• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.161-178
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• 2023

Purpose - purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of the investment facilitation levels of 11 RCEP countries (excluding Myanmar, Brunei, and Laos due to lack of data) on China's outward foreign direct investments(OFDI) using balanced panel data from 2010 to 2019. Design/methodology - First, four investment facilitation measurement indicators (regulatory environment, infrastructure, financial market, ease of doing business) were selected,investment facilitation scores of the 11 countries were obtained using the principal component analysis, an investment gravity model was established with nine explanatory variables (investment facilitation level, market size, population, geographic distance, degree of opening, tax level, natural resources, whether the country is an APEC member or not, and whether a valid bilateral investment treaty with China has been concluded) were used to establish an investment gravity model, and regression analyses were conducted with OLS and system GMM. Findings - The results of the regression analyses showed that investment facilitation levels had the greatest effect on China's OFDI, all four first-level indicators had positive effects on China's OFDI, and among them, the institutional environment had the greatest effect. In addition, it was shown that explanatory variables such as market size, population, geographical distance, degree of openness, natural resources, and whether or not a valid bilateral investment treaty has been concluded would have positive effects on China's OFDI, while tax levels and APEC membership would impede China's OFDI to some extent. Originality/value - Since the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEPT) came into effect not long ago, there are not so many studies on the effects of investment facilitation levels of RCEP member states on China's OFDI, and the investment facilitation measurement index constructed in this paper is relatively systematic and scientific because it includes all the contents of investment facilitation related to the life cycle of company's foreign direct investments.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제24권
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• pp.107-125
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• 2004

This study is based on the survey data of 74 Korean multinational corporations, which undertook foreign direct investments from 1980 to 1996. The study examined the firm-specific as well as the host country-specific factors affecting the decision between shared and full ownership. According to the results of this study, as for the firm-specific factors, Korean firms entering foreign markets in order to penetrate local markets prefer shared ownership while those pursuing core business diversification prefer full ownership. As for the host country factors, the more advanced the host country(such as OECD countries) is, the more preference is given to full ownership.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2016

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays a vital role in economic growth of the countries. The present study analyses the impact of the FDI on economic growth of South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation countries by using the pooled data for the period 1990-2014. Neo-classical production function has been used for analysis and getting stock-to-flow estimation, Taylor series approximation has applied. Fixed Effects Model has been used to investigate the impact of FDI, domestic capital, labour and government expenditures on economic growth. It is the evident from the results that both domestic investment and FDI have been a positive effect on economic growth. The study finds that the contribution of domestic private investment is more trustworthy than the contribution of FDI. Consequently, FDI loses its attraction as an engine of growth if the adverse balance of payment consequence of the resulting profit repatriating is also taken into account. The labour has positive and significant association with GDP. The effect of government expenditure is negligible on economic growth. The findings suggest that growth strategy cannot yield the long term benefits if it neglects investments on human capital.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.183-189
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• 2021

Transfer pricing is a matter of concern for countries. It affects the interests of the parties involved in the commercial transaction. Through manipulation of prices in transactions, businesses take advantage of tax rates in a country to adjust profits for economic gain. This affects the fairness and rationality of economic transactions between related parties. The article uses a two-year time series from 2018 to 2019 of 50 foreign direct investment enterprises in Vietnam. The article uses ordinary least squares to test the hypotheses of the research model. The article uses four independent variables related to ownership structure affecting transfer pricing decisions including total ownership, organization ownership, concentration ownership, and area ownership. Research results show that two variables have a positive influence on transfer pricing decisions including total ownership and organization ownership. Organization ownership has a higher degree of influence than total ownership. To be able to control transaction activities related to transfer pricing, Vietnam's state management agencies need to pay attention to perfecting the legal framework based on supplementing and amending regulations related to transfer pricing. Legal regulations need to be regulated based on international common practices to ensure uniformity on a global scale.

