• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.421-431
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• 2021

This study investigates the empirical linkages between ASEAN countries' institutional quality and financial inclusion using country data from 2008-2019. In this paper, six governance indicators from the World Governance index are used to measure the impact of institutions on financial inclusion. The PCA method's financial inclusion index is constructed from 3 indicators: penetration, access, and usage: penetration, access, and usage with six indices respectively as the number of ATMs per 1000 km², the number of bank branches per 1000 km², the number of ATMs per 100,000 people and the number of bank branches for 100,000 adults, the ratio of credit to private to GDP, and the ratio of deposit to private to GDP. Regression analysis with the Generalized Moments method shows the positive impact of institutions and other control variables like GDP per capita, inflation, bank concentration, and human development index on financial inclusion. Therefore, this study recommends that the government and policymakers in countries pursue the financial inclusion agenda to pay attention to the financial and economic indicators and institutional factors. This is because many savers, borrowers, and investors may not be protected when financial contracts are enforced or breaches occur in an environment where economic, legal, judicial, and political institutions are weak, such as in ASEAN countries.

• 기술경영경제학회:학술대회논문집
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• 기술경영경제학회 2004년도 제24회 동계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.222-245
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• 2004

This paper has an intention of proposing useful parametric tables of each industry group within Korea. These parametric tables can be insightful criteria for those who are dealing with the exact valuation of company, technology or industry through Real Option Analysis (ROA) since the identification of the movement of underlying asset is the very first step to be done. To give the exact estimations of parameters and the most preferred model in each industry group, we cover topics on ROA, stochastic process, and parametric estimation method like Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). Additionally, specific industry groups, such as, Internet service group and mobile telecommunication service group defined independently in this paper are also examined in terms of its property of movement with the suggesting of the most fitting stochastic model.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.635-641
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• 2021

This article analyzes the factors affecting income inequality in Vietnam, with data from 63 provinces and cities collected from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam from 2010 to 2018. The article will firstly build a research model to identify factors affecting income inequality. Then, it uses the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) method to evaluate the effect of factors on income inequality in Vietnam. The empirical estimate result shows that, in the period from 2010 to 2018, the factors such as the proportion of the working employees, income per capita, and inflation have positive effects on the Gini coefficient. That is, when these factors increase, there will be negative effects on improving income inequality in Vietnam. Conversely, when the factors such as the proportion of the literate adults, the proportion of the urban population, and population density increase they will have a positive impact on improving income inequality in Vietnam during this period. The estimated coefficients satisfied the sign expectation except the proportion of the literate adults. It means that, in Vietnam, the increase and more equilibrium in educational attainment balance the distribution of income and bring an improvement in income inequality.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.446-449
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• 2000

A direct RTI(Rotation and translation invariant) fingerprint identification is proposed using the GCMs(generalized complex moments) and Gabor filter-based features from the grey level fingerprint around core point. The core point is located as reference point for the translation invariant matching. And its symmetry axis is detected for the rotation invariant matching from its neighboring region centered at the core point. And then, fingerprint is divided into non-overlapping blocks with respect to the core point and, in contrast to minutiae-based method using various processing steps, features are directly extracted from the blocked grey level fingerprint using Gabor filter, which provides information contained in a particular orientation in the image. The Proposed fingerprint identification is based on the Euclidean distance of the corresponding Gabor features between the input and the template fingerprint. Experiments are conducted on 300 ${\times}$ 300 fingerprints obtained from the CMOS sensor with 500 dpi resolution, and the proposed method could obtain 97% identification rate.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.21-44
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• 2022

