• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1-11
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• 2014

This article studies the types of financing and the liquidity of small and medium size firms in their early-stage. The sample firms distinguish themselves from the established firms in the second year after foundation in that they rely heavily on external equity financing. However, they use the internal financing the most in the fourth year and do not show distinguishing feature any more. In the mean while, they do not show any serious liquidity problem either in the second year or in the fourth year. The empirical results imply that early-stage lasts rather short after the foundation for successful Korean firms, and that a distinguishing feature of early-stage firm can be found only in financing, not in liquidity. They also allow us to assert that Government-lead financial aid programs should be limited to two- or three-year-old firms and focused on helping their financing investments rather than easing their liquidity problem.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.1-27
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• 2007

When banks prefer securities holding to lending, bank-dependent borrowers would be rationed in bank loan markets. This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the incentive of banks to hold securities rather than loans. When banks are in trouble due to an external shock and subsequent drain of deposit, they cannot reduce their loans quickly because loans are illiquid and are not easy to sell. Therefore, banks should respond to insured deposit drain by raising uninsured CDs or debentures. However, they cannot raise enough money through uninsured CDs or debentures when there is costly external finance premium. Meanwhile, if banks hold securities which are highly liquid, they can sell those securities and thus endure deposit drain without costly external financing. This explains why banks hold liquid securities of which yields to maturity are lower than those of loans. Banks' preference for securities comes from the existence of costly external finance premium, which is inversely related with bank net worth. After all, if bank net worth is kept high enough or capital market incompleteness is not severe, the preference for securities should be weakened.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.57-82
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• 1992

본(本) 논문(論文)에서는 기업 내부자와 자본시장 간에 정보(情報)의 배분(配分)이 불균등할 경우 외부자금의 조달 및 주주에 대한 현금배당 등의 재무정책(財務政策)에 관한 장기계획의 수립에서 고려하여야 할 문제들을 2단계(2段階) 효율적신호(效率的信號) 균형(均衡)의 모형(模型)을 통하여 분석하였다. 본(本) 연구(硏究)에서는 단위 기간의 연결체인 장기모형을 동태적(動態的)으로 분석함으로써 각 단위 기간의 모형 구성이 기존의 연구들과 유사함에도 불구하고 기존의 정태적(靜態的) 분석(分析)들에서 밝혀지지 않았던 현상들까지 설명이 가능하였다. 기존의 연구들에서 밝혀진 배당(配當) 및 신주발행(新株發行)의 정보효과(情報效果)는 본 연구의 동태적 균형에서도 나타났으나, 일반적으로 정태적 모형들이 재무정책(財務政策)의 정보효과에 기인한 투자정책의 왜곡을 지나치게 과장하고 있음을 보였다. 또 기존의 연구들에서는 분석이 곤란하였던 배당 및 기업 내부자금의 장기적 균등화의 문제를 분석하여 적정 여유자금의 보유가 기업가치의 증대에 도움이 됨을 보였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.300-308
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• 2016

Research on OECD and Korea have shown that high-growth startups are the keys to job creation and that these companies are very important for economic growth. Given that the large-scale entry of women into the labor force accelerates economic growth and women have far lower levels of participation in growth-oriented entrepreneurship than men do, accelerating female entrepreneurship could have positive effects on the Korean economy. This paper uses data from several databases to do a comparison analysis between women's and men's start-ups to explore the factors that explain the lag in building high-growth firms among women. Women startups make up nearly 34% of startups(defined as less than 7 years of establishment), but only 6% of high-growth startups. Women rarely own large businesses, reflecting their low levels of initial capital and outside financing. Regardless of gender, entrepreneurs face many of the same challenges in starting businesses, but this study shows three primary factors for female entrepreneurs that lead to a less high-growth startup: a greater financing gap than for men(this gap is more apparent for high-growth firms), a lack of ideas, knowledge, and experience(related to the lack of mentorship), and lastly the difficulty maintaining a work-life balance. The findings are very similar with those found in studie's in the US(financing gap, work-life balance, and lack of mentorship). Further studies are required to identify more specific factors behind the gender gap in ideas, knowledge, and experience.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.171-184
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• 2014

