• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.62-67
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• 2003

An important aspect of the study of power system markets involves the assessment of strategic behavior of participants for maximizing their profits. In models of imperfect competition of a deregulated electricity system, the key task is to find the Nash equilibrium. In this paper, the bimatrix approach for finding Nash equilibria in electricity markets is investigated. This approach determines pure and mixed equilibria using the complementarity pivot algorithim. The mixed equilibrium in the matrix approach has the equal number of non-zero property. This property makes it difficult to reproduce a smooth continuous distribution for the mixed equilibrium. This paper proposes an algorithm for adjusting the quantization value of discretization to reconstruct a continuous distribution from a discrete one.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2009

One of the major challenges confronting a multiservice electric utility is the establishment of the right prices for its services. The key objectives of particular pricing schemes are reasonableness of company earnings, economic efficiency, the responsiveness of supply and of the allocation of sources to the desires of consumers, and maintenance of some degree of competition. This paper proposes a value-based pricing mechanism amenable to the current deregulation situation in electricity market allowing service differentiation. The proposed pricing mechanism can be implemented in a nodal auction model, and can also be applied to direct load control.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2023

Pricing, as one of the most important aspects of a business, should be taken seriously. Whatever affects a company's pricing system tends to affect its profits and losses as well. Currently, many manufacturing companies fix product prices manually by members of an organization's management team. However, due to the imperfect nature of humans, an extremely low or high price may be fixed, which is detrimental to the company in either case. This paper proposes the development of a fuzzy-based price expert system (Expert Fuzzy Price (EFP)) for manufacturing companies. This system will be able to recommend appropriate prices for products in manufacturing companies based on four major pricing strategic goals, namely: Product Demand, Price Skimming, Competition Price, and Target population.

• 한국항만경제학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항만경제학회 2006년도 국제학술대회
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• pp.1-12
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• 2006

As national economies globalize, demand for intercontinental container shipping services is growing rapidly, providing a potential economic boon for the countries and communities that provide port services. On the promise of profits, many governments are investing heavily in port infrastructure, leading to a possible glut in port capacity, driving down prices for port services and eliminating profits as ports compete for business. Further, existing ports are making strategic investments to protect their market share, increasing the chance new ports will be overcapitalized and unprofitable. Governments and port researchers need a tool for understanding how local competition in their region will affect demand for port services at their location, and thus better assess the profitability of a prospective port. We propose to develop such a tool by extending our existing simulation model of global container traffic to incorporate demand-side shipper preferences and supply-side strategic responses by incumbent ports to changes in the global port network, including building new ports, scaling up existing ports, and unexpected port closures. We will estimate shipper preferences over routes, port attributes and port services based on US and international shipping data, and redesign the simulation model to maximize the shipper's revealed preference functions rather than simply minimize costs. As demand shifts, competing ports will adjust their pricing (short term) and infrastructure (long term) to remain competitive or defend market share, a reaction we will capture with a game theoretic model of local monopoly that will predict changes in port characteristics. The model's hypotheses will be tested in a controlled laboratory experiment tailored to local port competition in Asia, which will also serve to demonstrate the subtle game theoretic concepts of imperfect competition to a policy and industry audience. We will apply the simulation model to analyze changes in global container traffic in three scenarios: addition of a new large port in the US, extended closure of an existing large port in the US, and cooperative and competitive port infrastructure development among Korean partner countries in Asia.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.33-39
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• 1984

