• 대한교통학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.157-172
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• 1996

The long-existed licence system which has acted as one of the strong barriers to entry in the ocean shipping market in Korea is supposed to repeal in the near future. As a result, competition among the different sizes of firms which are operating under regional shield by means of the licence will be intensified. The main objective of this paper is to estimate the degree of economies of scale and economies of density for various firm sizes. For the successful estimation of economies scale and economies of density, translog cost models are developed and estimated through SURE technique which was suggested by Zeller (1963). The major findings are as follows ; All shipping firms in the sample exhibit economies of scale and density. Even small size shipping firms under licence system, they show substantial economies of scale contrary to the wide-known idea that small-size firms are subject to diseconomies of scale. For the ranked firm sizes according to owned deadweight tons, the degree of economies of scale decreases as the firm sizes are larger and larger. The degree of economies of density moderately declines from the smallest to the firm size of 30-60 thousand deadweight tons and sharply rise thereafter. And the large shipping firms with over half-million deadweight tons exhibit high economies density compared to other sizes of firm. If follows that the larger firms have great advantage in competition if the licence system is abolished.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.21-42
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• 2008

This study investigates economies of scale, cost complementarity and economies of scope for healthcare organizations using econometric approaches. The economies of scale appear to exist in each service provided by a hospital such as inpatient treatment services, outpatient treatment services, and other patient treatment services, respectively. When we test all services in aggregate level, it also indicates that the healthcare industry on average exhibits the economies of scale of 6 percent, which implies that scaling up hospital sizes will bring substantial cost savings to them Evidence shows that cost complementarity exists between outpatient services and other services for patients and, i.e., these other services for patients experience the reduction in marginal costs as the outputs of the outpatient services increase. For the economies of scope, they are present in most service areas; aggregate level services, outpatient services, and other services for patients, respectively. Inpatient treatment services, however, do not show any evidence of the economies of scope. Results show that the economies of scope are achieved by the general hospital type that provides all service areas such as inpatient treatments, outpatient treatments, and other services for patients. The existence of the economies of scope provides the rationale for extending the existing line of business in a hospital into more diverse areas of services where its benefit comes in the form of cost savings. In sum, it overall provides evidence that the M&As in this industry are encouraged to achieve cost reductions from the economies of scale and scope by changing the size and the output mix.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.61-71
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• 2017

This study estimates the cost function through offshore fishery cost data and analyzed the economies of scale of Korea's offshore fishery. For the estimation of the cost function, translog cost function was used, and the analysis implemented the panel analysis of the panel data. Also, annual economies of scale of the offshore fishery and economies of scale of 14 offshore fisheries in 2015 were analyzed using translog cost function coefficient estimation. The analysis result of economies of scale of Korea's offshore fishery showed that with the exception of 2003, economies of scale exist in all periods of time. However, as it almost reaches the minimum efficient scale, it was revealed that further scale expansion will bring inefficiency. Thus, according to the analysis result, Korea's offshore fishery requires a scale reduction policy rather than scale expansion policy, and this seems to coincide with the current government's fishery reconstruction policy and its practice such as the fishing vessel buyback program. The analysis result of economies of scale of each offshore fishery in 2015 showed that economies of scale of each offshore fishery exists with the exception of five trawl fisheries such as large pair-trawl and large otter trawl and large purse seines. This strongly suggests that the five fisheries and Large Purse Seines with non performing economies of scale need urgent scale reduction and should be the first target for the government's fishery reconstruction policy.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.973-997
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• 2000

The carbon tax is one of several measures to reduce the green-house gases emitted from burning the fossil fuels, which has been much discussed internationally. The analyses of the effects of a carbon tax on individual countries have been carried out by applying the computable general equilibrium(CGE) models, especially models with the assumption of non-existence of scale economies. However, the introduction of scale economies to CGE models changes the simulation results drastically. In this paper, two CGE models are used to compute and compare the economic and $CO_2$ reduction effects of a carbon tax, one of with is the model with scale economies and the other is without scale economies. One of main results is that the analysis using the CGE model without scale economies may underestimate the effects of a carbon tax on GDP and reducing the emission of $CO_2$.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.11-20
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• 2013

This Study includes the information of integrated discussion and economies of scale on local governments' sewerage treatment plant through translog function based on the reality reports of sewerage treatment plant operation published by Ministry of Environment and sewerage statistics data from 2005 to 2010. Based on analysis results from the data of 35 local governments in Jeollanamdo and Jeollabukdo, which are selected as pilot project areas of sewerage facility integration by Ministry of Environment and have low percent of sewered population, it shows the existence of economies of scale. The economies of scale on sewerage treatment show the loss of approximately 22,211 thousand ton/day in sewage treatment, it is 1.7 times compared to the average treatment amount of 35 local governments as of 2010. It means the economies of scale can be achieved by lowering operation cost along with large scale integration in installation, operation and maintenance due to the features of sewerage industry as one of network industry.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.145-166
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• 2009

