• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.317-342
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• 2017

The US dollar has kept as a position of key currency in the global economy in the changing international monetary system where the euro was introduced to some states of the EU in 1999. It is an evidence of inertia of the US dollar as a key currency. Our previous study (Ogawa and Muto, 2017b) conducted empirical analysis to investigate effects of several events on inertia of the US dollar. One of our findings was that the introduction of the euro increased utility of euro while utility of US dollar was kept unchanged. This paper examines the effects of the global financial crisis and the euro zone crisis as well as the introduction of the euro on the utility of the Japanese yen. The introduction of the euro significantly decreased the utility of the Japanese yen. It indicates that the introduction of the euro increased the utility of the euro while reducing the utility of the Japanese yen rather than the utility of the US dollar. The utility of the Japanese yen has significantly decreased while the global financial crisis and the euro zone crisis occurred. The Japanese yen has a declining trend in terms of its utility over time in the changing international monetary system.

• 수산경영론집
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.75-87
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• 1985

In 1977, the United States enacted the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MFCMA), which established U.S. Fisheries Conservation Zone (FCZ). The MFCMA grants preference to U.S. harvesters over foreign fleets in the U.S. FCZ. At present, the large stocks of groundfish in the U.S. FCZ off the Alaska coast have been under-utilized in the U.S. domestic market and the fisheries for these groundfish are dominated by foreign fleets. Hence, expected benefits from replacing foreign fisheries by domestic fleets will accrue to the U.S. fishery only by exporting the increased U.S. products to foreign countries. U.S. exports may be dependent on the price levels in the foreign markets raised by the reduced foreign catch from U,S. waters. In this paper, Japanese demand models for Alaska groundfish were estimated. The derived coefficient from the estimated models suggest that a decrease in the Japanese landings from the U.S. FCZ by a thousand metric tons will increase pollock price by 0.017 Yen/kg, cod price by 0.351 Yen/kg, flatfish by 1.074 Yen/kg, and ocean perch by 1.347 Yen/kg in the Japanese market. These results based on percentage would increase 19 percent for pollock price, 11 percent for cod price, 40 percent for flatfish, and 2 percent for ocean perch price.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.257-267
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• 2019

The paper aims to test long-term and short-term causality from four exchange rates, the Korean won/$US, the Korean won/Euro, the Korean won/Japanese yen, and the Korean won/Chinese yuan, to the Korea Composite Stock Price Index in the presence of several macroeconomic variables using monthly data from January 1986 to June 2018. The results of Johansen cointegration tests show that there exists at least one cointegrating equation, which indicates that long-run causality from an exchange rate to the Korean stock market will exist. The results of vector error correction estimates show that: for long-term causality, the coefficient of the error correction term is significant with a negative sign, that is, long-term causality from exchange rates to the Korean stock market is observed. For short-term causality, the coefficient of the Japanese yen exchange rate is significant with a positive sign, that is, short-term causality from the Japanese yen exchange rate to the Korean stock market is observed. The coefficient of the financial crises i.e. 1997-1999 Asian financial crisis and 2007-2008 global financial crisis on the endogenous variables in the model and the Korean economy is significant. The result indicates that the financial crises have considerably affected the Korean economy, especially a negative effect on money supply.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.385-412
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• 2009