The pattern of economic integration in the broiler industry can be grouped into three categories; 1) non-integration, 2) quasi-integration and 3) complete-integration. It is general to see that the non-integration is quite common under the market conditions of perfect competition, whereas the complete integration is more preferable in the imperfect competition. The quasi-integration, however, exists at all phases where the complete integration is not fully formed and implemented, but the non-integration has begun to alter its nature into integrated structure. The broiler industry in Korea has been characterized with the typically non-integrated independent operation, resulting in considerable price fluctuation and unstable industry as a whole. As a means of solving out the problem stemed from the non-integrated, growers and agribusinessmen involved in broiler industry have tended to develope the regular customer relationship prevailed between two parties. In fact, it has been practiced for years that most growers have been dealt with factor suppliers or processors on a regular basis for advantages of better price and quality, useful information, management help and so forth. Under the customary transaction, no formal contract has been made due to simple buyers and sellers relations, not like the one used to be performed in the form of contractual agreement. The broiler industry realizes the direction to go ahead toward the formal arrangement of integrated system from current regular transactions. As more Vowers, suppliers and processors recognize the necessity of it, the non-integrated industry appears to become the partially integrated by developing the existing customer relationship in such a way that functions of integrators are. further expanded and better organized. As a result, a type of quasi-integration started to show up by an integrator dominated in the field of hatching, feedmilling, dressing and by a grower's coop, It is concluded, therefore, that the evolution of quasi-integration in Korea's broiler industry is continuously taking place, implying the close approach to the completely integrated broiler production and marketing system.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.641-656
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• 2022

본 연구는 브랜드와 브랜딩에 초점을 맞춰 국내 최대 음식배달 서비스 플랫폼 배달의민족(배민)의 성장과 시장지배 과정을 '오리지네이션' 관점에서 분석한다. 배민은 플랫폼화된 모빌리티 서비스의 한 가지 사례로, '오리지네이션'은 그러한 서비스 브랜드에 적합한 개념적, 이론적 탐구 프레임으로 간주된다. 여러 가지 한계를 표출한 신고전적 접근과는 달리, 오리지네이션은 오늘날의 플랫폼화된 모빌리티 서비스에서 나타나는 불완전경쟁, 불완전정보, 독과점적 '브랜드 지대'의 현안을 다루는 대안적 프레임으로서 유용하기 때문이다. 배민 브랜드의 오리지네이션 분석은 다양한 텍스트 자료에 근거해 이루어졌고, 분석에서는 배민의 사회·공간적 일대기에 결부된 담론적, 상징적 측면에 특히 주목했다. 이를 통해, '민족성'에 기초한 국가적 오리지네이션이 배민 브랜드와 브랜딩의 중요한 축임을 확인했다. 다른 한편으로, 브랜드 소유주로서 배민이 촉진하고 소비자가 동참하는 장소기반의 오리지네이션 형태도 파악했다. 그러나 이러한 지리적 결합과 오리지네이션은 온전하게 정착되지 못한 것으로 보인다. 초국적기업에 합병되고 금융화 과정에 노출되면서, 기존의 오리지네이션은 심각한 도전적 상황에 놓이게 되었고 브랜드 반달리즘(vandalism)이나 반브랜드 운동에 대한 취약성도 높아졌다. 이러한 오리지네이션의 위기적 상황은 오늘날 '플랫폼 자본주의'가 조성한 모순과 연관되는 것으로 보인다.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.805-828
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• 2010

미국과 일부 EU 국가처럼 국내에서도 신재생에너지 보급 확산을 위해 시장기능을 강화하는 제도로서 신재생에너지 의무할당제(RPS)를 2012년 이후 도입할 예정이다. RPS의 도입을 통해 에너지 사업자에게 일정비율의 신재생에너지 공급을 의무화함으로써 신재생에너지 보급 확대에 기여한다는 것이다. 본 논문은 신재생에너지 의무할당제도의 도입에 따른 경제적 파급효과를 일반연산균형모형(CGE)을 이용한 정량적 분석을 통해 살펴보았다. 불완전 경쟁시장 가정 하에 내생적 성장모형(endogenous growth theory)에 기초한 CGE 모형을 이용하여 분석한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. RPS 제도는 물량을 규제하기 때문에 목표량을 오차 없이 달성할 수 있다는 장점을 지니고 있다. 신재생에너지의 목표량이 정확히 달성됨에 따라 보다 큰 기술 확산 효과를 기대할 수 있다. 그러나 의무적으로 신재생에너지를 공급함에 따라 투자비용이 상승하여 중단기적으로 GDP가 감소할 가능성이 존재한다. 결국 장기적인 관점에서 신재생에너지의 보급을 확대하고 경제성장을 견인하는 신성장 동력으로 활용하고자 한다면 RPS 제도를 도입하는 것이 바람직하다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.61-73
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• 2021