본 연구는 중국의 192개 도시(地級 이상)를 대상으로 도시화경제를 추계한 후 도시화경제와 도시규모의 관계를 분석한다. 실증분석에는 1990년부터 2005년까지의 자료와 Carlino의 모형을 이용한다. 도시화경제의 추계에는 OLS 방법과 AR(1) 방법을 이용한다. 추계 결과에 의하면, 145개 도시의 h 값이 1보다 크게 나타났으며, 도시화경제가 존재하는 것으로 해석할 수 있다. 그리고 47개 도시의 h 값은 1보다 작게 나타났으며, 이들 도시는 도시화경제가 존재하지 않는 것으로 해석할 수 있다. 북경시(北京市), 천진시(天津市), 상해시(上海市), 중경시(重庆市) 4대 직할시의 도시화경제는 현저하게 나타나고 있으며, 15개 副省級市의 도시화경제도 비교적 높은 수준으로 나타나고 있다. 4대 지역별로 나누어 보면, 동부지역의 도시화경제 수준이 상대적으로 높게 나타나고 있으며, 그 다음은 중부지역과 서부지역 순서이고, 동북지역의 도시화경제는 상대적으로 낮은 수준을 나타내고 있다. 이러한 결과는 동북지역 전체의 장기적 경제침체와도 연관이 있다고 본다. 마지막으로 도시화경제와 도시규모와의 관계를 분석하기 위해, 본 연구는 도시인구규모와 도시화경제에 대한 역U자 검증을 하였다. 전체 도시의 검증 결과에 의하면, 역U자의 관계가 존재하는 것을 받아들이기는 힘들게 나타났다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.176-186
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• 2013

본 연구는 최근 빈번하게 진행되고 있는 국내 의료서비스기관들의 대형화 및 집단화 움직임에 대하여 동 산업이 규모 또는 범위의 경제(Economies of Scale and Scope)를 실현할 수 있는지를 전위로그비용함수 추정을 통하여 분석하였다. 추정결과 계수에 따라 다소 차이는 있지만 여타 서비스의 생산수준의 변화에 의해 영향을 받는 특정 서비스 생산의 한계비용을 나타내는 계수들 모두 통계적으로 유의함을 보였다. 추정된 단일생산물 규모의 경제(Single-Product Scale Economy: SSE)계수들 뿐만 아니라 전반적인 약 규모의 경제(Ray Scale Economies: RSE)값 모두 1보다 작은 수치를 나타남으로서 한국 의료서비스기관들의 서비스생산에 규모 경제가 존재함을 보여주었다. 범위의 경제 존재여부의 분석을 위한 상호 서비스생산에 있어서 비용의 상보성 추정에서도 모두 90% 이상의 통계적 유의수준을 보였다. 특히 외래환자와 입원환자 진료서비스 간, 입원환자 진료서비스와 제 증명서발급 및 기타 서비스 활동 간에 있어서는 범위의 경제뿐만 아니라 비용의 상보성이 존재함을 보여주었다.

• 수산경영론집
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.17-31
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to identify economic situation on scale of tuna distant longline fishery by analyzing its economies of scale using the cost function. To analyze its economics of scale, the deep-sea fishing statistics were used from 2012 to 2016. In detail, the number of panels for estimating the cost function was 68 tuna distant longline vessels from 2012 to 2016, and the total number of observations over the five years were 340. As a final model, the two-way fixed effect model based on the translog cost function was adopted through the F test, the Breusch-Pagan test and the Hausman test. As a result of the analysis, it was found that tuna distant longline fishery between 2012 and 2014 was diseconomies of scale, the fishery between 2015 and 2016 was economies of scale. However, the economic indicators of the scale from 2012 to 2016 were almost close to zero, indicating that the constant returns to scale, the optimal scale, were reached. Therefore, in the situation where the amount of fishery resources in the world continues to decrease, it is necessary to prepare a method to obtain economic benefits through scale maintenance and reduction rather than indiscriminate scale expansion.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.291-319
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• 2002

This Paper investigates imperfect competition and economy of scale on Korean energy markets based on computable general equilibrium model. Some industries like energy sector have exhibited that their economies have strong economies of scale and imperfect competition. Thus these industrial organization facts should be incorporated into CGE model. In our model, non-competitive markets are adopted and compare these results with convention perfect competition model.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.233-260
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• 2002

This paper tries to analyze the efficiency structure and regulatory effects in electric power industry by using total factor productivity and indices based on cost function method. This paper performed an empirical analysis on the efficiency improvement and optimal scale taking the cost aspect in electricity industry into account. By expanding the cost structure framework, this paper proposes the analytical method regarding the needs of technology regulation and presents the empirical results which can be verified. Hence, this work can play a key role in decision-making of the national power development and regulatory policy. The empirical result indicates that the electricity industry in Korea has been in the state of economies of scale until 1980s, However, due to sustained growth of power generation, economies of scale declined and subsided after 1980s and then diseconomies of scale is shown recent years. The analysis on the effect of technology regulation shows the national large-scale base-load power plant development-oriented policy until so far contributed substantial cost effect to the electricity industry. The empirical result indicates that the reserve requirement as one of means of technology regulation policy did not contribute to the economies of scale but positive effect on the total factor productivity in Korea.