• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.127-138
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• 2022

In this paper, we present FinDID (Financial Decentralized IDentity), a blockchain-based DID(Decentralized IDentity) service that can flexibly control personal information or credentials through a systematic verification method while complying with the standard service scheme of decentralized identity for the financial sector. DID is an identity management system used in a decentralized environment without a specific certification authority, and as a technology that allows users to control their own information, it can realize self-sovereignty over users' own personal information. Through FinDID, users receive credentials that authenticate their various personal information from the issuer, select only the claims required by the target financial service using their personal electronic wallet, create presentations from credentials. Then they submit it to the financial service, leading to their qualification from the service. FinDID consists of electronic wallet, credential issuer, credential storage, DID service including DID management contract and credential management contract, and financial services using this service scheme. The DID service manages each user's DID and supports all verification processes of the associated identity management scheme.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.143-155
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• 2021

In this study, we focused on the decenterization, innovation, interoperability, and transparency that blockchain technology brings in the financial services sector. Decentralized financial services powered by blockchain technology can leverage virtual assets to expand the scope of financial services and create new business opportunities while encouraging innovation in financial services. Based on the understanding of the concept of De-Fi, we will look at the need for technology and major use cases, and look at future challenges. This will help us understand the vision of developing new technologies for innovation, while identifying the potential as new areas of fintech services.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.59-67
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• 2021

Blockchain technology began in 2008 when an unidentified person named Satoshi Nakamoto proposed a cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto had distrust of the existing financial system and wanted to implement a financial system that is robust against hacking or mannipulation without a middleman such as a bank through blockchain technology. Satoshi proposed a blockchain as a technology to prevent the creation of the bitcoin and forging of transactions, and through this, the functions of issuance, transaction, and verification of currency were implemented. Since then, Ethereum, a cryptocurrency that can implement the smart contract on the blockchain, has been developed, allowing financial products that require complex contracts such as deposits, loans, insurance, and derivatives to be brought into the area of cryptocurrency. In addition, it is expanding the possibility of substituting products provided by financial institutions through combination with real assets. These applications are defined as Decentralized Finance (DeFi). This paper was prepared to understand the overall technical understanding of DeFi and to introduce the services currently in operation. First, the technologies and ecosystems that implement the overall DeFi are explained, and then the representative DeFi services are categorized by feature and described.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.45-67
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• 2021

We analyze the social welfare effect when a policy-based financial system (PFS) enters a decentralized financial market. Particularly, the PFS in this case supports the interest spread for corporate loans held by firms with heterogeneous bankruptcy decisions under an imperfect information structure. Although support for capital costs through the PFS expands the economy consistently, the optimal level of PFS out of the corporate loan market is estimated to be 8.6% by a simulation model considering social welfare adjusted by the disutility of labor. This result is much lower than the recent level of PFS in the Korean financial sector.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.47-60
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to investigate the beyond budgeting model at Borealis Group. This company have succeed in beyond budgeting by rolling financial forecasts, balanced scorecard, Activity-based costing, and decentralized investment management. As study finding of this paper, proposed following items to domestic enterprises. The first, improvement of plan function of budgeting by rolling financial forecasts. the second, strategy and budget more than strong link by balanced scorecard. the third resource's strategic arrangement and efficient use. the fourth competitive advantage strategies associated with relative performance evaluation, the fifth, compensation public ownership by relative performance.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.1-24
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• 2005

The results of a study of the coordination effect in stocking and promotional markdown policies for a supply chain consisting of a retailer and a discount outlet (DCO) are reported here. We assume that the product is sold in two consecutive periods: the Normal Sales Period (NSP) and the subsequent Promotional Markdown Sales Period (PSP). We first study an integrated supply chain in which managers in the two periods design a common system so as to jointly decide the stocking quantities, markdown time schedule, and markdown price to maximize mutual profit. Next, we consider a decentralized supply chain. An uncoordinated contract is designed in which decisions are decentralized to optimize the individual party's objective function. Here, three sources of system inefficiencies cause the decentralized system to earn a lower expected system profit than that in the integrated supply chain. The three sources are as follows: in the decentralized system the retailer tends to (1) stock less, and (2) keep a longer sales period, and the DCO tends to (3) stock fewer leftovers inventories and charge a higher markdown price. Finally, a numerical experiment is provided to compare the coordinated model with the uncoordinated model to explore factors that make coordination an effective approach.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.105-114
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• 2022

