• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.189-204
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• 2009

Our study aims to investigate the determinants of international competitiveness and international specialization in services, using OECD service trade data. Real exchange rates, world demand, economies of scale, diffusion of IT, human capital, R&D expenditure and institutional variables are introduced as explanatory variables in regressions for 29 OECO countries over $1996{\sim}2003$. Some of major findings from the study can be summarized as follows. First, economies of scale play important role in transport and business services. Second, the index of freedom to trade measured by Faster Institute has a positive and significant impact on international competitiveness in telecommunication, finance and insurance and business services. Third, IT provides favorable condition to build international competitiveness in finance and insurance and business services. Fourth, R&D expenditure contributes to the amelioration of international competitiveness in transport services, while investment in new equipments contributes to increasing the competitiveness in telecommunication services. Thus, our results show the importance of the industrial base for developing a competitive service economy.

• 웰빙융합연구
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2019

This study empirically examined the effect of female director on tax aggressiveness of listed insurance firms in Nigeria. The main objective of this research was to empirically investigate the effect of female board members on tax aggressiveness, determine the composition and representation of female directors on the board of insurance companies, find out how tax aggressive are listed insurance firms and apply the BLAU (1977) index method to measure female director representation as a departure from conventional approaches specifically in the Nigerian context in the reference period, 2014 to 2018. The population of the study consists of all the quoted insurance firms as at 31st December, 2016. A sample of twenty eight (28) quoted insurance firms was selected and data were collected over the period. Inferential statistic consisting of the General Method of Moment was used for the data analysis. The results obtained reveal that board size is negative and exerts significant impact on tax aggressiveness in insurance firms in Nigeria. The study therefore recommends that the Federal government has to come up with a policy to respond to the marginalization of female on the insurance firm corporate board in Nigeria. The aim of this policy thrust should be targeted at reducing politics and biasness against women on the corporate boards of listed insurance firms.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제69권
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• pp.453-472
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• 2016

As globalization is widely expanded in Islamic world as well as huge capital like oil-money is looking for new investment areas, our government should keep eyes on the current situation of Muslim market. This study will focus on the research of operation model of Islamic insurance. It will analysis on the institutional aspects of Islamic insurance(Takaful) system, which is a step further on the basis of these previous researches about Islamic finance. Takaful is conducted with various machanism such as Wakala, Mudarabah, Waqf. The mechanism can also be intermingled with one another to form other diverse contracts. However most of them are focused on basic conceptual elements of Islamic insurance system. As public interests in Islamic insurance are increasing these days, many Islam related literatures are issued accordingly. But most of them were focused on basic aspect of Islamic financial system or on the study of business management structure. The conceptual approach to evaluate the Islamic insurance market shall become the foundation of operation in conventional business law and regulation penetrate to the Islamic business environment. Therefore, the research of the operation model in Islamic insurance system as well as the search of trade engineering basis.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.29-57
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• 2001

Since the inauguration of the medical insurance system in 1977, the increasing medical expenses which can be menace to tile finance of the medical insurance system, have become major concern in the medical insurance field In Korea. This study focuses on the determinants of the medical expenses in the health insurance in Korea and analyzes the impact of these factors on the increase in the medical expenses. The empirical work is done using the pooled cross-section and time-series data of the medical insurance for the self-employeds and the industrial workers from the year 1995 to 1997. The result of this study shows that the main determinants of the medical expenses in the health insurance are the ratio of the population of the aged to the total population, the frequency of the utilization, number of doctors per capita and the regime changes. Although the increasing trend in the medical expenses seems to be unavoidable, we probably need to add some efficiency to the medical expenses by suppressing the supply and the utilization of the unnecessary medical services. The fee-for-service reimbursement system of today can't suppress the supply of the unnecessary medical services effectively. So we need to convert the present fee-for-service system into DRG's which is known to reduce the medical costs. The increase in the medical expenses comes from a lot of factors. Therefore, we should develop more systematic and comprehensive measures to control the soaring medical expenses in consideration of the various factors such as demand, supply, and the organizational side of the medical system.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.241-248
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate empirical evidences of productivity of life insurance institutions in Malaysia. Therefore, this study attempts to explore the productivity of the life insurance institutions in Malaysia. The overall findings show that the total factor productivity (TFP) has progressed by 2.5% per year during the study period from 2012 to 2016 in the Malaysian insurance industry. However, TFP change has declined from 2012 to 2015 and observed a negative growth in 2015-16 (3.3%). The highest productivity progress was documented during 2012-13 at a rate of 11.7% while the minimum productivity progress was during 2014-15 (only 0.2%). The results also indicate that the decomposition of TFP found that overall progress could mainly be attributed to technological change (TC). However, technical efficiency change (TEC) and pure technical efficiency change (PTE) have negative impact on TFP. The findings also show that most of the insurance companies have a steady growth. Therefore, this study will contribute new insights for the policy makers and insurance institutions to take appropriate steps in developing relevant policies for increasing productivity of insurance institutions in Malaysia.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.83-89
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• 2019