• 무역학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.51-65
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• 2020

According to an analysis of 560 foreign-invested companies investing in South Korea's manufacturing industry, the following three facts were found. First, the proportion of sales by manufacturing foreign-invested companies is divided into 68.5 percent of domestic sales and 31.5 percent of exports. From 68.5 percent of domestic sales, sales to Korean companies are 60.5 percent, including 37.1 percent for large companies and 23.4 percent for small and medium-sized companies, while only 8.0 percent for domestic consumers. Second, the investment sectors of manufacturing foreign-invested enterprises are 'machine and equipment manufacturing', 'chemical and chemical-chemical material manufacturing-excluding pharmaceuticals', 'electronic components, computers, video, sound and communication equipment manufacturing' and 'vehicle and trailer manufacturing'. It overlaps with electric·electronics, petro-chemicals and automobiles, which are Korea's main industries and areas of Korean global companies. Third, 31.5 percent of the sales of foreign-invested companies in the manufacturing sector are exported. Foreign-invested companies export their products to use them for their parents or affiliates or to the third countries. The analysis shows that foreign-invested companies invested in Korea for B2B transactions with Korean companies. The implications are that Korea can attract foreign investments by utilizing Korean companies' demand for intermediate goods. Foreign-invested companies can invest in Korea in order to use Korea, which has signed free trade agreements with the US, the EU and ASEAN, as an export platform.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.441-468
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• 2020

Capital inflows have a strong presence that influences destination countries' development of institutions, which can in turn help resuscitate a stopped economy and re-attract capital that was lost during crises such as the recent public health crisis. While the previous literature emphasizes the mechanism that foreign investors press or even threaten the local government for change, this paper explores empirically whether institutional improvement can be achieved through the channel that host countries voluntarily reform institutions in anticipation of potential investments predicted by the exogenous geographical and cultural characteristics of the recipient countries. Given that countries with better institutional quality can accumulate larger FDI stocks, we still find that the need for more FDI, in contrast to FPI and debt, gives higher incentives to host countries to strategically improve their institutions before seeking capital overseas. Moreover, the predicted FDI exerts more prominent impacts on institutions on constraining elite than those involved in launching a business, enforcing contracts, and protecting properties. The results imply that a long-run plan for upgrading elite constraint institutions is crucial for a post-pandemic FDI reboot.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.376-384
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• 2022

The article considers the features of the organizational-economic mechanism of attracting investment resources in the innovative development of regions in terms of sustainable development. Factors influencing the investment activity of regions in terms of sustainable development, including: institutional structure, intellectual capital, level of innovation infrastructure, business development, financial and credit component, level of human resources development, information environment, production development, environmental component. Factors influencing the attraction of investment resources in the regions are identified. The dynamics of changes in the volume of capital investments and foreign direct investment in Ukraine is analyzed. The regional features of the distribution of capital investments in the conditions of sustainable development are revealed. The essence of the main principles on the basis of which the organizational - economic mechanism of attraction of investment resources in innovative development of regions in the conditions of sustainable development should be formed is analyzed. A set of measures to regulate the investment processes of the regions has been identified. The mechanism of attraction of investment resources in innovative development of regions in the conditions of sustainable development is outlined. The results of activity of separate Agencies of regional development for 2020 in the direction of investment and innovation activity and increase of level of investment attractiveness of regions are analyzed. Important prerequisites for the effective implementation of the organizational-economic mechanism for attracting investment resources in the innovative development of regions in terms of sustainable development are identified. The main directions of directing the efforts of the organizational-economic mechanism to ensure the attraction of investment resources in the innovative development of regions in the context of increasing the level of investment activity in the regional aspect are substantiated.

• 노동경제논집
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2006

본 논문은 해외직접투자가 임금에 미치는 효과를 1987년부터 1992년에 걸쳐 미국 내 제조업 자료를 통해 살펴보았다. 기존 연구들은 주로 산업별 혹은 기업별 평균임금 자료를 이용함으로써 임금에 영향을 미치는 개인의 특성을 반영하지 못한다는 한계를 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 개인별 데이터를 이용하여 개인의 특성이 임금에 미치는 효과를 고려하고 난 후의 해외직접투자의 효과를 추계하기 위하여 두 가지의 서로 다른 추정방법을 채택하였다. (1) 첫 번째 방법은, 개인별 서베이 자료인 CPS 데이터를 이용해 미국 내 제조업의 지역별 산업별 단위 해외직접투자 수준을 직접 임금방정식의 설명변수로 사용하는 방법이고, (2) 두 번째 방법은, 2단계에 걸쳐서 추계되는데, 1 단계에서 CPS 데이터를 이용해 개인의 특성이 배제된 산업별 임금프리미엄을 추정한 후, 이렇게 추정된 산업별 입금프리미엄을 2단계에서 종속변수로 사용하여 해외직접투자 수준을 다른 산업특성변수와 함께 설명변수에 포함시켜 추정하는 방법이다. 기존의 연구들이 일반적으로 해외직접투자 수준과 근로자 임금 사이에 유의미한 양의 관계를 발견하고 있는 것과는 달리, 본 논문의 분석에서는 두 자지 방법 모두에서 이러한 관계가 관찰되지 않는다. 특히 두 번째 방법을 사용하여 고졸 이상의 학력을 취득한 노동자의 임금만을 따로 분석한 경우, 해외직접투자 수준과 임금프리미엄 사이에는 오히려 부의 관계가 존재하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.283-297
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• 2022

