• 농업과학연구
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.424-439
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• 2017

This study was undertaken to examine the profit efficiency and its determining factors, the investment opportunity, and the challenges of shea butter producers in the northern region of Ghana. The methods employed in this research were the Stochastic Profit Frontier (SPF) model, gain-cost and investment return analyses, as well as Kendall's W statistic using primary data collected from 120 purposively-selected respondents. Results from the analysis indicated that profit efficiency was positively influenced by sex, household size, marital status, educational level, transportation cost, store rent, and price of shea nut with a gain in profit efficiency of 58.5%. The investment analysis demonstrated a net gain per person of $8,077 equivalent to GH₵ 28,270 Ghanaian cedi (GH₵) using 2016 exchange rate (GH₵ 3.5 = $1). Among the challenges identified, the poor quality of shea nuts was the most prioritised challenge with 72.8% agreement among the respondents. Based on these findings, it was recommended that proper training and education, as well as improvement in shea nut quality, should be promoted to improve the profit efficiency of shea butter producers.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2528-2534
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• 2011

본 연구는 106개 국가 간 통계자료를 사용해 인구구조의 변화와 교육투자의 효율성 간의 관계를 검토했다. 선행연구에 기초해 전체인구 대비 청소년층 인구비율과 교육투자의 효율성과 간에는 음(-)의 관계가 존재하는 반면, 노인층 인구비율과 교육투자의 효율성 간에는 양(+)의 관계가 존재한다는 가설을 설정했다. 실증분석 결과 이상의 가설은 표본이나 모형의 선택에 상관없이 성립하는 것으로 추정됐다. 따라서 본 연구의 결과는 고령화와 저출산으로 인해 생산가능인구 감소가 심각한 사회문제로 인식되고 있는 우리나라와 같은 국가의 경우 보다 교육비지출이 효율적으로 이뤄져야 하며, 교육성과를 극대화하기 위한 제도적 장치를 마련해야 한다는 시사점을 제공한다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.136-144
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• 2020

선행연구에서는 노동투자비효율성이 정보비대칭이 심하고, 경영자와 외부 투자자들간의 대리인 문제가 클수록 발생한다고 보고하였다. 따라서 노동투자의 비효율성이 높은 기업의 경우 경영자가 기업가치를 훼손시킬 수 있는 기회주의적 의사결정을 내릴 가능성이 높아진다. 이에 본 연구는 시장에서 투자자들이 비효율적으로 노동투자 의사결정이 이루어지는 기업들의 회계정보를 투자의사결정에 유용하게 사용할 가능성이 낮아짐에 따라 노동투자 비효율성이 높아질수록 회계정보의 가치관련성이 감소하는지 살펴보고자 한다. 노동투자효율성은 기업의 실제 노동투자수준과 예상되는 적정노동투자수준의 차이로 측정하여 이 차이가 커질수록 노동투자가 비효율적으로 이루어지는 것으로 판단하였다. 2002년부터 2018년까지 한국거래소에 상장된 기업의 데이터를 사용하여 분석한 결과, 노동투자에 대한 비효율성이 증가할수록 회계이익의 가치관련성이 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 기업의 경쟁력에 중요한 요인으로 작용하는 인력에 대한 투자가 비효율적으로 이루어지는 기업일수록 회계이익에 대한 정보 유용성이 감소한다는 실증적인 근거를 제시하였다는 측면에서 공헌점을 찾을 수 있다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.358-365
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of government investment in the deployment and technological development of three technological areas - wind power, photovoltaic and fuel cell - of renewable energy in Korea using the DEA (data envelopment analysis). The efficiencies of government investment in renewable energies are measured and compared among three kinds of technologies using the actual data during 2007~2009. In the present DEA model, R&D investment and government subsidies for renewable energy usage promotion are selected as input variables, and the number of patents, supply level, and the production cost as output variable. As a result, it is found that the wind power is the most efficient renewable energy in Korea in the perspective of the efficiency of government investment.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.62-68
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• 2019

The growth and employment effects of R&D investment were analyzed according to business size, export value and manufacturing sectors so as to suggest improvement directions for effective industry policies. The effect of R&D investment was considered simultaneously from the two perspectives of growth and employment effect, and the causality analysis was carried out by using a path analysis. The result of the path analysis confirmed significant differences in the growth effect of R&D investment depending on business size. However, the effect of increasing employment was difficult to obtain statistically significant results for any various combinations of business size and export value. This is a mixture of directions for the effects of R&D investment on employment, which could be due to the failure to consider appropriate time lags between investment and effect. Efficiency analysis by industry sectors confirmed significant differences in efficiency depending on business size, but differences depending on export value were difficult to identify. In order to derive improvement policy by industry sector according to business size and export value, the direction of selective support policy and universal support policy was derived for six industry groups by combining the return to scale in the efficiency analysis and R&D concentration. Hirschman-Herfindahl index is used for calculating R&D concentration.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.8-15
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• 2019

