• Information Systems Review
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.111-137
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• 2018

Considering the increase in health insurance benefits and the elderly population of the baby boomer generation, the amount consumed by health care in 2020 is expected to account for 20% of US GDP. As the healthcare industry develops, competition among the medical services of hospitals intensifies, and the need of hospitals to manage the quality of medical services increases. In addition, interest in online reviews of hospitals has increased as online reviews have become a tool to predict hospital quality. Consumers tend to refer to online reviews even when choosing healthcare service providers and after evaluating service quality online. This study aims to analyze the effect of sentiment score of healthcare service quality on hospital rating with Yelp hospital reviews. This study classifies large amount of text data collected online primarily into five service quality measurement indexes of SERVQUAL theory. The sentiment scores of reviews are then derived by SERVQUAL dimensions, and an econometric analysis is conducted to determine the sentiment score effects of the five service quality dimensions on hospital reviews. Results shed light on the means of managing online hospital reputation to benefit managers in the healthcare and medical industry.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.321-340
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• 2012

Korean government recently announced that new passenger cars sold within South Korea in 2009 ran an average of 12.27 kilometers per liter of fuel, which is an 7% point increase of the fuel efficiency. The government interpreted these improvements in the fuel economy as energy savings of 60,000 toe and as a reduction of 160,000 ton $CO_2$ emissions. However, improvements in energy efficiency make energy services cheaper, which is known as rebound effect. If this rebound effect exists, and the size of the effect is not negligible, ignoring this could result in overestimating the energy savings achieved by the fuel efficiency increase. Using detailed data on household and vehicle characteristics, our results suggest that there exist a short-run rebound effect of 0.299(29.9%) for the Korean automobile industry. This is notably smaller than the estimates of West (2004), which finds an estimate of 87% using cross-section data for the US. Furthermore our results highlight the importance of rebound effect on energy savings and the $CO_2$ emissions reduction. Our estimates suggest that the report from Korean government overestimates the energy savings and related $CO_2$ emissions by 29.9% point.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.107-139
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• 1997

다른 금융산업과 마찬가지로 생명보험산업의 효율성에 대한 실증연구는 두 가지 문제에 봉착하게 된다. 하나는 효율성을 실증적으로 추정하는 다양한 추정방법은 일관되게 동일한 결과를 도출하는가 하는 것이며 다른 문제는 효율성추정에 사용된 생산물정의에서 어떤 대리변수를 사용하는 것이 가장 좋으냐 하는 것이다. Yuengert(1993)은 미국 생보산업 전체의 효율성과 추정방법간의 관계를 보고하였는데 본 연구는 추정방법 뿐만 아니라 생보산업 생산물의 정의에 따라 개별생보사의 효율성지수가 차이가 있다는 것을 248개의 미국 생명보험희사를 대상으로 검증하였다. 본 논문에서는 계량 경제학적 방법중 널리 사용되는 SFA(stochastic frontier approach)중에서 비효율성이 half-normal, truncated normal, exponential 분포라고 한 방법들과 비분포방법(DFA: distribution free approach)을 사용하였다. 또 각 방법마다 거수보험료(premiums)와 claims-plus-reserve라는 새로운 생산물 대리변수로 사용하여 효율성을 측정하였다. 그리하여 총 8가지의 다른 방법으로 추정한 효율성지수를 비교, 분석하였다. 연구결과 표1과 2에서 나타난 바와 같이 SFA방법(1, 3, 5번)간에는 결과가 거의 일치하였고 같은 추정방법에서 생산물 대리변수가 다른 경우에도(1과2, 3과4, 5와6, 7과8) 결과는 큰 차이가 없었다. 이는 생보산업에서 거수보험료를 생산물 대리변수로 하는 것이 이론적 문제가 있음에도 불구하고 구조적 편견(systematic bias)은 나타나지 않았다는 Suret(1991)의 결과를 지지하고 있다. DFA방법(7과 8번)과 SFA방법(1-6번)간에는 상관계수는 낮게 나타났는데 이는 생보산업의 효율성을 각각 DFA와 SPA방법을 사용한 두 연구(Gardner and Grace, 1993; Zi, 1994) 결과의 차이와 일치하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Environmental Toocicology Conference
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• 1997.12a
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• pp.81-90
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• 1997