Purpose - This study quantifies sources of trade balance dynamics over the business cycle in Korea. Specifically, we quantify the relative importance of domestic and foreign factors on trade balance dynamics using a small open economy real business cycle (SOE-RBC) model and provide policy implications for stabilization policies. Aggregate productivity and interest rate spreads are considered domestic factors affecting the trade balance. A world interest rate (the U.S. interest rate) is considered a foreign factor. Design/methodology - Following Neumeyer and Perri (2005), we build the SOE-RBC model with three types of shocks: aggregate productivity, interest rate spread, and world interest shocks. The model is estimated by the generalized method of moments (GMM) using relevant business cycle statistics. The estimated model is used for quantifying the relative importance of domestic and foreign factors on trade balance dynamics in Korea. Findings - Our main findings can be summarized as follows: 85.64% of the trade balance fluctuations in Korea are explained by domestic factors, the remaining 14.35% by foreign factors. Particularly, trade balance dynamics are mostly accounted for by the change in aggregate productivity shocks (85.58%). World interest rate shocks considerably explain trade balance (14.35%), whereas the role of interest rate spread shocks that represent domestic risks is limited (0.08%). Although aggregate productivity is key in explaining trade balance dynamics in Korea, interest rates still have an essential role. This is because aggregate productivity changes induce interest rate spread variations and, thus, the trade balance significantly. The results suggest that government policies mitigating fluctuations in aggregate productivity would be effective for stabilization policies in Korea by reducing the trade balance volatility. Originality/value - Existing studies on the emerging market business cycle examine mostly Latin American countries, and the main object of the studies is the volatility of consumption rather than trade balance dynamics. Conversely, our study examines Korea rather than Latin American countries. Additionally, we examine sources of trade balance dynamics, which are relatively more important in Korea, rather than those of the volatility of consumption. Hence, we estimate the model to explicitly match moments related to trade balance in the data.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제45권8호
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• pp.827-837
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• 2012

확률강우량은 수공구조물의 설계에 있어 중요한 역할을 하며 이러한 확률강우량의 산정은 일반적으로 일변량 빈도해석을 수행하고 최적의 확률분포형을 찾아냄으로써 계산된다. 하지만 일변량 빈도해석은 수행 시 지속기간이 제한적이라는 단점이 있으며 이를 보완하기 위해 본 연구에서는 이변량 빈도해석을 수행하였다. 다변량 모형인 copula 모형 중3가지의 분포형을 이용하여 5개 지점의 연최대강우사상에 대해 이 변량 빈도해석을 수행하였으며 확률변수로 강우량과 지속기간을 사용하였다. 주변분포형은 강우량에는 Gumbel (GUM), generalized logistic (GLO) 분포형, 지속기간에는 generalized extreme value (GEV), GUM, GLO 분포형이사용됐으며 copula 모형은Frank, Joe, Gumbel-Hougaard 모형을 이용하였다. 주변분포형의 매개변수는 확률가중모멘트법을 이용하여 추정하였으며, copula 모형의 매개변수는 준모수방법인 의사최우도법을 사용하여 구하였다. 이를 통해 얻어진 확률강우량을 주변분포형과 copula 모형을바꾸어가며 비교하였다. 그 결과, 주변분포형의 종류에 따른 변화에서는 지속기간의 분포형에는 크게 영향을 받지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 강우량의 분포형에 따라서는 조금씩 차이가 났으며 강우량의 분포형이 GUM일 경우, GLO일 때에 비해 재현기간이 증가할수록 확률강우량이 증가하는 경향이 두드러졌다. Copula 모형별로 비교해보았을 때, Joe, Gumbel-Hougaard 모형은 비슷한 경향을 나타내었으며 Frank 모형은 재현기간의 증가에 따른 확률강우량의 증가가 강하게 나타냈다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 부산지방기상청 장기 강수량 자료(1973-2007)를 이용하여 부산지역 확률강수량 및 이에 따른 재현 기간을 산정하였다. 확률강수량 산정에 있어서 확률가중모멘트법을 이용하여 매개변수를 추정하였고, $x^2$ 및 PPCC 검정을 통해 적합성분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과 최적의 확률분포형으로 GLO 모형을 채택하였다. 또한 AWS 자료를 이용하여 부산지역 확률강수량 분포도를 작성하였다. 6시간 지속강수량에 있어서 245.2 mm의 강수량이 100년 마다 발생할 수 있으며, 280.6 mm가 200년에 한번 정도 나타날 수 있다. 확률강수량 분포도 결과 1시간 지속강수일 경우 동래구에서 높은 값을 가지며, 3시간 지속강수는 부산연안 전반에 걸쳐 높게 나타나고 있다. 6시간 지속강수량일 경우는 부산진과 양산일대에서 높은 값을 나타내며 12시간 지속강수의 경우 남동연안지역과 웅상 일대에서 높은 값을 보이는 특징이 나타났다.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.482-490
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• 2008

