• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.468-479
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• 2012

In this paper, by a simple example it is shown that existing market-based criteria alone cannot completely and correctly evaluate the transmission network expansion from market view. However criteria congestion cost (CC) and social welfare (SW) together are able to correctly evaluate transmission network from market view and so they are adopted for the market-based transmission expansion planning. To simply indicate the limits of CC and SW social welfare percentage (SWP) and congestion cost percentage (CCP) are defined. To consider uncertainty in bids of market producers and consumers, and also indeterminacy in the acceptable boundaries of the SWP and CCP and their priorities, fuzzy assessment approach is used. In this approach, appropriate fuzzy sets and a fuzzy rule base are provided to evaluate the acceptability of an expansion plan. Then, the least-investment cost plan, which is acceptable in all probable scenarios, is searched. The proposed method is applied to an 8-bus system.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.158-170
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• 2009

This paper considers how the optimal export level is influenced by export risk, the degree of risk-averseness for exporting firms, and those firms' cost structure. In addition, export insurance is incorporated into some simple theoretical model to analyze the optimal export level. This paper applies genetic algorithm simulation to show that the exporting firms'risk-averseness do not affect the optimal export decision while export risk and cost function characteristic have relatively more significant effects on the optimal export level. Finally, our findings suggest that the most influential factor for the optimal export levels seems to be the monopoly power of exporting firms.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.214-219
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• 2006

Oligopoly differs from perfect competition and monopoly in that a firm must consider rival firms' behavior to determine its own best policy. This interrelationship among firms is the issue examined in this paper. In the oligopoly market, the complete information market means that each producer has full information about itself, the market, and its rivals. That is, each producer knows the market demand function, its own cost function and the cost functions of rivals. On the other hand, the incomplete information market means that in general each producer lacks full information about the market or its rivals. Here, we assume that each firm doesn't know the cost functions and the strategic biddings of its rivals. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze firm' strategic behaviors and equilibrium in an electricity market with incomplete information. In the case study, the complete information market and the incomplete market are compared at the Nash Equilibrium from the viewpoints of market price, transaction quantities, consumer benefits, and Social Welfare.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.81-91
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• 2014

Widely spreading smart devices have become an important information sharing channel in everyday life. In particular, social networking services (SNS) are the hub for content creation and sharing. Users post their contents on SNS servers and receive contents of interest. Contents are delivered in either pull or push. Regarding delivery, cost and wait time are two important factors to be minimized, but they are in a trade-off relationship. The Push-N-scheme (PNS) and timeout-based push scheme (TPS) have been proposed for content delivery. PNS has an advantage in cost over TPS, whereas TPS has an edge in terms of the wait time over PNS. We propose a hybrid push scheme of PNS and TPS, called push-N-scheme with timeout (PNT), to balance the cost and the wait time. We evaluate PNT through simulations, with the results showing that PNT is effective in balancing PNS and TPS.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2020

Purpose - This paper studies the welfare impacts of behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD) when firms are asymmetric in quality improvement costs. Design/methodology/approach - To this end, we consider a differentiated duopoly model with an inherited market share, where firms first make quality decisions and then compete in prices according to the pricing scheme, namely, uniform pricing or BBPD. Findings - We show that BBPD increases social welfare relative to uniform pricing if the firms' cost gap is large enough. This is because BBPD induces more consumers to buy a high-quality product than under uniform pricing, and because a low-cost firm's profit loss from BBPD decreases as the cost difference increases. Research implications or Originality - Our analysis offers policy implications for markets where BBPD raises antitrust concerns, and quality competition prevails.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.33-42
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 분석대상 지역의 특성을 고려한 차량 배출물질의 사회적 비용 원단위 추정 모형을 구축하였고, 이를 바탕으로 분석 대상지역의 대기질 가치를 평가하기 위한 방법론을 제시하였다. 구축 모형은 편익이전(Benefit Transfer)기법을 활용한 것으로, 각 지역의 인구밀도와 녹지율이 설명변수로 반영되었다. 본 모형을 적용한 결과, 인구가 밀집되어 있는 서울 지역과 부산 지역에 대한 차량 배출물질의 사회적 비용 원단위는 전국 평균치보다 각각 18.68배, 10.71배 높은 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 최근의 녹색교통 정책에 대한 타당성을 판단함에 있어서 보다 신뢰도 있는 결과 도출에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.79-90
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• 2023