위해성평가 방법론이란 환경오염으로 인해 유발될 수 있는 인체의 위해성을 정성또는 정량적으로 추정하여 구체적이고도 과학적으로 평가하고자 하는 방법론으로서, 단순히 환경중 오염도를 위해도(risk)로써 알기 쉽게 수치적으로 제사하는 과정만이 아니라 오염물질의 발생에서부터 인체로의 영향까지를 통계학적, 동성학적, 수학적, 사회정책 및 경제학적 측면 등을 모두 고려하여, 정책 결정자들과 일반대중이 과학적 기반 위에서 합일점을 찾도록 하는데 과학적 근거로 제시될 수 있는 방법론이다. 과거에는 환경오염에 의한 피해의 유무, 즉 인간관계를 규명하는 것이 일차적 관심의 대상이었으나 구체적이고 정량적인 정보를 요구하는 현대 사회에서는 오염피해의 정도와 심각성을 평가하여 주민들에게 알려주어야 하며 어느 정도의 오염수준을 우리 사회에서 받아들일 수 있는가의 판단이 매우 중요한 문제로 떠오르게 되었다. 또한 복잡 다기화 되어 가고 있는 사회현상 속에서 이해관계와 불확실성으로 얽혀 있는 환경문제를 풀어나가기 위해서는 과학적이고 합리적인 방법론이 요구되고 있으며 이러한 방법론들이 환경관리정책의 기본이 되고 있음을 미국등 선진국의 예를 보아 알 수 있다. 위해성 평가의 필요성은 첫째, 환경오염 심화에 따른 인체건강영향에 대한 관심이 증대되었으며 둘째. 사회적 행정적으로 독성정보의 정량화 필요성이 대두되었고, 셋째, 현실성 있는 오염관리와 넷째. 기준치 제정, 제도시행 전후의 비용효과분석이 가능하다는 점들이다. 위해성 평가를 통하여 환경오염의 인체영향에 대한 종합적이고 계량적인 정보가 제공될 수 있어 국민, 정부, 기업 등 각 주체간의 의사 교환이 수월해지고 국민의 신뢰 회복에 기여할 수 있으며 수질 등 오염에 대한 합리적 기준을 제시할 수 있고 이에 따른 공학적 처리기술 목표 설정을 가능케 한다. 본 원고의 환경오염물질의 위해성 평가에 대한 방법론은 주로 미국 환경보호청의 자료 (US EPA, 1993)와 NAS(National Academy of Sciences, 1983), 미국에서 발행되는 정부 지침서 (Federal Register)에 고시된 내용 등을 토대로 하였다.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.145-174
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• 2017

Recently, due to the worsening global economic recession, Korea which is a small, export-oriented economy has decreased exports and the domestic economy also continues to stagnate. Therefore, for continued growth of our economy through export growth, we need to analyze the validity of export support system such as export insurance and prepare ways to expand exports. This study is to investigate the effects of Export Insurance on the exports of SMEs as well as LEs. For this purpose, this study conducted Time Series Analysis using data such as export, export insurance acquisition, export price index, exchange rate, and coincident composite index(CCI). First, as a result of the Granger Causality Test, the exports of LEs has found to have a causal relationship with the CCI, and CCI is to have a causal relationship with the short-term export insurance record. Second, the results of VAR analysis show that the export insurance acquisition result and the export price index have a positive effect on the exports of LEs, while the short - term export insurance has a negative effect on the exports of LEs. Third, as a result of variance decomposition, the export of LEs has much more influenced for mid to long term by the short-term export insurance acquisition compared to SMEs. Fourth, short-term export insurance has a positive effect on exports of SMEs. In order to activate short-term export insurance against SMEs, it is necessary to expand support for SMEs by local governments. This study aims to suggest policy implications for establishing effective export insurance policy by analyzing the effects of export insurance on the export of SMEs as well as LEs. It is necessary to carry out a time series analysis on the export results according to the insurance acquisition results by industry to measure the export support effect of export insurance more precisely.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.57 no.3
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• pp.351-379
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• 2023

