• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.753-755
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• 2005

The Black-Scholes (BS) option pricing model is a landmark in contingent claim theory and has found wide acceptance in financial markets. However, it has a difficulty in the use of the model, because the volatility which is a nonlinear function of the other parameters must be estimated. The more accurately investors are able to estimate this value, the more accurate their estimates of theoretical option values will be. This paper proposes a new model which is based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for finding more precise theoretical values of options in the field of evolutionary computation (EC) than genetic algorithm (GA)or calculus-based search techniques to find estimates of the implied volatility.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.167-197
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• 2017

I build a small open economy (SOE) dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model to investigate the effect of a heterogeneous wage contract between regular and temporary workers on a macroeconomic volatility in a financially fragile economy. The imperfect financial market condition is captured by a quadratic financial adjustment cost for borrowing foreign assets, and the labor market friction is captured by a Nash bargaining process which is only available to the regular workers when they negotiate their wages with the firms while the temporary workers are given their wage which simply equals the marginal cost. As a result of impulse responsesto a domestic productivity shock, the higher elasticity of substitution between two types of workers and the lower weight on the regular workers in the firm's production process induce the higher volatilities in most variables. This is reasoned that the higher substitutability creates more volatile wage determination process while the lower share of the regular workers weakens their Nash bargaining power in the contract process.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.1791-1804
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• 2014

A new approach to the commodity futures term structure model is introduced. The most salient feature of this model is that, once the interest rate model is given, the commodity futures price volatility is the only quantity that completely determines the model. As a consequence this model enables one to do away with the drudgeries of having to deal with the convenience yield altogether, which has been the most thorny point so far.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.99-103
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• 2014

Purpose - The objective of this study was to examine the volatility of the exchange rate of the Somali shilling (SoSh) during 2010, especially the exchange rate between the Somali shilling and US dollar. Research design, data, and methodology - The study employed aquantitative research design; the data was analyzed using contents analysis for the data pertaining to the exchange rate between the US dollar and Somali Shilling in 2010. Results - The main findings were that the exchange rate was very volatile during 2010 because of three sources: (1) Imbalance of demand and supply in the money market, (2) People adopting the US dollar as the medium of exchange forgoods and services, thereby reducing the circulation of the SoSh, and (3) Lack of a strong central bank. Conclusions - The study suggested three possible remedies: the establishment of an effective central bank that matches the demand and supply of the currencies, adoption of the Somali shilling as the official currency base for the prices of commodities, and minimizing the imports into the country and maximizing its exports, to support the strengthening of the Somali shilling.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.47-54
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• 1995

An advanced liquid lubricants for heat engines has been developed and tested successfully in a prototype engine. The lubricant possesses superior oxidation stability and high temperature stability and is capable of surviving for a minimum of three minutes at 425$^{\circ}$C (800$^{\circ}$C) at the ring zone and maintains stability at an oil sump temperature of 171$^{\circ}$C. The lubricant has been evaluated by the Cummins Engine Co. Out of a field of several dozens of lubricant, six lubricant was selected for a prototype 200 hours endurance testing. The NIST lubricant was one of the two lubricants that successfully finished the endurance testing. This paper describes the key lubricant considerations including oxidation and thermal stability, volatility, deposit control. The engine test conditions and the results will be presented.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.35-47
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• 2016

Generation of electricity using wind power has received considerable attention worldwide in recent years mainly due to its minimal environmental impact. However, volatility of wind power production causes additional problems to provide reliable electricity to an electrical grid regarding power system operations, power system planning, and wind farm operations. Those problems require appropriate stochastic models for the electricity generation output of wind power. In this study, we review previous literatures for developing the stochastic model for the wind power generation, and propose a systematic procedure for developing a stochastic model. This procedure shows a way to build an ARIMA model of volatile wind power generation using historical data, and we suggest some important considerations. In addition, we apply this procedure into a case study for a wind farm in the Republic of Korea, Shinan wind farm, and shows that our proposed model is helpful for capturing the volatility of wind power generation.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.49-61
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• 2014

