This study was conducted to determine the efficiency of the distribution process of the abalone industry, that is, whether there is market dominance. In addition, it was intended to find out whether there is an asymmetric price transfer phenomenon between the distribution stage of the abalone industry. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the asymmetric price transition effect on the abalone price between producer and wholesale market was found to be positive. It means that the distribution structure is incomplete between the producer and the wholesale market and the abalone market is operating inefficiently. Second, as a result of estimating the market power between the producer and the wholesale market, the market power coefficient between the producer and the Hanam wholesale market, and the producer and the Incheon wholesale market were 0.0618 and 0.0735. Summarizing the analysis results, the abalone market has an asymmetric price transition between producer and wholesale markets, but the market dominance coefficient is relatively low. These results suggest that the asymmetry of price transition is mainly caused by market dominance, but can also be caused by other factors such as information asymmetry. In the future, in addition to the market dominance of the abalone market, it is judged that research on factors related to the asymmetry of price transition is necessary.

The introduction of the wholesalers system is being considered from various aspects in order to improve the problems of the listed auction system of wholesale corporations. The wholesalers system is a corporation that receives designation from the creator and purchases or consigns agricultural and fishery products to wholesale or broker sales, and has the advantage of reducing the distribution stage and distribution costs. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the wholesalers system introduced to improve the problems of the listed auction system of wholesale corporations through a case study of market wholesalers handling fishery products.

In this study, the differences of institutional development processes of fishery products wholesale markets were compared between Korea and Japan in order to suggest improvement direction of trading system in Korea. The wholesale markets have shrunk while wholesale and distribution has been becoming larger in size in both countries. A summary of differences in the wholesale market trading systems between Korea and Japan is as follows: first, middle wholesalers play pivotal roles in wholesale transaction in Korea, and wholesale corporations take such roles in Japan. Second, most wholesale corporations take charge of listing in Korea whereas such corporations are in charge of buying in Japan. Third, Korea has high proportion of auction for transactions, in contrast to Japan with high proportion of relative transactions. Forth, Korea maintains more sales within the wholesale markers and has more small and medium customers than Japan. Finally, Korea investigates inside causes to find solutions for the decreased competitive power of the wholesale market, whereas Japan copes with the problem by searching for outside customers. To seek solutions for the decreased competitiveness of Korean fishery products wholesale markets, middle wholesalers’ consignment should be limitedly allowed, and improvement direction of wholesale corporations should be investigated in the future study.

The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of outlook project for olive flounder, from the view point of price stabilization, market efficiency, and causality of the prices in different distribution channels. Analytical results show that the volatility of producer price of olive flounder has been significantly mitigated after the implementation of the outlook project. The market efficiency is estimated to be improved after implementing the outlook project although there is an inefficiency on price determination process in some producing regions. The causality test on the producer and wholesale price shows that producing stage leads the wholesale stage in forming the prices. It is found that Jeju leads the flounder price on the size of 500g and 2kg, while Wando leads the price of 1kg size. These estimation result as whole indicate that outlook project for olive flounder has accomplished the intended goals.

