• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.385-432
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• 2017

This paper investigates how firm age, size and ownership are related with job creation and destruction, and how these patterns differ across transition and non-transition economies. The analysis finds that age is inversely related with gross job creation and net job creation in the two samples. This finding is consistent with the theory of the learning effect. The relationship between age and job destruction is indifferent in non-transition economies. On the contrary, old firms in transition economies destroy more jobs than young ones. The paper further establishes an inverse relationship between size and gross job creation in the two groups. However, there is divergence between the two samples; small firms in non-transition economies also exhibit a higher gross job destruction rate. Consequently large firms have a higher net job creation rate. In transition economies, small and large firms exhibit similar rates of job destruction. But small firms retain a higher net job creation rate. A more intriguing finding is that state owned firms do not underperform domestic private ones. This means these countries may be using soft budget constraint which allows state owned firms to overstaff. Finally, crowding out of SMEs by foreign owned firms is not evident in transition economies.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.273-309
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• 2021

The development of regulatory systems varies between transition and non-transition economies. This suggests that they provide different incentives for entrepreneurial development and could have varied effects on the economy because they have different methods to deal with market failure. However, limited empirical evidence exists to prove the assumption of dichotomy. Using comprehensive data for institutional quality, labor market and financial market development, this research sought to analyze their effect on employment growth at micro level. The results show that the quality of institutions in transition economies are poorer relative to those in non-transition economies, but their financial and labor markets are more developed than the latter. Further analysis for the transition sample shows that the three variables are individually positively related with employment growth. For the non-transition sample, institutional quality and labor market flexibility bear a positive and significant effect on employment. Financial market development enters the model with a negative coefficient when regressed alone, but a joint test of significance finds that all the variables have a positive effect on employment growth. This result could imply that there is interdependence between institutional quality, labor flexibility and financial market development in firm-employment-growth relationship, or complementarity between regulations and the quality of institutions. Alternatively, this finding suggests that a stringently regulated credit market in non-transition economies have a selection effect-allocating credit only to entrepreneurs who already demonstrate strong growth potential. In sum, despite differences in the evolution of regulatory environment between the two samples, both of them complement employment growth at firm level. The overall implication of these findings is that less rigid regulations and coherent policies that are enforced with impartiality provide incentives for firms to expand.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.117-140
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• 2018

WTO was established in 1995 and as many as 36 new members joined WTO until December 2017. Thus it would be interesting to see if new members have committed higher or lower levels of market opening compared to the original members. In this regard, a sophisticated scoring scheme is needed to quantify market opening commitments. After proper econometric model is established for the original members, same model can be applied to the new members for comparison. It was found that new members committed a much higher level of commitment than the original members. In addition, it was also found that transition economies committed higher levels than the non-transition economies. More interesting finding is that among the new members, the larger the economies or the larger the trading volume are, the closer was the level of commitment to the predicted level. Then the question is whether this difference was due to benign neglect by the new members or due to malign select by the original members.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2022

The paper aims to examine the impact of exports on the growth of Vietnamese manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by exploring the information of 36,053 enterprises across 24 manufacturing sectors from the Vietnam Annual Enterprise Survey (VAES) in the period 2014-2019. To deal with the problem of variable variance, autocorrelation, and endogeneity of the model, the paper uses the OLS regression method with a strong standard error method and system GMM. Export participation by SMEs is positively associated with business growth in terms of sales and total assets, according to the findings. The GMM estimate shows that the rate of sales growth among exporters is 36.5 percent greater than that of non-exporting enterprises in the case of the sales growth measure. Exporters' average total asset growth rate is 19% greater than the rate estimated for non-exporting businesses. The study's findings indicate the need of adopting policies that promote SMEs in transition economies like Vietnam to engage in exporting activities. Furthermore, the findings show that financial assistance and suitable ownership would enable SMEs to take advantage of export opportunities to increase sales and total assets.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.153-195
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• 2010

세계금융위기의 근본적인 원인은 시장과 제도의 괴리에서 나오는 '제도의 실패'라고 할 수 있다. 특히 현재의 국제통화제도는 무제도(non-system)나 다름없다고 할 수 있다. 현재 당면하고 있는 국제통화제도의 문제점들을 볼 때 개편 방향의 핵심은 (1) 수요 측면에서는 과대한 외환보유고를 축적하려는 인센티브를 어떻게 줄일 수 있을 것인가 하는 것이며, (2) 공급 측면에서는 현재 미국 달러화에 주로 의존하고 있는 제도를 탈피, 보다 다양한 국제통화 혹은 대체적 외화준비자산(SDR을 포함하여)으로 전환해 나가거나 혹은 보다 근본적인 개혁방안으로서 새로운 세계통화(global reserve currency)를 창출하는 것이다. 그리고 (3) 이러한 변화를 뒷받침 하기 위해 필요한 기구적 개편, 특히 IMF의 개혁을 추진하는 것이다. 이러한 개편은 현실적 국제역학관계로 볼 때 오직 점진적으로 일어날 수 있는 것이다. 따라서 현재 세계경제의 안정적 성장을 위해 중요한 것은 이러한 개편을 점진적으로 추진함과 동시에 주요국 간의 거시경제정책공조를 이뤄 나가는 것이다. 이러한 과정을 원활히 해나가기 위해서는 효율적인 세계경제 지배구조를 갖추는 것이 필수적이다. 세계금융위기 이후 출범한 G20 정상회의가 효율적인 협의체가 되기 위해서는 의사결정이 원활히 이루어질 수 있는 방안과 장치를 세워나갈 필요가 있다. 사무국(secretariat) 혹은 그와 유사한 기능을 행사할 수 있는 조직의 설립과 위원회제도 같은 것을 활용할 필요가 있을 것으로 보인다.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.51-69
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• 2020

본 논문은 ICT 산업분야에서 신생기업이 기업공개(IPO) 이후 단기간 내에 기존 기업에 인수합병됨으로써 산업의 집중도가 높아지는 현상을 실증적으로 규명하였다. 이를 위해 1990년대 이후 기업공개를 한 4,938개 기업에 대해 산업분야를 구분하고 인수합병 여부에 따른 상태 변화를 추적하여 산업의 집중도에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 먼저 시기별로 분석한 결과, 2000년대 이후 기업들은 1990년대 기업들에 비해 상대적으로 단기간 내에 기존 기업에 인수합병된 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 이들 기업은 규모, 수익성 및 연구개발비 등이 시장에서 퇴출된 기업에 비해 양호한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 산업분야별로 분석한 결과, 동일한 산업분야로 인수합병되는 경우가 증가할수록 산업의 집중도 역시 증가한 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 산업분야별로 지배적 기업의 존재여부를 분석한 결과, 지배적 기업이 존재할 경우 인수합병이 산업의 집중도에 미치는 영향이 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 특히 지배적 기업의 비중이 높은 ICT 분야에서 산업의 집중도에 미치는 영향이 더욱 크게 부각되는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 알파벳, 아마존 등이 공격적으로 신생기업을 인수합병하고 시장에서의 지배력을 확장시켜나가고 있는 ICT 산업분야의 최근 추세를 보여주고 있다. 또한 인공지능 및 데이터 애널리틱스 등 ICT 기술기반 신생기업이 인수된 경우 산업 집중도의 변동은 더 큰 폭으로 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 분석결과는 디지털 경제시대에 ICT 분야의 산업 집중도가 높아지는 요인의 하나로서 신생기업이 단기간 내에 인수합병되는 추세를 실증적으로 규명하였다는 점에서 의의가 있다.