Purpose: The transition from a traditional to a modern food distribution system induces several adjustments on the supply side since supermarkets must collect food on a larger scale and with higher quality standards. This situation becomes a real challenge for small scale farmers to access supply in a modern distribution channel. This gives rise to an original solution: supplying supermarkets through farmer associations or cooperatives. Based on this context of Vietnam linking to the case of distribution science, the paper proposes an industrial organization model of the food processing system in developing countries. The model presents the competitive relationship between two competing distribution systems: a traditional and a modern one. The former is composed of several retailers that sell their products on the traditional market while the latter is based on cooperatives that collect food and negotiate with supermarkets. The current study is to discuss the conditions under which the evolution of the food distribution system occurs by using the proposed model. Research design, data, and methodology: Based on the proposed model, the study explored the quantity flow from small producers to consumers through a Nash equilibrium and address the question of farmer repartition by a free-entry equilibrium. Results: The result shows that there is a unique positive equilibrium in the food market with participation of cooperative associations; Since farmers serve cooperative associations, they not only receive quantity incentive prices but also share profits within their organization. Conclusions: This study shows a unique distribution equilibrium where the profits of farmers working for middlemen and cooperatives are maximized. Further insights were discussed.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.131-144
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• 2019

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to investigate market power of soybeans exported by the United States to Korea. Particularly, this paper considered dichotomous characteristics of genetically modified (GM) soybeans and non-GM soybeans and conducted empirical analysis of these two segregated soybean markets to understand key tenets of market power in international soybean trade. Design/methodology - The difference in market power between GM and non-GM soybeans was analyzed using Residual Demand Elasticity (RDE) and Residual Supply Elasticity (RSE) models over the period of 2008~2018. RDE and RSE models under an imperfect competition condition were used to estimate market margins and determine whether GM and non-GM exporters or importers exercised market power in the destination market. Findings - Empirical results suggested that the U.S. had a market power on both GM and non-GM soybean exports. GM exports had greater market power than non-GM exports (14% vs. 9%). By contrast, Korea showed an inability to grab market margin or exert market power in soybean imports. Both export supply by the U.S. and import demand by Korea were found to be more responsive to price changes of GM soybeans than to prices changes of non-GM soybeans. This might be due to a self-interested, profit-seeking strategy by the exporter and many concerned consumers regarding potential adverse effects of GMOs in the importing country. Originality/value - This paper fills the literature gap by exploiting market power in both GM and non-GM markets with explicit consideration of price correlations between GM and non-GM soybeans in Korea. A number of existing studies have provided evidence for market power broadly embedded in international commodity trade. However, studies focusing on Korean markets are limited. No study has explored the country's soybean trade. Furthermore, the majority of prior studies have almost exclusively focused on the market power from a standpoint of exporting countries without discussing importers' market structure. This paper also sought to understand potentially distinguished patterns of market power between GM and non-GM markets.

• 기술혁신학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.47-72
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• 2007

아이디어는 소멸하지 않으며 지식생산과정에 수확체감의 법칙이 작용하지도 않는다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 사적측면만을 고려하는 단순한 내생적 성장모형에서는 지속적 경제성장이 달성되지 않게 된다. 그러나, 지식자본의 비전유성을 고려하여 이를 공적자본으로 간주하게 되면 지속적 경제성장은 달성될 수 있게 된다. 우리 경제에 대한 실증분석 결과가 지식의 공적자본으로서의 성격을 강하게 뒷받침함을 확인할 수 있다. 즉, 제품혁신 생산함수에 대한 모든 함수형태에서 지식자본이 사적재화라는 귀무가설을 모두 기각할 수 있다. 이상의 결과로부터 우리 경제는 제품혁신을 통해 지속적 경제성장을 달성할 수 있다는 시사점을 얻을 수 있다.