This paper investigate the impact of external financing constraints(EFC) on the dividend policy(cash dividend ratio) and the impact of interaction of ownership structure((1)the percentage of shares held by external blockholder who owns at least 5% of equity(5% BHR), (2) the percentage of shares held by foreign investors(Foreign), (3) the percentage of shares by insider shareholders(Insider)) and external financing constraints on the dividend policy. The purpose mentioned above are empirically tested using 370 firm-year data listed on the Korean Exchange(KRX) with multiple regression method. Summarizing the results of analysis as following; Firstly, we find that EFC has negative relationship with cash dividend ratio. Secondly, interaction of 5% BHR and EFC has positive relationship with cash dividend ratio. Also, interaction of Foreign and EFC has positive relationship with cash dividend ratio. But, Insider and EFC has negative relationship with cash dividend ratio. This study contributes to research related to dividend policy by recognizing that ownership structure influences the dividend policy.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2019.04a
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• pp.29-35
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• 2019

본 연구는 초기 스타트업의 제한된 자원으로 겪게 되는 어려움을 극복하는 과정을 이해하기 위해 부트스트래핑(bootstrapping)방법을 적용하여, 한양대학교 학생창업 기업인 (주)블랙루비 스튜디오 사례를 통해 설명하고자 하였다. 스타트업 초기 겪게 되는 자원 조달에 대한 문제는 끊임없이 반복되어 오고 있는 연구 주제이다. 이와 같은 문제에도 불구하고 스타트업의 초기 어려움을 극복하는 과정을 자세히 설명하는 연구들은 비교적 많지 않다. 스타트업들이 창업을 시작할 때, 부족한 자금과 제한된 자원을 해결하기 위한 방법으로 외부의 자금 유입을 줄여 위험을 감소시키고 내부적으로 자금 문제를 해결하는 방법인 부트스트래핑에 의존하게 된다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 스타트업의 부트스트래핑 개념을 이해하기 위해 관련된 선행연구 검토와 부트스트래핑에 관한 Winborg와 Landstrom(2001)의 연구에서 제시된 32개의 세부 항목별 부트스트래핑 방법을 바탕으로 블랙루비 스튜디오의 사례에 적용시켜 연구를 진행하였다. 창업자인 소재우 대표와의 수 차례의 인터뷰를 통해 스타트업의 생존을 위한 부트스트래핑 방법 활용과 창업 초기 어려움을 극복하는 과정을 면밀히 분석하여 예비창업자들에게 통찰력 있는 시사점을 전한다.

• Journal of the Korean hospital association
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• v.13 no.11 s.119
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• pp.32-37
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• 1984

전국적으로 균형있는 의료공급체계를 확립하기 위하여 정부가 건립 추진하여온 민간지역병원은 계획목표 년도가 2년이나 경과한 1984년 4월 현재 설립인가된 51개 병원중 38개 병원(74%)이 개원하였다. 이중 4개 병원은 심각한 재정난과 부실운영으로 이미 문을 닫은 실정이고 나머지 대부분의 병원들도 운영난에 봉착하였는바 이러한 민간지역 병원의 특성과 운영성과에 관련된 요인을 분석하기 위하여 각 병원별 실태조사표와 설문조사서 및 방문면담으로 개원중인 병원전체를 대상으로 자료를 수집,조사하였다. 각 병원의 운영성과에 미치는 요인중 가장 큰 것은 지역적 여건과 병원의 입지조건이었다. 병원운영이 다소 호전되는 병원일수록 의료수가나 진료미수금과 같은 병원외부요인에 관심을 갖는데 반해 악화되는 병원일수록 병원의 위치나 타병원과의 경쟁등 병원내부요인에서 더욱 많은 문제점을 느끼고 있었다. 또한 자력에 의한 운영자금 및 양질의 타인자본 조달능력이 중요한 것으로 지적되었다. 이러한 요인은 정부의 민간지역병원 건립계획에 대한 불충분한 검토와 병원들의 판단력부족 및 자금동원능력 부족과 관리운영미숙에도 문제가 있었다. 막대하게 소요된 시설자금 및 운영자금으로 인한 높은 부채비율로 인해 이를 감당할 만한 이자부담 능력도 없으며, 기존병원에 비하여 환자절대수마저 부족으로 정상운영을 기대할 수 없었다. 이와 같은 결과는 앞으로 병원신설을 할 때 기획단계부터 면밀한 검토가 필수적이라는 것을 시사해 준다.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.135-155
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• 2012