연안 및 항만구조물의 설계에서 최극 고조위는 매우 중요한 환경인자이다. 특히, 최극 고조위의 분포정보는 최근 부각되고 있는 신뢰성 설계에 필수적인 요소이다. 본 연구에서는 국립해양조사원에서 제시한 한국연안 주요 23개 검조소의 최극조위자료를 이용하여 극치분포 분석을 수행하였다. 특성분석에 사용된 극치분포함수는 Generalized Extreme Value, Gumbel 그리고 Weibull 분포이며, 각 분포함수의 매개변수는 모멘트법, 최우도법 그리고 확률가중모멘트법 등 3가지방법으로 추정하였다. 또한, 극치분포함수의 적합성은 95% 신뢰도 수준으로 $X^2$ 및 K-S 검정을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 23개 검조소의 최극 고조위는 Gumbel 분포형이 가장 적합한 모형으로 파악되었으며, 최적 추정된 매개변수 및 재현기간별 최극 고조위 정보를 제시하였다. 심 등(1992)이 제시한 인천, 제주, 여수, 부산, 묵호에 대한 극치해면값은 본 논문에서 산정한 결과에 비하여 작게 나타났다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.373-385
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• 2021

The objective of the study is to empirically investigate the impact of bank capital on the lending behavior of Vietnamese commercial banks from 2007 to 2019. Lending behavior is captured by two dimensions, including the quantity (loan growth) and quality (credit risk) of loans. Instead of investigating loan growth and credit risk separately, we combine these two aspects in our study and further develop the interaction term between capital buffers and credit risk to capture the asymmetric impact. We apply the dynamic model (regressed by the generalized method of moments) and the static models (regressed using the fixed effects, random effects, and the pooled regression approach) to perform regressions. The results show that banks with higher capital ratios tend to expand lending more, while the risk of credit portfolios is controlled at lower levels at these banks. Further analysis reveals that credit risk mitigates some aspects of the relationship between bank capital and loan expansion. The patterns remain robust across alternative measures and econometric techniques. The study provides insightful policy implications for bank managers and regulators in the process of upgrading capital resources to ensure the safety and soundness of the banking industry in an emerging country.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.27-40
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• 2019

The study examines the effects of growth opportunities, debt maturity and liquidity risk on leverage, making use of a large panel of Chinese listed firms. Research on capital structure has broadened its scope from a single capital structure decision (the debt/equity choice) to various attributes of the debt in firms' capital structure. We use the system Generalized Method of Moments estimator to control for unobserved heterogeneity and the potential endogeneity of regressors. We find a negative relationship between growth opportunities and leverage. Further, we find that while the proportion of short-term debt attenuates the negative effect of growth opportunities on leverage, it negatively affects leverage as predicted by the liquidity risk hypothesis. When we distinguish between state owned firms and private controlled firms, we find evidence that these effects are only relevant to private controlled firms. However, our analysis indicates that the economic implication of liquidity risk effect is much lower for Chinese firms than that observed in the literature for US firms. Our study suggests that these differences can be explained by differences in the institutional environment in which firms operate. This finding related to Diamond's (1991) liquidity risk hypothesis extends our understanding of the relationship between liquidity risk and the debt maturity choice.