• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.79-109
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• 2008

According to asymmetric information hypothesis (for example, Ross (1977), Myers and Majluf (1984)), the impact of seasoned equity offering (SEO) announcement on the stock price depends mainly on the informational market efficiency. Despite of the importance of this fact, most of the previous SEO-related studies have done under the assumption of equal informational market efficiency among sample firms. This study intends to solve this problematic assumption and explores the real impact of SEO announcement on the stock prices. For this purpose, we divide 122 SEO firms into two subgroups; one with firms from KOSPI200 and the other including firms from the rest of KOSPI, assuming the former is more informationally efficient than the latter. Different from the US market-based study demonstrating short-and long-term negative price impacts of SEO announcement, most of the Korean market-based ones show price increases up until the announcement and decreases just after the announcement and in the long run. These previous studies attribute this difference to the different market system and regulation between them. Our results indicate that this discrepancy can be attributed to the different degree of market efficiency as well as the different market system and regulation.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.1-25
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• 2002

본 논문은 한국의 대표적인 두 시장, 코스닥시장과 증권거래소간의 투자전략을 비대칭적 정보가정에서 모형화하고, 정보상의 비대칭요소를 추정하여 최적포트폴리오를 구하는데 목적이 있다. 정보상에 비대칭적 시장들에서는 그 시장에 독특한 위험프리미엄이 존재하게 되는데, 이는 시장간의 효율적 포트폴리오를 구성하는데 있어서 비체계적 위험과 체계적 위험간의 구분이 불분명해지는 상황을 의미하며, 따라서 최적포트폴리오도 보다 복잡한 구조를 갖게 된다. 본 연구는 분석적 차원에서 정보상에 비대칭적인 것으로 가정되는 두 자본시장, 즉 코스닥시장과 증권거래소에서의 최적포트폴리오 전략을 살펴보고, 두 시장간의 비대칭성이 주는 의미와 그것이 최적 투자정책에 미치는 영향의 정도를 분석하고, 비대칭적인 두 시장에서의 균형조건을 살펴본다. 먼저, 최적포트폴리오 전략을 살펴보고, 자산가격 움직임에 있어서 차익거래의 영향을 분석하며 이에 대한 정보상으로 비대칭적인 두 시장간의 포트폴리오 전략과의 관계도 분석하였다. 이어서 비대칭적 상황을 발생시키는 다양한 요소들을 살펴보며 이와 같은 정보비대칭요소가 기대수익수준에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해 확률과정의 최적화 방법을 이용하여 추정하였다. 따라서 관련정보를 보유하지 못한 일반투자자들의 경우, 이 추정치를 이용하여 새로운 포트폴리오를 구성하게 될 것이다. 이 또한 불편추정치로서 최적포트폴리오로서의 역할을 하고 있는 것으로 해석된다. 그러나 비대칭요소 추정치의 정확도를 높이기 위해서는 정보를 확보하여야 하며 이에 따라 정보비용도 증가하게 되며 이 또한 최적포트폴리오의 수익성에 영향을 미치게 된다. 따라서 정보비용수준을 포트폴리오의 수익성을 고려하여 결정하여야 하며 이 점에 있어서 본 연구는 어떤 조건하에서 정보비용을 감안한 코스닥시장에의 투자결정이 이루어질 수 있는지를 분석하고 그 기준을 확률적 방법을 이용하여 제시하였다.

• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.177-219
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• 2016

A commercial advertisement is not only a way of competition but also a medium of communication. Thus, it is under the constitutional protection of the freedom of business (article 15 of the Constitution) as well as the freedom of press [article 21 (1) of the Constitution]. In terms of the freedom of business or competition, it should be noted that an unfair advertising (false or misleading advertisement) can be regulated as an unfair competition, while any restraint on advertising other than unfair one might be doubted as an unjustifiable restraint of trade. In terms of the freedom of press or communication, it is important that article 21 (2) of the Constitution forbids any kind of (prior) censorship, and the Constitutional Court applies this restriction even to commercial advertising. In this article, the applicability of these schemes to advertising of the so-called learned professions, especially physician, are to be examined, and some proposals for the reformation of the current regulatory regime are to be made. Main arguments of this article can be summarized as follows: First, the current regime which requires advance review of physician advertising as prescribed in article 56 (2) no. 9 of Medical Act should be reformed. It does not mean that the current interpretation of article 21 of the Constitution is agreeable. Though a commercial advertising is a way of communication and can be protected by article 21 (1) of the Constitution, it should not be under the prohibition of censorship prescribed by article 21 (2) of the Constitution. The Constitutional Court adopts the opposite view, however. It is doubtful that physician advertising needs some prior restraint, also. Of course, there exists severe informational asymmetry between physicians and patients and medical treatment might harm the life and health of patients irrevocably, so that medical treatment can be discerned from other services. It is civil and criminal liability for medical malpractice and duty to inform and not regulation on physician advertising, to address these differences or problems. Advance review should be abandoned and repelled, or substituted by more unproblematic way of regulation such as an accreditation of reviewed advertising or a self-regulation preformed by physician association independently from the Ministry of Health and Welfare or any other governmental agencies. Second, the substantive criteria for unfair physician advertising also should correspond that of unfair advertising in general. Some might argue that a learned profession, especially medical practice, is totally different from other businesses. It is performed under the professional ethics and should not persue commercial interest; medical practice in Korea is governed by the National Health Insurance system, the stability of which might be endangered when commercial competition in medical practice be allowed. Medical Act as well as the condition of medical practice market do not exclude competition between physicians. The fact is quite the opposite. Physicians are competing even though under the professional ethics and obligations and all the restrictions provided by the National Health Insurance system. In this situation, regulation on physician advertising might constitute unjustifiable restraint of competition, especially a kind of entry barrier for 'new physicians.'

