• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.413-421
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• 2021

Government expenditure on education has attracted much attention because it plays an important role in the economic development. The question is whether government expenditure on education has a positive or negative impact on the economic growth and vice versa. This study aims to provide reliable estimates of the relationship between government expenditure on education and economic growth with empirical evidence in Vietnam for the period 2006-2019. The data was taken from the official statistics of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam. The authors have used the VAR model and Granger causal model to determine the relationship between government expenditure on education and the economic growth. Research results show that there is a two-way nexus between the economic growth and government spending on education with a lag of about two years. From the results obtained from this research, the authors have made some policy suggestions for the Vietnamese government as how to increase investment for education. If there is a one-way causal relationship between expenditure on education and the economic growth, the government can use spending as a growth factor. However, if there is a bi-directional relationship between the government expenditure on education and the GDP growth, the government needs to ensure that resources are appropriately managed and allocated effectively to promote growth.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제41권
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• pp.68-92
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to analyze the determinants of social welfare expenditure in local government. The period of 1995 through 1998 data in Seoul, 6 other metropolitan areas, and 9 provinces (Do) were selected and pooled as unit of analysis and total 8 independent variables were selected based on the theoretical background and previous studies. The pooled cross-sectional time-series regression using SPSS program was adapted for the analysis. Among selected independent variables, the rate of economic expenditure to the local government expenditure, the rate of financial self-reliance, and the increase rate of social welfare expenditure to the previous year has been played a significant role in the rate of social welfare expenditure to the total expenditure. Both the rate of economic expenditure and rate of financial self-reliance have had a negative impacts on the rate of social welfare expenditure and the increase rate of social welfare expenditure have affected the rate of social welfare expenditure positively. Therefore, the variables based on the economic constraint theory as well as incrementalism perspective gives greater explanatory power of the social welfare expenditure than the variables on the political choice theory in Korean local government.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.629-640
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• 2022

본 연구는 2002-2020년 기간의 지역 데이터를 사용하여 지방정부규모와 지역경제성장 간의 관계를 분석하였다. 지방정부지출을 사회개발비와 경제개발비로 나누어 GRDP 성장률과 역U자 형태의 Armey 곡선의 관계가 존재하는지 검증하고, 최적의 지방정부지출의 수준을 살펴보고자 하였다. 특히, 추정방법에 있어서 패널자료에 존재하는 횡단면 의존성과 지역별 이질성을 고려한 AMG 추정법을 활용하였다. 분석 결과, 총지방재정지출 및 사회개발비의 규모와 지역경제성장 간에 역U자형 관계가 나타났고, 경제개발비와 지역경제성장 간에는 역U자형 관계가 존재하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 총지방재정지출 비중이 GRDP 대비 7.63%일 때, 사회개발비 비중은 3.45%일 때 지역경제성장률을 극대화할 수 있는 최적의 지출규모인 것으로 나타났다. 지방정부는 이러한 점을 고려하여 공공지출 정책의 실효성을 높여야 한다.

• 무역학회지
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.15-24
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• 2019

The study conducted an empirical analysis of the impact of FDI on economic growth in four Asian countries: China, India, Vietnam and Korea. With panel data for the 1990-2017 period, the research model was developed for foreign direct investment (FDI), export amount (EX), government expenditure (G), exchange rate (EXR), and labourable population (L). The panel analysis results show that the increase in FDI, exports, government expenditure, labourable population significantly increased economic growth. The comparison analysis for each country revealed that FDI, exports and government expenditure significantly affect economic growth in China, that exports and government expenditure significantly affect economic growth in Korea, that FDI significantly affected economic growth in Vietnam, and that the increase in the workforce contributed to economic development in India. This paper characterized the different factors of economic growth in the four Asian countries. These results suggest that setting economic priorities to suit the specific economic conditions of each country is a shortcut to more efficient economic growth.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2022

The size of the government is one of the most fundamental debates of open economies. In any economy, government plays an important role, but a pertinent level of economic prosperity has never been obtained in history without government. Therefore, the objective of this paper investigates the association of government size, economic volatility, and institutional quality for 182 economies from the time period 1996-2016 is collected from the World Bank database. GE is defined as the General government's final consumption expenditure. Health expenditure is represented by HE. Government expenditure on education is denoted by EDUEXP. The economic volatility is measured by the rolling standard deviation of GDP per capita growth rate, Population growth, Trade openness, GINI represented Gini index which measures the degree to which the income distributed or consumption expenses among citizens deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. The results proposed that economic volatility has a significant effect on government size and institutional qualities. Moreover, the paper extends the investigation by finding the link between economic volatility with government health and education expenditure separately. The policy implication drawn from this analysis is that controlling economic volatility may reduce the size of government and also significantly affect health and education expenditures.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.188-194
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 83개 국가 간 통계자료를 이용해 부패와 정부지출의 변동성 간의 관련성을 검토했다. 한 국가의 부패의 정도는 Kaufmann et al.(2008)에서 제공한 부패의 통제와 국제투명성기구에서 제공한 부패인식지수로 나타내며, 정부지출의 변동성은 1990~2005년 기간의 연도별 정부지출 변동률의 표준편차를 이용한다. 실증분석 결과한 국가의 부패의 통제와 부패인식지수(높은 수치일수록 투명함)는 정부지출의 변동성에 통계적으로 유의한 음(-)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 추정됐다. 그러나 한 국가의 부패의 정도를 부패인식지수로 나타낼 경우 그 추정계수의 통계적 유의성은 다소 감소했다. 이상의 결과는 유럽의 OECD 국가를 제외한 작은 수의 표본에 대해서도 여전히 성립했다. 그러므로 본 연구의 실증분석 결과는 부패한 국가의 정부관리 혹은 정치인은 경제운영과 관련된 규칙을 불규칙적으로 변동시켜 자신들의 영역을 강화시키려는 경향이 있기 때문에 정부지출의 변동성이 상대적으로 크게 나타날 가능성을 시사한다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권10호
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• pp.471-480
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• 2020

