• STI Policy Review
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2010

Energy consumption is the largest contributing factor for the increase of $CO_2$ emissions and amounts for almost 85% of all emissions. The future energy consumption of Korea is projected to grow exponentially despite its heavy dependence on imported energy that represents 97% of its total energy supply. According to a recent OECD report the carbon emission level of Korea is currently ranked 9th in $CO_2$ emissions, and is growing by almost 3% every year. Against this background, the Korean government introduced the "low carbon green growth" policy in 2008. As the global challenges intensified in the wake of the world economic crisis, Korea has been working hard in raising the visibility of its efforts at the club governance meetings, in particular the G-20 summit. Because of cooperative efforts with major member countries, the G-20 summit agenda has been significantly diversified to include long-term issues such as climate change, development issues, and global health. To achieve an effective green recovery for a new green world economic order, the G-20 summit leaders should concentrate on a strategy of establishing green governance for a global STI cooperation. Korea as the host country is poised to leverage the Seoul G-20 summit to catalyze global efforts toward a new green economic order.

• 국토계획
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.133-147
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• 2019

This study examined the effect of homeownership and homeownership desirability on residential satisfaction. By using the '2016 Korea Housing Survey', we categorized households into four types: 1) those who own a home with homeownership desirability; 2) those who own a home without homeownership desirability; 3) those who do not own a home with homeownership desirability; and 4) those who do not own a home without homeownership desirability. The study area is the whole country and the sample size is 19,219. By running t-test analyses and multiple regression analyses, we found that the level of residential satisfaction and the influences of factors affecting residential satisfaction differ among the four types. In particular, the results shows that homeownership desirability can lead to differences in factors affecting residential satisfaction. This study is limited by not analyzing homeownership desirability more systemically and not using physical data for residential environment. Nevertheless, this study provides insights on designing housing policy to consider homeownership desirability.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.85-95
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• 2010

There is increasing consensus that global warming is seriously affecting the Arctic region. Sea Ice decreases and sea level rise have led to environmental change in Arctic Ecosystems, while also making the Arctic sea route more accessible to humans. There are complicated international governance dynamics in play, in addition to commercial and scientific interests in the Arctic region. This provides a unique opportunity for Korea to lead the future direction of Arctic policy in response to the global issues such as climate change and economic or scientific interests. Korea acquired Ad-hoc Observer status of the Arctic Council(AC) in 2008, which is the only pan-Arctic intergovernmental organization. It consists of six working groups: ACAP, AMAP, CAFF, PAME, EPPR, SDWG that implement research, survey, and monitoring. AC's Observer country has the opportunity to participate in a diverse range of activities such technical and expertise support, research and monitoring, financial support and conference organization. In order for Korea to expand its activities in the Arctic region, we suggest the following approach: First, Korea should become more actively engaged with the Arctic Council and its activities; Second, Korea should construct organized collaborative networks of national experts to respond to Arctic issues; Third, Korea should develop collaborations with Arctic states; Finally, Korea should intensify its research on international relations and international laws related to the Arctic region.

• Architectural research
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.135-143
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• 2020

The Netherlands is a human-made country and an extremely well-designed European country as well. The general Dutch spatial planning for the city and environment takes place at a regional level. The local community determines the primary development conditions, and the prospect is included in a legally binding land-use plan. Especially, Rotterdam is a representative port city as the center of world trade and the gateway to western Europe. According to the history of war, the city reconstruction and the movement of the port area have led to a general change in Rotterdam and the regional redevelopment project on the southern port area of Mass river for the expansion of city functions and the balanced development. The research purpose is to understand the spatial development of the Netherlands city-region based on the analysis regarding the Kop van Zuid project, which is a representative implemented case in Rotterdam. The theoretical framework is the five dimensions and twelve indicators of territorial governance from the TANGO research project by the EU. The target case is assessed by planning and social aspect, respectively, and the results are discussed based on the theoretical framework. This research has the possibility to be utilized as advanced research by the European perspective for spatial development in other city-regions with the port area, such as Incheon and Busan in Korea.

• 동아시아경상학회지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2015

The authors consider, that the effectiveness of the government's activity, the improvement of decisions' quality depends on implementation of modern innovative technologies through activation the direct and feedback connection between public authority system and the business -community, through increasing the level of their collaboration by participating in solving main social problems and discu ssing innovative projects (initiative) according questions about socio-economic development of the country, improving the system of the state and local government in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.39-75
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• 2019

An emphasis on public-private partnership (PPP) in the regulatory policy process can overcome the challenges hindering regulatory effectiveness with the emergence of fast developing technologies and new industries. This study attempts to evaluate quantitatively different aspects of institutional settings of South Korean regulatory policy in terms of stakeholder engagement as PPP, using evidence-based data released by the OECD. From the results of the principal component analysis, South Korea can be evaluated as being at a very good level overall in its institutional establishment. Nevertheless, the fact that the outcome of regulatory reforms in South Korea is still insufficient compared with this well-established system suggests that the country should concentrate on improving system operation. Consequently, this study makes policy suggestions to improve regulatory effectiveness through PPP by supplementing the facets that are well-equipped but not feasible with respect to regulatory policy cycle, regulatory governance, regulatory method, and conflict resolution.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2019

