s and 1980s but recent literature emphasizes that production, scale, structural, and regulatory effects may derive rapid diffusion of environment friendly technologies. In this study, trade liberalization policy affects output of agricultural sectors negatively while that of biodiesel as environment-friendly technology positively. The rise m the output of biodiesel is derived from the reduction in import prices of agricultural products due to the abolishment of tariff. The policy implication from the analysis is that feedstock for producing biodiesel should be exploited in the foreign countries where productivity of agriculture is quite predominant compared to Korean agriculture.