• Korea Trade Review
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.353-371
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• 2016

The purpose of this paper is to examine the structural change of Korean manufacturing industries and the differences of total factor productivity(TFP) between exporting industries and import substituting industries in Korean manufacturing industry from 1980 to 2013. The empirical results show that over half of total 13 industries have experienced changes of direction from import to export or export to import, which implies that there was a considerable structural change in Korean manufacturing industry. The output growth rates are higher in exporting industries than in import substituting industries. All industries employ more capital than labor during the period, which means that production methodology in Korean industries changes to a more capital intensive one. Finally, the growth rate of total factor productivity is higher in exporting industries than in import substituting industries, and it is also proved in panel regression analysis.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.947-971
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• 2000

환경오염을 유발하는 산업에 대한 환경규제의 효과는 모순되는 두 가지 측면이 있다. 즉, 환경규제는 기업의 생산성 증가를 감소시킬 것이라는 생산성에 대한 부정적인 효과와 환경규제가 효율성 증대와 기술혁신을 유발시켜 생산성을 증가시킨다는 것이다. 최근 한국은 소득이 증가함에 따라 환경에 대한 인식이 점점 높아지고 있으나 철강산업의 생산성 증가율은 감소하고 있다. 이러한 경제구조에서 환경규제가 한국철강산업의 생산성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 검증하고자 하였다. 본 연구는 1967년부터 1996년까지의 한국 철강산업의 시계열 자료를 사용하여 환경규제의 총요소생산성에 대한 직 간접적인 효과를 검증하였다. 검증결과 환경규제는 한국 철강산업의 총요소생산성 감소의 31~36%를 차지하는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.2B
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• pp.154-163
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• 2006

The importance of R & D investment has dramatically been increased as industrial paradigm rapidly changes to knowledge-based economy. In order to preserve recent economic growth and reinforce competitive advantage, government policy and regulatory framework needs to be reshaped in ways that minimize the distorted use of limited resources and maximize the efficiency of R & D investment. In this regards, this paper aims to investigate the influence of R & D investment in national economic growth and to compare the effectiveness of IT R & D investment with other industries, in respect to the time lag.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.277-297
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• 2016

This study is to analyze the effects of changing pattern of climate vaariables on total factor productivity of Korea manufacture industry. Changes in temperature, rainfalls and humidity which are the representative climate variables are used as main factors. Not only average values of the variables but those highest values are used as independent variables in the model, in order to consider the characteristic pattern of recent climate change, the high volatilities. The OLS results are unlike to previous literature that temperature and humidity had no significant impact on manufacturing productivity. An increase in the amount of precipitation was analyzed that impact negatively impacted. The analysis of panel data showed that temperatures and precipitation all that does not significantly affect the manufacturing. While the increase of the average humidity is shown to increase the total productivity of manufacture industry. In Korea, adaptation capability is important in determining the effects of climate change on productivity of manufacture industry.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.21 no.3_4
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• pp.147-213
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• 1999