본 연구는 중국기업의 '일대일로' 연선 국가에 대한 직접투자 전략과 구조를 더닝(Dunning)의 OLI 패러다임 관점에서 분석하였다. 중국기업의 '일대일로' 연선 국가에 대한 투자는 크게 두 가지 전략적 목적에서 추진 되었다. 하나는 '일대일로' 연선 국가의 자원보유 특성상 에너지자원 확보를 위한 투자이고, 또 다른 하나는 중국 국내경제의 문제인 과잉설비 문제를 해결하기 위한 이전(移轉) 투자이다. 중국기업의 이러한 '일대일로' 연선 국가에 대한 투자는 더닝이 OLI 패러다임에서 제기하고 있는 투자 결정 조건, 즉 소유권 우위와 지역특유의 우위 그리고 내부화 우위를 갖춘 가운데 투자를 진행한 것으로 평가된다. 다만 차이가 있다면, 이 지역이 갖는 특수성으로 인해 자원보유 현황 및 제도적 환경의 영향 외에 국제관계의 이해관계 구도, 종교적 갈등 문제와 문화적 이질성 그리고 이 지역 국가들의 중국기업에 대한 인식의 문제 등의 영향으로 투자국가와 투자방식 그리고 투자업종을 달리하고 있다는 점이다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.177-201
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• 2011

미얀마는 2011년에 들어 역사상 두 번째 총선거로 신정부가 출범하게 되었으며 경제 특구법 발표, 2009년 한 해에만 190억 달러에 달한 외국인 투자 유입, 사회기반 인프라 구축 프로젝트, 50년 만에 노동조합과 노동자들의 파업권 허용 등 미얀마 정치경제에 큰 변화가 일어나고 있다. 한국의 대 미얀마의 투자 및 교역도 과거와 달리 최근 들어 많이 활발해지고 있지만 아직은 다양하고 많은 분야에서 투자가 이루어지지 않고 있다. 이런 맥락에서 본 연구는 최신 미얀마 통계자료 및 국내외 연구 중심의 조사 방법을 통하여 미얀마의 경제 거시적 변화에 따른 한국의 투자 및 진출에 관한 시사점을 고찰하고자 한다. 연구한 결과는 최근 미얀마는 초기 발전 단계에 있으며 많은 사회 기반 시설에 관련 프로젝트로 철도, 도로, 통신, 건설업 등에 대한 수요가 많아지지만 비교적 투자 규모가 크다. 한편으로 섬유, 봉제 분야는 비교적 투자 규모도 적고 수출촉진, 제3국 수출 확대, 저 임금 노동력 등을 활용할 수 있을 것이다. 다만 수출촉진이나 저임금 노동력 활용을 위해서 미얀마 시장 진출한 기업은 향후 미얀마 내수시장 확보 어려움을 겪을 수도 있다는 점을 유의해야한다. 경기 성장 초기 과정에서 발생하는 수요로 교역이 많아짐으로 무역 분야에 대한 진출도 가능하지만 미얀마는 아직 교통 및 유통 시장에 관한 인프라 부족으로 선정된 품목이나 상품에 대한 유통 비용에 대한 사전 조사가 필요할 것이다. 진출 전략에 대해서 미얀마 수출 지향적 산업, 수입대체산업, 노동집약산업 등에 무게를 두고 있으며 의미는 단순 노동을 가공하여 대량 생산과 수출이 가능한 품목이나 제품에 대한 우선순위를 두고 있다는 것이다. 진출 기업의 목적에 따라 다르다는데 단순한 노동집약적 산업 투자할 경우 합작 투자가 유리한 반면에 기업의 기술력을 바탕으로 진출 할 경우 단독 투자가 적당하다고 본다.