Korea's R&D investment has significantly increased in recent years and the quantitative outputs such as number of papers and patents have also increased with the investment. However, the quality of R&D outputs has not been fully addressed. In particular, quality of technical performance, such as the quality of patents, has attracted little attention. In this paper, a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method was used to construct models for efficiency analysis of R&D investment, focused on quality of technical performance. Indices were proposed to analyze the quantitative and qualitative efficiencies of R&D investment. In order to effectively analyze R&D efficiencies, the measurement units of the input and output variables were standardized. Based on cases of livestock quarantine R&D projects of Korea, the quantitative and qualitative efficiencies of national R&D projects were analyzed and factors that would influence R&D efficiencies were identified. This paper suggests that both quantitative and qualitative efficiencies should be considered when measuring R&D efficiency. Also, it is recommended to carefully consider the characteristics of R&D projects during project selection stage.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.291-308
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• 2011

정부의 '저탄소 녹색성장' 정책기조의 실현가능성 여부는 에너지절약 자본시설에 투자할 경우 과연 산업의 생산성 증가로 이어질 수 있는지 여부에 달려 있다. 본 논문에서는 1차 금속산업을 대상으로 쌍대 비용함수로부터 총 요소생산성을 정의하고 산업생산성 증가의 요인별 분석을 통하여 에너지효율화 투자의 생산성 증가 파급효과를 측정하였다. 1982년~2006년 기간 동안 에너지효율화 투자로 인하여 평균적으로 연간 생산성은 1.16% 포인트 증가한 것으로 추정되었다. 또한 규모경제효과는 에너지효율화 투자의 생산성 증가 기여도를 향상시키는 것으로 나타났다.

• 재무관리연구
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.55-75
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• 1986

This article is to analyse the economic efficiency of capital market, which plays a role of resource allocation in terms of financial claims such as stock and bond. It provides various contributions to the welfare theoretical aspects of modern capital market theory. The key feature that distinguishes the theory described here from traditional welfare theory is the presence of uncertainty. Securities has time dimensions and the state and outcome of the future are really uncertain. This problem resulting from this uncertainty can be solved by complete market, but it has a weak power to explain real stock market. Capital Market is faced with the uncertainity because it is a kind of incomplete market. Individuals and firms in capital market made their consumption-investment decision by their own criteria, i. e. the maximization of expected utility form intertemporal consumption and the maximization of the market value of firm. We noted that allocative decisions that had to be made in the economy could be naturally subdivided into two groups. One set of decisions concerned the allocation of first-period resources among consumption $C_i$, investment in risky firms $I_j$, and riskless investment M. The other decisions concern the distribution among individuals of income available in the second period $Y_i(\theta)$. Corresponing to this grouping, the theoretical analysis of efficiency has also been dichotomized. The optimality of the distribution of output in the second period is distributive efficiency" and the optimality of the allocation of first-period resources is 'the efficiency of investment'. We have found in the distributive efficiency that the conditions for attainability is the same as the conditions for market optimality. The necessary and sufficient conditions for attainability or market optimality is that (1) all utility functions are such that -$\frac{{U_i}^'(Y_i)}{{U_i}^"(Y_i)}={\mu}_i+{\lambda}Y_i$-linear risk tolerance function where the coefficients ${\mu}_i$ and $\lambda$ are independent of $Y_i$, and (2) there are homogeneous expectations, i. e. ${\Large f}_i(\theta)={\Large f}(\theta)$ for every i. On the other hand, the efficiency of investment has disagreement about optimal investment level. The investment level for market rule will not generally lead to Pareto-optimal allocation of investment. This suboptimality is caused by (1)the difference of Diamond's decomposable production function and mean-variance valuation model and (2) the selection of exelusive investment or competitive investment. In conclusion, this article has made an analysis of conditions and processes of Pareto-optimal allocation of resources in capital marker and tried to connect with significant issues in modern finance.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2016

Objectives : This study examined relations between investment efficiency and management performance as indexes related to productivity of Korean regional public hospitals. Methods : The analysis data are financial information of Korean regional public hospitals from 2011 to 2014. For the indicators, value added to total assets, value added to productive activity tangible fixed assets, and value added to personnel expenses, operating margin to revenues, net profit to total earnings, and ratio of value added. Results : Significant relevance was not shown among indicators of investment efficiency. However, Significant relevance was shown between value added to personnel expense and productivity per value added. Conclusions : It confirmed that outside support funds like subsidy did not have effect on improving the management performance. Also, it could be known that availability about input of capital and labor was not realized organically.

• 기술경영경제학회:학술대회논문집
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• 기술경영경제학회 2002년도 제20회 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.59-89
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• 2002

The rapid diffusion of information and telecommunication (IT) technologies during the recent decennia produced fundamental changes in the economic activity at a global level, resulting in what became coined as the "new economy". However, empirical evidence on the contribution of IT equipment to growth and productivity is at best mixed, with the more or less consistent results on the positive link between the two relating to the United States in the 1990-s. Although the empirical literature on the link between IT investment and economic performance employs a wide variety of methodologies, the overwhelming majority of the studies appears to be employing the assumption of linearity of the IT-performance relationship and predominantly explores the direct nature thereof. In this study we relax both these assumptions and find that the indirect, or aggregate productive efficiency, effects of IT investment are as important as are the direct ones The estimated non-linear nature of the indirect relationship between IT investment intensity and productive efficiency accommodates the concepts of critical mass and complementary (infrastructure) capital offered in the literature. Our key finding is that the world economy′s average level of IT investment intensity remained below the estimated critical mass. Since in this study we developed a methodology that allows one to explicitly measure the critical mass of IT investment intensity, its individual estimation at a country or industrialsector level may help evaluate the extent to which IT investment activity has to be encouraged or discouraged.