본 논문은 원자력발전소(원전) 사고에 의한 조기사망의 사회적 비용을 추정하기 위해 조건부가치측정법(Contingent Valuation Method, CVM)을 이용하여 통계적 생명가치(Value of a Statistical Life, VSL)를 추정한다. VSL 추정치는 약 35억 5천만 원이다. 이에 세계 원전 역사상 발생한 모든 사고 사망자수 약 181만 명을 곱하여 추정한 사회적 비용은 1,952조 원으로서 한국의 2022년 실질 GDP에 비견되는 수준이다. 연평균 조기사망자수와 사회적 비용은 각각 26,000명과 28조 원이다. 1987~2021년간 세계 화력발전소의 사고와 대기오염물질 배출로 인해 발생한 조기사망의 사회적 비용 추정치는 26,919조 원인데, 이는 미국의 2021년 GDP 규모에 상당하는 규모로서 9조 원을 기록한 원전의 약 3,000배에 달한다. 2021년 한 해만 보더라도, 화력발전소의 사회적 비용은 1,075조 원에 달하지만, 원전은 2,920억 원에 불과하다. 한국의 경우, 2050 탄소중립 정책의 영향으로 재생에너지 발전 비중이 증가할 것이므로, 화력발전 대비 원자력발전 비중을 증가시키는 에너지믹스를 제안한다. 본 논문은 또한 효율적인 에너지 정책을 담보하기 위해 CVM을 이용한 VSL 추정 연구를 지속적으로 축적할 필요가 있음을 강조한다.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.39-52
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to compare the economic burden and cost of child rearing, mainly between families with job-holding mothers and job-exit mothers. The sample consisted of 665 mothers with at least one child aged one year or less from the 2009 Panel Study on Korean Children. We found social capital reduced the child rearing costs for both job-holding and job-exit mothers, while community resources significantly reduced the costs of child rearing only for job-holding mothers. Based on these results, implications for family policy for families with young children are suggested.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.81-96
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• 2016

This study analyzes how breach fee under long-term contract and/or cap regulation on the breach fee can affect the impacts of "Mobile Device Distribution Improvement Act" on handset bundle price, average revenue per unit (ARPU), and social welfare. We conduct comparative analysis with an economic model of duopoly competition in price when users are under long-term contract and the breach fee can be regulated. The results show that the Act lowers the equilibrium prices, lower than incumbent price without the Act. Price of non-dominant Mobile Network Operator (MNO) can be lower than poaching price without the Act if significant portion of switching cost is breach fee or the market is significantly asymmetric. Under the significant circumstances, the Act can raise ARPU even though it improves social welfare. By contrast, the Act increases consumer surplus without affecting social welfare if breach fee is the only source of user's switching cost and is capped by the regulation, and more symmetric market and the stronger cap leads to higher consumer surplus.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.19-35
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• 2018

This study uses the concepts of mental accounting and coupling in consumption to demonstrate a systematic relationship between behavioral costs, sunk costs, coupling, and user intention to discontinue social network services (SNS) use. An analysis of 213 SNS users found that coupling and sunk costs are two major factors that influence an individual's intention to discontinue SNS use. An interesting finding of this study is that the perception of coupling is created by behavioral costs in the context of an SNS. This finding implies that the source of cost perception when perceiving coupling may differ depending on whether the product or service is traditional or web-based. These results contribute to an expansion of the theoretical discussion of individual-level discontinuance intention after adopting SNS by conceptualizing the perception of coupling.