In Indonesia, micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are introduced to increase income by providing many easier jobs to improve economic growth. They have also been reported to be generally supportive of the local industry. The government policies on investment and expenditure have the ability to promote MSMEs and economic growth. Therefore, this research was conducted to analyze the theoretical background and empirical study to investigate government's role to promote MSMEs growth in Indonesia. The secondary data after the 2008 global financial crisis recorded quarterly from 2009 to 2019 Q3 were analyzed using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression model. The results showed government expenditure has a positive and significant contribution to small- and medium-sized enterprises, but the effect was not significant for micro-businesses. Meanwhile, the investment sector was discovered to have a positive and significant effect on MSMEs. The policy implications of the Indonesian government are expected to focus on its expenditure's role as the most important factor for "social-economic protection of the community" through micro-enterprises, which are numerous and more attached to the real community economic-social life. Therefore, the existence of micro-businesses is very helpful for the lower classes despite their high vulnerability to crisis.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-26
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• 2013

본 연구는 정부연구개발투자가 민간부문의 고용에 미치는 장기적인 효과를 검증하기 위해 국내 23개 제조업 부문을 대상으로 패널분석을 수행하였다. 1990년대 중반 이후 IT의 급속한 발전과 더불어 국내 제조업 고용구조에 큰 영향을 준 IMF 구제금융에 따른 산업구조 조정기를 중심으로 전체 표본기간을 IMF 이전과 이후로 나누어 정부연구개발투자가 기업의 고용수요에 미친 영향을 실증분석한 결과 다음의 결과를 도출하였다. 첫째, 정부연구 개발투자는 단기적으로는 고용을 감소시키는 효과를 나타내지만 시간이 지나면서 신제품 혹은 신산업 창출로 인한 고용의 보상효과가 이를 상쇄하면서 고용창출에 긍정적인 효과를 가진다. 둘째, 민간연구개발투자의 고용창출 효과가 정부연구개발투자의 효과보다 3배 이상 크다. 셋째, 기업의 노동수요에 비용요인인 임금 및 이자율은 높은 유의수준으로 고용에 부정적인 영향을 미치고 있다. 이러한 결과는 향후 정부연구개발투자가 새로운 고용창출을 위한 정책수단으로 활용될 수 있다는 정책적 함의를 제공한다.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.583-592
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• 2016

In this study, we attempt to provide empirical evidence for the effect of the expenditure of the local governments on the air quality management. Based on the statistical data, the concentrations of air pollutants including $PM_{10}$, $O_3$, and $NO_2$ were analyzed in accordance with local characteristics of the local governments' environmental expenditure, demographic characteristics, and economic and human resources between 2008 and 2014. The results showed that government spending is estimated to have insignificant impact on air pollutants concentration. All these results are consistently corroborated from the analysis based on different alternative measure of local governments' expenditure (budget composition and measure of expenditure residuals). Subsequently, this study implies that environmental expenditures of local governments have not been effectively enforced to enhance the air quality of the region in Korea.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.79-97
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• 2003

R&D expenditure of Korean firms has been increasing drastically since 1980 and occupied 84% of total R&D expenditure in 1994. After 1994, however, the growth rate of industry R&D expenditure has dropped below single digit. R&D concentration rate of upper 20 companies declined from 61.9% in 1999 to 49.8% in 2001. The technology trade balance has diverged by 2.8 billion dollars in 2000 compared to around 0.3 billion dollars in 1985. We find several reasons on declining the industry R&D growth rate in Korea. First, we carefully say there might be an crowding out effect in increasing government R&D investment from Granger causality test between industry R&D and government R&D. Second, the decreasing benefit of tax credit since 1992 on industry R&D expenditure has caused the decrease of industry R&D growth rate. Third, the type of R&D cost becomes to similar to matured countries type of cost, which means the portion of capital expenditure has been decreased since late of 1980s. Therefore, industry R&D growth rate gets to saturation point. We draw several policy implications from the changing structure of business R&D of Korean company. Firstly, to stimulate industry R&D investment Korean government needs to strengthen tax credit policy. Secondly, to induce foreign direct investment Korean government needs to establish technology infrastructures and high quality of manpower. To utilize foreign technology resources Korean government need to introduce global R&D program executed by foreign scientist as an Project Leader.