• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.161-206
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• 2013

Since the global financial crisis in 2008, the world economy has been suffering from the Great Recession characterized by high and persistent unemployment as well as drastic fall in asset prices. Real business cycle theory or new-Keynesian economics which has been the dominant paradigm in macroeconomics for the last four decades is unable to explain the high and persistent unemployment during the Great Recession. This implies that the economics of Keynes should be taken seriously again as a tool to explain the Great Recession. Farmer (2012) proposes a new way of interpreting the economics of Keynes by providing it with a solid micro-foundation based on labor markets with search. According to Farmer (2012), aggregate economic activity independently depends on the long-term self-fulfilling expectations about the stock prices. As a consequence, the government or the central bank should implement a policy that influences the public's confidence about the stock market. For an open economy like the Korean economy, it is not only stock price but also the price of asset such as house that matters more for the aggregate economic activity. Households in the Korean economy hold more than 70 percent of their wealth in the form of real estate asset, especially housing asset. This makes the public's confidence about the future prices of houses even more important in explaining the business cycles of the Korean economy. Policymakers should implement policies to improve the confidence of households about the housing market to recover from the recession caused by a fall in house prices. Little theoretical work has been done in explaining fluctuations in the aggregate economic activity from the point of house prices. This paper develops a small open economy model with traded and non-traded capital based on Farmer (2012) and shows that the aggregate economic activity also independently depends on the households' self-fulfilling expectations about the future prices of non-traded asset such as houses.

• 정보학연구
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.25-37
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• 1998

경영전략수립에 있어서 자본비용 평가는 중요한 의미를 갖는다. 이는 자본비용은 기업가치 평가 및 새로운 Project 심사에 매우 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있기 때문이다. 상장기업의 경우 자본비용은 일반적으로 자본자산가 격결정모형(capital asset pricing model : CAPM)에서 주식시장을 이용한 베타($\beta$)를 구함으로서 쉽게 구할 수 있다. 그러나 비상장기업은 주가를 이용할 수 없다. 따라서 비상장기업의 경우 주가에 가장큰 영향을 미치는 회계정보가 주가를 대신하여 자본비용 계산시 유용한 베타를 구할 수 있는지에 대한 많은 연구가 계속하여 이루어지고 있다. 이러한 사실에 비추어 본 연구는 재무정보와 시장의 체계적 위험(또는 시장베타)과 어떤 관련성이 있는가를 분석하는데 초점을 두고 있으며 특히 순수접근기법(Uure-play technique)과 회계정보에 의한 기본적접근방법(fundamental approach)을 이용하여 베타가 어떻게 추정되는지를 분석했다. 그리고 캐나다 자본시장에서 재무정보와 주가의 상호관련성을 실증 분석한 Patterson의 베타예측모형을 추가적으로 검토했다. 한편 향후 이 논문은 Patterson의 베타예측모델을 가지고 우리 나라에 적용 재무정보와 체계적위험간의 관계를 실증분석하기 위한 선행연구라는 점을 밝히고 싶다.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.185-208
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• 2004

Production of goods and services always necessarily depends on the use of knowledge. The knowledge intensity of production , however, has increased manifold in the last two decades or so. This is clearly indicated by the rise in the share of knowledge intensive products, which are traded. The production and export of these advanced products are not confined to developed countries alone, but also among developing countries. But in the latter there is considerable concentration of it in a handful of countries primarily in the Asian region. Knowledge underlying production, whether industrial or non-industrial, embodies two types of knowledge: formal and non-formal. In this paper we are entirely concerned with the financing of the creation of formalized knowledge in the context of two similar Asian developing countries, namely Singapore and Malaysia. Three broad types of financial instruments are considered: research grants, tax incentives and venture capital. Both the countries are shown to be having very similar financial instruments for promoting innovation. The timing of these instruments is quite similar too. But one country has performed much better than the other. The main argument of the paper is that while financial instruments are a necessary input for innovation, the sufficient condition lies in the supply of a sufficient quantity of scientists and engineers.