We investigate the hedging effectiveness of incorporating single-stock futures into the corresponding stocks. Investing in only stocks frequently causes too much risk when market volatility suddenly rises. We found that single-stock futures help reduce the variance and risk levels of the corresponding stocks invested. We use daily prices of Korean stocks and their corresponding futures for the time period from December 2009 to August 2013 to test the hedging effect. We also use system trading technique that uses automatic trading program which also has several simulation functions. Moving average strategy, Stochastic's strategy, Larry William's %R strategy have been considered for hedging strategy of the futures. Hedging effectiveness of each strategy was analyzed by percent reduction in the variance between the hedged and the unhedged variance. The results clearly showed that examined hedging strategies reduce price volatility risk compared to unhedged portfolio.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-19
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• 1997

본 연구는 주가지수옵션의 도입이 주식시장의 주가변동성 및 정보적 시장효율성에 미치는 영향에 대해 실증적으로 분석하였다. 주가지수옵션의 도입이 주식시장의 변동성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 가를 보기위해 각국별로 동일한 가중치를 둔(equally weighted) 국제 포트폴리오를 구성함으로써 주가지수옵션 도입이라는 요인외의 다른 요인들을 통제하였다. 이 포트폴리오를 이용한 분석결과에 의하면, 주가지수옵션의 거래는 단기간에 걸쳐서는 주식시장의 주가변동성에 별 영향을 주지 않았으나 다소 긴 기간인 1년 정도의 기간에서는 주가변동성을 증가시켰다. 또한 본 연구는 GARCH 형태의 모델을 이용하여 주가지수옵션시장의 개설이후로 주식시장의 시간에 따라 변하는 주가변동성(time-varying volatility)에 어떤 구조적 변화가 있었느냐를 분석함으로써, 주가지수옵션의 거래가 정보적 시장효율성(informational market efficiency)에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 알아보았다. 우리의 실증분석 결과는 지수옵션 도입 이후로 정보의 이산적 패킷(discrete packets)인 여러 변동성 충격(volatility shock)이 주식시장에 더욱 더 빨리 흡수된다는 것을 보여주었다. 이는 주가지수옵션의 도입은 주식시장의 효율성 증대에 도움을 준다는 것을 의미한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.606-608
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• 2003

경쟁적인 전력시장에서의 전력 가격은 전력에 대한 수요(Demand)와 공급(Supply)에 의한 시장원리에 의해 결정되기 때문에, 매 시각의 전력가격은 정해져 있지 않고 시장에 의해 결정된다. 이와 같이 전력가격이 가지는 가변성 및 불확실성(Volatility) 때문에 향후 전력 시장에 참여하는 사업자의 수입(Revenue) 및 수익 규모의 불확실성이 커지는 한편, 전력을 사용하는 소비자의 에너지비용도 그 불확실성이 매우 크게 증가하게 마련이다. 이러한 전력가격의 가변성(Volatility)과 불확실성(Uncertainty)이 대두됨에 따라, 외국의 경우, 가정용 부하와 같은 소규모 전력소비자를 제외한 대부분의 대규모 소비자(산업용, 상업용, 일반용 전력소비자)들은 전력가격이나 자신이 사용하고 있는 전력의 소비패턴과 같은 정보(Information)와 전략(Strategy)이 없는 경우, 예전에 비해 상당히 높은 전기요금을 지불해야 하는 상황에 처하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 경쟁적 환경에서 직접부하제어자원을 활용하여 비용 및 위험을 관리하는 해외사례를 집중적으로 분석하고자 한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.2
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• pp.266-272
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• 2011

Real Time Pricing(RTP) is used not only to stabilize the price volatility in electricity market, but to hedge the price risk for Load Serving Entity(LSE). This paper presents an efficient method to reduce the risk of the price volatility in real-time electricity market. For designing the RTP, load patterns of customer are calculated by applying the demand elasticity and customer's utility is also analyzed to compute the RTP revenue through the risk-attribute of the LSE. In the end, the distribution of the LSE's profits can be evaluated to lead the optimal RTP value, depending on the level of customer's participation. Results from the case study based on PJM data are reported to illustrate the proposed method.