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the social system of deposit insurance affected the financial market in Korea. Specifically, we want to know how much the risk-seeking behavior of financial institutions has increased or decreased. The most important feature of the deposit insurance system is to prevent the insolvency of financial institutions and to properly protect depositors. In recent studies, it has been argued that characteristics of deposit insurance bring moral hazard of financial institutions and that financial institutions make unreasonably risky investments. Therefore, in this study, we will first examine whether such previous research can be applied to the Korean financial market. Next, we will examine the appropriateness of the differential premium rate that is currently used for each financial institution in the Korean financial market. In order to test the first hypothesis, we used the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to calculate the total risk for each financial institution. As a result, significant changes were found in all regions before and after the introduction of the deposit insurance system. As for testing the second hypothesis, we conducted a variance analysis of financial institutions' indexes before and after the introduction of the deposit insurance and we discovered significance of the total risk difference.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.13-27
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• 2021

Purpose: We examined the relationship between operating income and volume of medical services provided at general hospitals in 2018 according to characteristics of general hospitals and measured as operating income(net income) and volume(adjusted inpatient days) covered or non-covered by National Health Insurance(NHI). Methodology: Finance data from income statement reports in 212 general hospitals and the national health insurance claim data of these hospitals were used. The characteristics of the general hospital were divided into structural, operational, financial, and patient aspects. Operating income and volume were divided into covered and non-covered by NHI. Findings: The results showed high volume hospitals tended to be more profitable than low volume hospitals, especially in non-covered services. Operating income was more likely to be sensitive to non-covered services volume than to covered services volume. Practical Implications: It is necessary to understand the volume of services in non-covered, in order to obtain reliable cost information to be used for the fee schedule. Researches on small size hospitals(<160 beds) are needed, with a large variation in the volume of services and a strong tendency to compensate for the loss in the covered part in non-covered part.

• 한국사회정책
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.31-60
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• 2017

이 논문은 독일에서 진행 중인 사회보험 개혁론의 배경과 쟁점을 드러내고 시사점을 제시한다. 사회보험 개혁론의 배경에는 사회보험이 근간으로 삼았던 산업사회 표준성의 위기가 자리 잡고 있다. 표준성의 위기는 재정과 이중화라는 이중적 위기로 표출되고 있다. 사회보험 개혁론은 개별 사회보험 영역에서 서로 다른 형태로 표출되는 표준성의 위기에 대한 대응으로서, 건강보험은 시민보험으로, 연금보험은 취업자 보험을 비롯한 다양한 대안적 제도로, 실업보험은 일자리 보험으로 재편을 모색하고 있다. 사회보험이 전통적으로 가정했던 표준성을 재구성하려는 사회보험 개혁론의 공통점 중 하나는 자신의 선조인 비스마르크로부터 벗어나려는 것이다. 그러나 경제 상황의 호전, 사회보험 개선의 역사적 경험, 높은 만족도 등으로 전통적인 사회보험에서 급진적으로 전환하기 보다는 점진적 개선으로 가닥을 잡을 것으로 전망된다. 사회보험의 성숙도가 낮은 한국의 경우 독일 사회보험이 직면한 위기를 반면교사로 새길 필요가 있다. 우리는 사회정책의 기본으로 돌아가 표준성과 보편성의 재구성이라는 관점에서 다양한 구상들을 열어 놓고 사회정책의 설계도를 다시 그려볼 필요가 있다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.211-221
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• 2014

이 연구는 중국 보험소비자의 보험업에 대한 신뢰 결정요인을 구조방정식 모형을 통해 살펴보고, 생명보험과 자동차보험 간 보험소비자 신뢰 결정요인에 차이가 있는지를 잠재평균과 다집단분석을 통해 검증하였다. 분석결과, 중국 보험소비자의 보험업 신뢰 결정요인으로 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것은 보험회사의 정직성이었고, 정직성 요인 다음으로는 보험회사가 장래 보험금 지급을 제대로 할 수 있는지를 포괄하는 공신력이 신뢰 결정요인으로 작용하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 반면, 배려는 신뢰 결정요인으로서는 통계적으로 유의미하지 않았다. 한편, 보험소비자의 신뢰는 중국 보험시장에서도 추후 재가입이나 주변 사람 추천 등 관계몰입으로 강하게 연결됨을 보였다. 이러한 결과는 앞으로 보험업이 더욱 견고하게 지속 성장하기 위해서는 무엇보다 보험소비자의 신뢰 구축이 긴요하다는 것을 시사해 준다.

• 재무관리논총
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.249-269
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• 2004

Free cash flow is known as a typical type of agency conflict between managers and shareholders in a firm. The insurance industry, which is not growing, is particularly susceptible to such excessive cash flow. We herein investigate the effects of stock ownership plans on reducing agency conflicts. We adopt undistributed cash flow to proxy free cash flow, and size, default risk, group membership, leverage, investment opportunity, and stock options are selected as explanatory variables. We find that stock option plans are effective(at a 10% level) in reducing free cash flow.