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.1-33
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• 2019

The small and medium sized enterprises (hereinafter SMEs) are already at a competitive disadvantaged when compared to large companies with more abundant resources. Manufacturing SMEs not only need a lot of information needed for new product development for sustainable growth and survival, but also seek networking to overcome the limitations of resources, but they are faced with limitations due to their size limitations. In a new era in which connectivity increases the complexity and uncertainty of the business environment, SMEs are increasingly urged to find information and solve networking problems. In order to solve these problems, the government funded research institutes plays an important role and duty to solve the information asymmetry problem of SMEs. The purpose of this study is to identify the differentiating characteristics of SMEs that utilize the public information support infrastructure provided by SMEs to enhance the innovation capacity of SMEs, and how they contribute to corporate performance. We argue that we need an infrastructure for providing information support to SMEs as part of this effort to strengthen of the role of government funded institutions; in this study, we specifically identify the target of such a policy and furthermore empirically demonstrate the effects of such policy-based efforts. Our goal is to help establish the strategies for building the information supporting infrastructure. To achieve this purpose, we first classified the characteristics of SMEs that have been found to utilize the information supporting infrastructure provided by government funded institutions. This allows us to verify whether selection bias appears in the analyzed group, which helps us clarify the interpretative limits of our study results. Next, we performed mediator and moderator effect analysis for multiple variables to analyze the process through which the use of information supporting infrastructure led to an improvement in external networking capabilities and resulted in enhancing product competitiveness. This analysis helps identify the key factors we should focus on when offering indirect support to SMEs through the information supporting infrastructure, which in turn helps us more efficiently manage research related to SME supporting policies implemented by government funded institutions. The results of this study showed the following. First, SMEs that used the information supporting infrastructure were found to have a significant difference in size in comparison to domestic R&D SMEs, but on the other hand, there was no significant difference in the cluster analysis that considered various variables. Based on these findings, we confirmed that SMEs that use the information supporting infrastructure are superior in size, and had a relatively higher distribution of companies that transact to a greater degree with large companies, when compared to the SMEs composing the general group of SMEs. Also, we found that companies that already receive support from the information infrastructure have a high concentration of companies that need collaboration with government funded institution. Secondly, among the SMEs that use the information supporting infrastructure, we found that increasing external networking capabilities contributed to enhancing product competitiveness, and while this was no the effect of direct assistance, we also found that indirect contributions were made by increasing the open marketing capabilities: in other words, this was the result of an indirect-only mediator effect. Also, the number of times the company received additional support in this process through mentoring related to information utilization was found to have a mediated moderator effect on improving external networking capabilities and in turn strengthening product competitiveness. The results of this study provide several insights that will help establish policies. KISTI's information support infrastructure may lead to the conclusion that marketing is already well underway, but it intentionally supports groups that enable to achieve good performance. As a result, the government should provide clear priorities whether to support the companies in the underdevelopment or to aid better performance. Through our research, we have identified how public information infrastructure contributes to product competitiveness. Here, we can draw some policy implications. First, the public information support infrastructure should have the capability to enhance the ability to interact with or to find the expert that provides required information. Second, if the utilization of public information support (online) infrastructure is effective, it is not necessary to continuously provide informational mentoring, which is a parallel offline support. Rather, offline support such as mentoring should be used as an appropriate device for abnormal symptom monitoring. Third, it is required that SMEs should improve their ability to utilize, because the effect of enhancing networking capacity through public information support infrastructure and enhancing product competitiveness through such infrastructure appears in most types of companies rather than in specific SMEs.