본 연구는 일본기업의 해외진출 결정요인 및 영향력 분석에 있어 투자국인 일본 및 일본기업의 경제적 환경 변화(요인)을 선행적으로 분석한다. 최근 일본기업의 해외진출의 특징은 과거 "노동집약적 산업"이라는 점과 "사양 산업"의 해외투자라는 전통적인 형태를 유지하고 있다. 또한 중소 제조업의 경우 "비용 절약형"이라는, 그리고 대기업은 "시장 확보형"의 투자요인이 상대적으로 중요했다. 반면에 비제조업 대기업의 특징은 "전문가 확보 및 시장 관련형"이, 그리고 중소 비제조업 경우 "사회자본의 정비와 수준"이 해외진출에 주요한 요인으로 작용한다. 한편 1990-96년과 1998-2006년까지 일본기업의 해외진출에 관한 요인분석의 결과, 공통적으로 적용되는 요인은 엔환율, 금리, 임금, 기업이익, 설비투자, 소비지출이었다. 특히 회귀분석의 결과, 1990-96년에는 "저금리"의 급변이 일본기업의 해외진출에 주요하게 작용했고, 1998-2006년에는 일본의 "엔환율"이 중요한 요인으로 추출되었다. 즉, 1990-96년까지 엔화가치의 폭등에 따른 충격은 1998-2006년에 이르러 서서히 일본경제 내부에 체화 및 완충되었고 볼 수 있다. 반면에 1998-2006년에는 엔화가치의 상승 요인과 더불어 일본정부의 해외지원정책과 "저금리"하에서 일본기업의 해외진출은 가속화되었다고 말할 수 있다.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.61-87
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• 2020

Five diffusion models are estimated using three different foreign exchange rates to find an appropriate model for each. Daily spot exchange rates expressed as the prices of 1 euro, 1 British pound and 100 Japanese yen in US dollars, respectively denoted by USD/EUR, USD/GBP, and USD/100JPY, are used. The maximum likelihood estimation method is implemented after deriving an approximate log-transition density function (log-TDF) of the diffusion processes because the true log-TDF is unknown. Of the five models, the most general model is the best fit for the USD/GBP, and USD/100JPY exchange rates, but it is not the case for the case of USD/EUR. Although we could not find any evidence of the mean-reverting property for the USD/EUR exchange rate, the USD/GBP, and USD/100JPY exchange rates show the mean-reversion behavior. Interestingly, the volatility function of the USD/EUR exchange rate is increasing in the exchange rate while the volatility functions of the USD/GBP and USD/100Yen exchange rates have a U-shape. Our results reveal that more care has to be taken when determining a diffusion model for the exchange rate. The results also imply that we may have to use a more general diffusion model than those proposed in the literature when developing economic theories for the behavior of the exchange rate and pricing foreign currency options or derivatives.

• 한국고분자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국고분자학회 2006년도 IUPAC International Symposium on Advanced Polymers for Emerging Technologies
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• pp.60-61
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• 2006

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) promotes R&D that individual private sector enterprises can not undertake by themselves. To do this, it utilizes an extensive network that supports cooperation between industries, universities, and public research organizations. NEDO's government-funded R&D budget for FY2005 totals approximately 148.8 billion yen. Fuel cells and hydrogen technology development project is one of NEDO's emphasizing projects. The budget size was ${\yen}$20.8 billion, corresponding to about 60% of annual expenditure of Japanese government for fuel cells in FY2005. These projects consist of 8 programs as follows.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.412-420
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• 2019

이 연구는 일본 경찰의 실종자 대응의 문제점을 파악하고 일본탐정의 사례를 살펴본 후 우리나라 공인 탐정법 제정의 근거로 제안하기 위한 목적을 가진 연구이다. 이 연구의 완성을 위하여 일본 장기미제 실종자 실태와 일본 경찰의 대응 관련 선행연구 및 자료를 통하여 살펴보았다. 이렇게 확보된 자료를 바탕으로 연구의 목적에 맞게 연구를 진행하였다. 일본에서는 매년 8만 여 명의 실종신고가 발생하는데 대부분이 당일 혹은 일주일 이내에 소재파악이 되지만 종종 이 기간을 넘어 실종상태가 해소되지 않는 경우가 있고 심지어 3년 이상 소재파악이 되지 않는 장기미제 실종자가 발생하기도 한다. 이러한 문제에 대하여 일본 경찰은 초동대응의 중요성을 강조하며 적극적인 실종자 수사를 실시하고 있으나 1달 이상이 되는 장기미제 실종사건의 경우 가족들은 경찰의 실종자 수사에 매달리지 않고 탐정에 조사를 의뢰한다. 일본의 탐정들은 의뢰인으로부터 재화를 제공받고 의뢰인이 요구하는 맞춤형 치안서비스를 제공한다. 실종자 조사와 관련하여 일본 탐정은 10만 엔에서 70만 엔 정도의 금액을 받고 비자발적 자발적 실종자에 대한 조사를 통하여 실종자를 찾아주고 있다. 이러한 일본 탐정의 활동은 우리나라의 공인 탐정제도 도입의 필요성을 증명하고 있다. 현재 우리나라에서 발생한 수 많은 실종자들이 아직도 가족에게 소재파악이 되지 않고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 공인 탐정제도를 도입함으로써 실종자를 찾고 경찰의 업무 과부하 문제해결 및 양질의 일자리 창출에도 큰 도움이 될 수 있다.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.115-140
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• 2014