The objective of this study was to empirically analyze how Chinese urban residents use mortgage loan in their purchase of houses. For the research purpose, 205 households were surveyed on use of housing finance in Beijing, using prepared questionnaires in advance. The survey result showed that 39.5% of the respondents used mortgage loan in their housing purchase in Beijing. Most of the mortgage loan users got their loans from four state-owned commercial banks. This implies that the government could effectively govern the housing market by managing qualifications and interest rates under the government control. The households who did not use mortgage loan raised the fund mostly from own capital and their parents' money. In general, it was found that the Chinese, besides mortgage loan from commercial banks, rarely depend on outside sources. The dichotomous logistic analysis by logit model showed that socio-economic variables such as age, income, housing price and entry into the housing provident fund had significantly positive effects on the use of mortgage loan in the purchase of housing.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.121-148
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• 2018

This paper examines the role of accounting conservatism on investment expenditure for non-financial Korean listed firms around the 2007-2008 global financial crisis using a differences-in-differences design. Specifically, this paper examines the association between an ex ante classification of firms by their level of accounting conservatism prior to the credit crisis and the ex post magnitude of the decline in investment. Consistent with prior literature, this study found that firms experienced a decline in their investment when hit by the financial crisis (Campello et al. 2010). And also this study found that firms with more conservative financial reporting experienced a smaller decline in investment activity following the financial crisis than did firms with less conservative financial reporting. Together, the results suggest that negative shocks to the supply of external finance hampers firm-level investment and that conservative financial reporting can lessen the sensitivity of firms' investment to such negative shocks. Next, this study shows that the magnitude of our findings is greater for firms more likely to suffer from underinvestment (as opposed to overinvestment). Firms that are financially constrained or have greater demand for external finance are more likely to experience underinvestment. Consistent with the predictions, this study finds stronger benefits of conservatism for firms that face relatively greater costs in raising external capital (i.e., financially constrained firms) or that have a relatively greater need to do so (i.e., firms that lack internal financial resources). This study also finds that the role for conservatism is greater in firms with a higher level of information asymmetry, consistent with the notion that conservatism mitigates financing frictions arising from information problems.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.153-175
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• 2010

Firms must focus on innovative activities via R&D investment in order to secure competitive advantage and sustainable growth. However, their innovative activities do not always result in successful outcomes and are often obstructed by uncertainty and non-appropriability of technology being developed and by insufficient internal resources and capabilities to tap into it. In this situation, collaboration with external partners can be a part of good alternative strategy to solve those problems. This paper aims to analyze what factors lead to Korean manufacturing companies’ decision to collaborate with external partners for technology innovation. For empirical analysis, we used the Korean Innovation Data compiled by STEPI, government-funded research institute in Korea. The research findings are: 1) firms tend to participate in external collaboration for product innovation with greater firm size, more past collaboration experiences and when they belong to high-tech industries 2) unlike our expectation, our chosen ‘innovation-impeding’ factors are found not to contribute to the enhancement of collaboration for product innovation.