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of Offcial Development Assistance (ODA) in recipient countries' economy. ODA is designed to mitigate poverty and stimulate economic growth in the developing countries. We classify total ODA into bilateral ODA and multilateral ODA depending on the number of donor countries. If the ODA flows from one donor country to one recipient country, it is classified as bilateral ODA. If the multiple countries simultaneously become donor countries through the international organizations such as United Nations and World Bank, it is classified as multilateral ODA. This paper compares the effect of bilateral ODA and multilateral ODA in determining recipient countries' economic development, and tries to provide policy implications to Korean ODA. Research design, data, and methodology - Our primary explanatory variables are bilateral and multilateral ODA. Private credit in recipient countries is adopted as additional explanatory variables to capture the level of financial development in recipient countries. We measure the ODA effectiveness using economic growth and quality of life of the recipient countries as the dependent variable. We collect 142 recipient countries' data from OECD statistics, during the period from 1970-2014. Panel least squares estimation with country fixed effect is employed as the empirical model. Results - Our results support that ODA variable has a negatively significant impact on recipient countries' economic growth, while it is positively correlated with human development index. Recipient countries' private credit is positively correlated with economic growth and human development index. The interaction variable of ODA and financial development turns out to be significant in general. We find that the positive effect of ODA depends on recipient countries' financial market development and this effect is stronger in multilateral aid than bilateral one. Conclusions - From the analysis, we have confirmed that the recipient countries financial development is the necessity condition to achieve positive effect of ODA. Based on these results, we suggest that Korean government should increase the share of multilateral funding and pay attention to recipient countries' financial market development to maximize the effectiveness of ODA.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.31-47
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• 2022

본 연구의 목적은 국가의 ESG 이행 성과와 유관한 세부 지표들을 분류 및 측정할 수 있는 신뢰성 있는 도구를 개발하여 그 적용 가능성에 대한 타당성을 검증하는 것이다. 투입 데이터로서 World Bank의 자료를 토대로 총 239개의 국가를 대상으로 측정한 67개 종류의 ESG 관련 세부 지표를 대상으로 구조방정식의 확인적요인분석과 경로분석을 시행하여 세부지표들을 환경, 사회, 지배구조의 3가지 부문으로 그룹화할 수 있는 최적 모형 도출을 시도하였다. 분석 결과 총 10개의 세부지표들이 국가의 ESG 이행성과와 통계적으로 유의한 관계가 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 해당 세부지표들은 1차 잠재변수인 E, S, G와 모두 양(+)의 상관관계를 보였으며, 모형의 적합도에서도 전반적으로 높은 지수를 보여 변수투입의 타당성 및 신뢰성을 확보하였다. 결과적으로 본 연구는 ESG를 구성하는 다수의 세부 성과 지표들의 잠재변수로의 분류가 가능함을 확인하였으며, 변수의 선정 방법 및 투입 타당성에 대한 명확한 기준을 제시하였다 할 수 있다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.245-254
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• 2020

This study investigates the impact of the country's governance on the revenue efficiency in the banking sectors of 42 Islamic banks in 15 countries offering Islamic banking and financial services. Technical efficiencies of individual Islamic banks were analyzed using the Data Envelopment Analysis method. The Ordinary Least Square estimation method is employed to examine the impact of country supervision and regulation on the technical efficiency of Islamic banks. With robustness check, the study assesses the impact of bank regulations and supervision on the efficiency of Islamic banks operating in different regions. The empirical findings suggest that supervisory power, activity restrictions, and private monitoring positively influence the efficiency of Islamic banks. On the other hand, we observe a negative impact of capital requirement on Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. The findings indicate that supervisory power, activity restrictions, and private monitoring positively influence the efficiency of Islamic banks in Asia, but vice versa on capital requirement in MENA countries. This study will contribute to the body of knowledge by assessing the types of reforms in bank regulations and supervision that work best for Islamic banks in order to increase the level of efficiency and the level of regulations and supervision of Islamic banks.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.704-719
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• 2006

프랑스에서 2004년부터 국가주도로 실시되고 경쟁거점 정책은 '프랑스형 클러스터 모델'로서, 기업 간 파트너십, R&D 중심 협력프로젝트, 세계적 수준의 경쟁력을 추구하는 개념이다. 그동안 프랑스가 추진해온 지방분권적 거버넌스 구축의 결실이기도 한 이 정책은 우리나라의 관련 정책들에 시사 하는 바가 크다. 본 연구는 먼저 90년대 말 실시된 프랑스 최초의 본격적인 클러스터 정책인 지역생산시스템(SPL), 이를 더욱 발전시키고 새로운 국토정책 사조에 따라 재정립한 경쟁거점 정책의 주요 측면을 살펴보겠다. 그리고 프랑스 국토정책 기조 전반에 입각하여 경쟁거점 정책의 의의를 분석하며 우리에게 주는 시사점을 비교적 관점에서 도출하고자 한다. 비교 대상으로는 우리나라 혁신클러스터 정책 외에도 기업도시나 혁신도시 등 클러스터 개념이 접목된 일련의 국토정책들이 될 것이다.