Financial markets have long been known to be prone to behavioral biases. One such behavioural bias that is consequential yet pervasive in financial markets is the herd effect. The objective of this study is to determine whether or not there exist herd behaviour in the new and bourgeoning Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Tokens market. This is accomplished by using daily returns of 22 DeFi tokens from January 29, 2017 to August 19, 2021, and the Cross-sectional Absolute Deviation (CSAD) of market returns to capture herd behavior. The results fail to provide any evidence of herding in the DeFi token market on bullish days, that is days for which the average market returns is positive. For bearish days however, that is days for which the market returns is negative, our empirical findings point to the presence of adverse herding in the DeFi token market. This phenomenon can be explained to some extent by the investor composition of the DeFi market. The DeFi token space is a growth market dominated by experts and/or enthusiasts who are insulated against the temptation and panic of negative market swings by the level of market and technical information they possess on the assets they invest.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.285-309
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• 2019

Unlike the popular belief, digital transformation mainly gets stymied by legal and regulatory issues related with legacy institutions in Asia rather than technical difficulties. The real challenges triggered by the PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) are how the region would overcome the overly fragmented, centralized, and hierarchical legacy framework to allow necessary changes to respond to the digital single market initiatives as promulgated by the European counterpart. The PSD2 is expected to bring about substantial changes in the payment ecosystem by allowing payment service providers to access customers' accounts and transactions information via API that have been traditionally controlled by banks. This paper suggests an incentive-compatible mechanism design for open collaboration among legacy institutions in the region to help them adapt to the PSD2. As evidenced by case studies in Korea, the Asian equivalent of PSD2 can be implemented and further expanded to create region-wide PCS (payment-clearing-settlement) network by reconnecting the dots of legacy infrastructures. These decentralized, diverse, small payment networks can be further combined with the expanded RTGS-CDS platform to evolve into the next phase of Asian Financial Network.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.187-194
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• 2019

Ever since the world's largest Bitcoin Echange, (Mt. Gox), was closed in March 2014 due to the series of hacking, still many other Exchages incl. recent Coinale in Korea have been attacked. Those hacking attempts never stopped and have caused significant threats to the overall industry of Crypto Currency and resulted in the loss of individual investors' asset. The DEX (Decentralized Exchange) has been proposed as a solution to fix the security problem at the Exchange, but still it is far away to resolve all issues. Therefore, this paper firstly analyzes security threats against existing Crypto Currency Exchanges and secondly derives security requirements for them. To do that it proposes a secure and distributed Crypto Currency Transaction Model through Personal Security devices as a solution. The paper also proves this new attempt by demonstrating its unique modelling; ultimately by adopting this modeling into Crypto Exchange is to avoid potential security threats.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.7
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• pp.31-41
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• 2006

This study is to analyze the effect of compatibility of information characteristics and information technology structure on AIS performance. This used financial and non-financial factors as the characteristics of management accounting information and used information technology structure as centralization and decentralization classified by Ahtuv et.(1989) and Fiedler et.(1996). 425 sampling companies are selected randomly and 137 of them were used in this study. The results of this study are as follows. First, In compatibility analysis between the characteristics of management accounting information and information technology structure, in case of companies which have centralized data process system, AIS performance of companies which use financial information is higher than that of companies which use non-financial information. However, no meaningful results show statistically. in case of companies which have decentralized data process system, AIS performance of companies which use non-financial information is higher than that of companies which use financial information. Also the statistical results show the meaning at the p. < 0.01.