The goal of this study is to investigate the domestic and international research trends on metaverse related researches. To achieve this goal, a set of 913 journal articles were collected from KCI (Korea Citation Index), 232 articles from WoS (Web of Science), and 277 articles from WoS-CPCI (Conference Proceeding Citation Index). A descriptive analysis shows the number of researches has been increased radically, and the mostly researched subject areas are interdisciplinary, computer science, and education in KCI, business and economics in WoS, and computer science in WoS-CPCI. The co-occurrence network analysis using author keywords revealed that technology related terms such as virtual reality and augmented reality showed high centrality measures in all of the databases, and the cluster analysis resulted in education and metaverse platform related keywords cluster from KCI, bibliometric analysis related keywords cluster from WoS, and all the metaverse technology related keywords cluster from WoS-CPCI.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.31-49
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• 2003

Electronic publications, including e-journals, show a rapid expansion due to its several advantages for the academic and research community. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of e-journals on scholarly communication. The impact factors and immediacy indices were provided via JCR social science edition have been used to conduct a series of analysis on three subject fields, economics, law and psychology. The data from the last eight years show that the impact factors of e-journals have not changed, but immediacy indices have intensely increased in recent two years. Significant increase of immediacy indices is probably due to prevalence of e-journals or electronic sources of articles. The result reveals that e-journals play an important role in speeding up the scholarly communication. It is expected that the findings of this study can contribute to more efficient management of the digital libraries.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.213-231
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• 2015

In this paper, I examine whether the listed companies in Korea tend to manage operating cash flows upward via classification shifting after the adoption of K-IFRS. As proxies for cash flow management, I derive a measure of abnormal operating cash flows borrowing from Lee(2012). Alternative proxies include a series of categorical variables designed to identify the types of classification shifting of interest and dividend payments among others, in the statement of cash flows. Higher level of estimated abnormal operating cash flows, and the classification of interest/dividend payments in non-operating activity sections are considered to indicate the managerial intention to maximize reported operating cash flows. I consider several potential incentives to manage operating cash flows, which include financial distress, the credit rating proximity to investment/non-investment cutoff threshold, avoidance of negative or decreasing operating cash flows relative to previous period and so forth. In a series of empirical analyses, I do not find evidence in support of the opportunistic classification shifting explanation, inconsistent with several previous literature in Korea. In contrast, I observe negative associations between the CFO management proxies and selected incentives, which suggest that the classification is likely to represent above average cash flow performance rather than opportunistic motives exercised to maximize reported operating cash flows. I reckon that this observation is, in part, driven by the K-IFRS requirement to maintain temporal consistency in classifying interest and dividend receipts/payments in cash flow statement.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.741-749
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to propose a rational and scientific damage calculation model in relation to damages caused by bid rigging in construction projects. Previous studies and precedents in relation to calculating damages from bid rigging suggest that the main issue was the lack of consideration in standards for deciding successful bids, selection of inadequate standard comparative markets, insufficiency in analyzing the appropriateness of competitive bid price influence factors, and absence of calculation model verification. In order to improve on these issues, a damage calculation method on alternative tenders for construction projects was proposed. For this calculation model, first, a standard market adequate to the successful bid selection standards was determined, second, an appropriate factor was selected by analyzing the correlation between competitive bid price influence factors, and third, a regression analysis was conducted on the selected factor. Lastly, this was demonstrated through verification of appropriateness, significance & normality of the proposed model and application of actual bid rigging cases. Through the proposed calculation model, this study seeks to serve as a base to prevent opportunity damages for parties involved in related court cases by early resolution of disputes and relief from issues of unfair damage burdens on a particular party.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.97-116
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• 2007

As the fertility level in Korea continues to drop with detrimental implications for the society, it has regained much attention of academics and policy makers. This study, building on the previous research on fertility behavior, attempts to explore the plan of young married women to have an additional child. While such plan is not always put into practice, it is still closely related to fertility behavior. In addition, it can provide useful clues to understanding behavior in the future. Utilizing a recent nationwide survey on marriage and fertility, the study analyzes the plan of further birth among young married women according to the number of their children. The results show that the plan for first child is quite universal as no difference is found by their socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. However, having plan for second child differs by the work status of husbands, presence of mother of young married women, and the sex of first child. The effects of first two factors suggest that young married women take into consideration stability of home economics and availability of care sharing. As for the plan for the child, the present and ideal sex composition of children appear most important. The results indicate that the mechanism of fertility progression differs by the current number of children. Thus, consideration of such differential would help us deepen our understanding of fertility behaviors and need to reflect in the study. The study also argues that comprehensive and systematic qualitative research should be accompanied by to capture complexity of fertility decision making process.