In light of today's socioeconomic scenario, life management skills, especially economic life management skills are essential. This study focuses on a household account book as a tool for economic education. This study aims to assess the characteristics of household economic management in terms of the effect of keeping a household account book on Japanese in their 20s to 30s in a single-family household. It also compares the awareness of the change in economic life behavior between before and after keeping a household account book. Moreover, it analyzes the determinants of continuity in keeping a household account book. This Study used data obtained from an Internet survey of household account books by the Institute for Research on Household Economics in Japan. The study sample consist of 1,255 Japanese in their 20s to 30s who kept household account records for a month as well as preliminary and post-survey information about these people. The results were as follows. First, the average annual income of the subjects was at most 3,000,000 yen; their level of financial assets was at most 1,000,000 yen, their economic life behavior became future-oriented after practice of keep a household account book in that they established a budget and savings plan. Second, keeping a household account book had a positive effect on the people that they have budget and spending plans for the next year. Finally, factors that affected the continuity in keeping a household account book included the experience of keeping one from before.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.9-20
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• 2018

Global rating agencies, such as Moody's and S&P, have assigned credit ratings to corporate bonds issued by Japanese firms since 1980s. Local Japanese rating agencies, such as R&I and JCR, have more market share than the global raters. We examine the yield spreads of 1,050 yen-denominated corporate bonds issued by financial firms in Japan from 1998 to 2014 and find no evidence that bonds rated by at least one global agency are associated with a significant reduction in the cost of debt as compared to those rated by only local rating agencies. Unlike non-financial firms, the reputation effect of global rating agencies does not exist for Japanese financial firms. We also observe that firms with less information asymmetry are more likely to acquire ratings from Moody's or S&P. Additionally, the firm's financial profile does not affect its choice to seek out ratings from global raters. Our findings are contradictory to those by Han, Pagano, and Shin (2012), who employ bonds issued by non-financial firms in Japan. Our conjecture is that the asymmetric nature of financial firms makes investors less likely to depend on a credit risk assessment by rating agencies in determining the yields of new bonds.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제47권
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• pp.357-377
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• 2010

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries(MAFF) of Japan established the aim which exports the agriculture, forestry and Fisheries products amounting to a trillion Yen until 2013 in 2004, endeavoring to realize the aim in strengthening both overseas publicity activities and domestic product system. Such changes means that the Japanese agriculture is exchanging defence into attack and gives a important meaning to our agricultures which have a similar agriculture base as Japan. The countermeasures for agricultural products export promotion by MAFF is greeting a 5th year now and obtains a considerable result in agricultural products exports and the export item. Meantime, There are also opinions that the Japanese agriculture has to make efforts to cut the product cost by a large margin in order to prepares a competitive power. we have to consider the counter-measure which will be able to accommodate harmoniously both of two facts that first, Japanese Export Promotion Strategy for agricultural products is giving a hope in the Japanese rural society which have been considered that remaking will be impossible until now, and secondly, the agricultural reform which the cutting of cost and price of agricultural products will be possible in has to be promoted.