본고의 성장회계 분석결과 동아시아의 경이적 경제성장과정에서 자본축적의 중요성이 재확인되었다. 총요소생산성 증가율 측면에서는 동아시아는 선진국과 비슷한 수준이었다. 그러나 개발도상국 지역들과 비교해서 동아시아의 총요소생산성은 훨씬 빨리 증가하였을 뿐 아니라 매우 지속적으로 이루어졌는데, 이 점은 기존 문헌에서 그다지 주목하지 못한 것이었다. 성장회계를 통한 성장요인 분해결과 대외개방도 및 제도의 질 변수가 동아시아와 중남미 및 아프리카 등 다른 개도국 지역의 성장률 차이를 가장 잘 설명하였다. 그러나 동아시아가 선진국보다 빨리 성장한 것은 수렴효과에 기인하였으며, 선진국에 비해 열등한 제도 및 경제정책으로 인하여 동아시아는 이러한 수렴효과조차 충분히 활용하지 못한 것으로 나타났다. 한편 대외개방이 경제성장에 미치는 직접효과뿐 아니라 제도를 개선함으로써 성장에 미치는 간접효과도 고려할 경우 경제성장에서 대외개방도의 양적 중요성은 훨씬 큰 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 대외개방이 동아시아의 성장에 있어서 가장 중요한 요인이었음을 시사하는 것으로 판단되며, 또한 "대외지향적 무역전략이 추가적인 자유화 조치의 모멘텀을 제공하여 개방의 이익을 추가적으로 실현하는 데 기여한다"는 Krueger(1990)의 주장과 일맥상통하는 것으로 보인다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.388-395
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to estimate change of productivity of information and technology industry and to induce policy implications. The method of analysis is panel data analysis based on 11 Korean information and technology industry cross-section and 8 years time series. The result of estimate shows that producitivity of labor and capital and information and technology industry is positive, total factor productivity of information and technology industry is also positive. but total factor productivity decreased after 2008. In addition, the productivity of labor was increased, but the productivity of capital input was decreased. It means that the productivity of Korean information and technology industry was not improved despite increasing of labor and capital investment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.321-329
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of R&D investment on productivity growth of the Korean Economy in the New Normal Era. To be specific, this study focuses on the impact of R&D capital, other capitals, and total factor productivity(TFP) on the labor productivity during the three periods: 1970-2014, 1970-1997, and 1999-2014. We found out that the change of the intensity in the R&D capital and other capitals significantly impacted on the change of the labor productivity in Korea. In particular, the estimated coefficients of these variables are higher after the period of the IMF financial crisis than before the crisis. We also estimated the marginal productivity of R&D capital investment in terms of the TFP growth. The estimated coefficients of the variables showed stronger effects after the period of the IMF financial crisis than before the crisis. As a result, the increase of R&D investment has been greatly impacted on the growth of the total factor productivity(TFP) after the IMF financial crisis in Korea.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.75-114
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• 2010

This paper examines empirically whether information and communication technology(ICT) has improved total factor productivity at industry level in Korea, considering time lag between ICT capital accumulation and improvement of productivity. To evaluate if ICT is pervasive enough to raise productivity, ICT capital stock of Korea is compared with those of advanced economies. From the perspective of aggregate economy, the ICT capital in Korea has increased fast since the mid-1990s and became comparable with advanced economies. However it is mostly attributed to rapid growth of ICT-producing industries. In other industries, ICT capital are still less accumulated than advanced economies. Growth accounting results exhibit that the productivity has risen faster since 2000 in industries using ICT intensively, but looking into specific industries, it is not likely for ICT to be the main factor of productivity improvement except in business service industry. Regression results provide some evidence that ICT is useful in raising productivity only after considerable amount of time allowed. To fully exploit the positive effect of ICT on productivity, it may be necessary for the Korean economy to create institutional environment facilitating complementary innovations as well as ICT captial accumulation.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.29-53
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• 2011

This paper studies the contribution of imports and inward foreign direct investment (FDI) as a vehicle of technology transfer onto the EU new member states at both macroeconomic and industry level. The paper takes the effectiveness of the recipient's utilization into account by constructing a new index, the so-called Effective Absorption (EA) Index, to measure ability to absorb and utilize the foreign technology in the recipient country. Using data from 12 donors and 10 recipients from 1998 to 2009, the study at macroeconomic level indicates that technical spillovers of foreign research and development (R&D) play more crucial role relatively to domestic R&D on total factor productivity (TFP) growth of the new member states. Imports are found as the major vehicle of technical spillovers rather than inward FDI. The study at industry level is conducted by using data from 17 manufacturing industries of 10 donors and 6 recipients during 1998 to 2009. The empirical results also support the findings at country level. The patterns of technology transfer are different across industries. Nonetheless, technical spillovers exhibit significantly high contribution on TFP growth in high-tech manufacturing industries.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.27-59
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• 2008

This paper empirically investigates the finance-growth linkage in Korea by utilizing firm-level data of manufacturing industries before and after the 1997 financial crisis. We find that, first, an increase in external finance is associated with a faster subsequent capital accumulation of firms. However, this capital accumulation channel became relatively attenuated after the crisis. Second, the total factor productivity growth effect of external finance has been considerably weak both before and after the crisis. Third, the information production and industry restructuring effects of external finance have also remained weak after the crisis. The limited role of external finance in post-crisis Korea partially reflects sluggish corporate investment and weakening dependence of good credit firms on external finance. The evidence suggests that, in order to effectively sustain economic growth, further reform efforts may be required to strengthen resource allocation and corporate restructuring roles of financial markets and institutions.