2009년부터 2013년까지 경기지역 농산물도매시장으로 유입된 채소류에 대해 농약 잔류량을 조사한 결과 허용기 준초과 빈도가 높은 5개 품목은 엽채류 중 쑥갓 48건5.8%), 근대 28건(5.1%), 시금치 28건(3.4%), 깻잎 25건3.4%), 참나물 24건(3.7%) 순으로 나타났다. 쑥갓과 근대는 6~9월에 높게 나타났고 시금치는 10~11월과 12~1월에높게 나타났다. 깻잎은 7~8월 사이와 1월에 높게 나타났으며 참나물은 8~9월에 허용기준초과율이 높게 나타났다. 월별 단가와 잔류농약 검출률 간의 상간관계를 분석하고자 Pearson``s correlation을 수행한 결과 참나물, 시금치, 깻잎의 경우 양의 관계(Pearson r = 0.337, 0.316, 0.297)를 나타내어 통계학적으로 유의적 차이를 나타내었다. 품목별월별 단가와 잔류농약 허용기준초과률율 간의 상호관계를 분석하고자 Pearson``s correlation을 수행한 결과 참나물, 쑥갓은 양의 관계(Pearson r = 0.259, 0.256)를 나타내어 통계 학적으로 유의적 차이를 보였다(p < 0.05). 5종의 엽채류중 참나물, 시금치, 깻잎, 쑥갓에서 월별 단가와 잔류농약 검출률 또는 허용기준초과율 중 한 가지 이상에서 상관관계를 나타내었다. 향후 월별 단가와 농약 잔류에 대한 전국단위의 연구조사가 필요할 것으로 판단되며 잔류농약 허용기준초과 빈도를 저감화하기 위해서는 각각 농산물에 대한 농약 안전사용기준 준수와 수확 전 농약 사용 금지기간을 준수하여야 할 것으로 판단되었다.

우리나라 화훼 유통은 재래시장 중심의 위탁판매방식으로 이루어져 왔다. 이러한 유통방식은 불공정 거래가될 수 있으며 수집 분산기능이 약하여 대량 수급조절이어렵다. 또한 품질 등급화의 미흡으로 인하여 고품질 화훼생산이 어려워진다. 이와 같은 문제점을 개선하고자 정부에서 공영도매시장을 건립하였으나 아직까지 그 기능과 역할이 완전하게 정착되어 있지 않다. 본 연구는 공영도매시장 기능의 활성화를 위하여 공영도매시장 중도매인, 유사도매시장 상인을 대상으로 국내 화훼시장에 대한 인식을 조사하였다. 조사에 따르면, 화훼시장의 활성화를 위해서는 규모화, 시설화, 현대화를 기반으로 한 공영도매시장이 필요한 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 절화류의 품질개선을 위해 명확한 등급기준이 필요한 것으로 조사되었다. 최근에는 다양한 절화를 구매하려는 소비자가 늘어남에 따라 저가의 수입 절화의 유입이 확대되고 있는실정이다. 이러한 저가 수입산 절화의 유입에 따른 국내화훼시장의 혼탁함을 방지하기 위해서는 모든 수입산 절화가 경매과정을 거쳐서 공정하게 거래되도록 해야 하며수입산 절화와 국산 절화의 차별화를 위하여 품질에 따른 가격설정이 선행되어야 한다. 이상과 같은 개선을 통하여 공영시장을 통한 절화의 유통이 확대되고, 투명한거래와 생산자의 권익보호, 품질 신뢰성 향상 및 수급안정을 기대할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

The Act on Distribution and Price Stabilization of Agricultural and Fisheries Product, which specifies rules and regulations on the trading system of fishery products wholesales markets, has been revised several times, mainly in order to improve the trading system. However, there is still a huge gap between the reality and law when it comes to the trading system of the fishery products wholesale market. This study aims to analyze the problems of the trading system of the fishery products wholesale market and to suggest ways to make improvement. The main problem facing the trading system of the fishery products wholesale market is sales on consignment by intermediate wholesalers, and this paper suggests two alternatives to solve the problem. First, intermediate wholesaler can be converted to market wholesalers, but it also entails other problems. The market wholesaler system has never been successfully adopted in the agricultural and fishery products wholesale market, and it is not clear which system is better between the wholesale market corporation and the market wholesaler system. Second, sales on consignment by intermediate wholesalers can be adopted with a positive view toward it. Negotiation transaction can be carried out for sales on consignment as a transaction method under the current Act on Distribution and Price Stabilization of Agricultural and Fisheries Products. However, since the act cannot provide a solution for listing, it is necessary to introduce Japan’s negotiated transaction in advance system as a negotiation transaction method.

The study aims to analyze economic of biogas plant in transition of recognition that waste resources has become renewable energy. The traditional investment valuation method using the NPV or IRR has a limitation in a sense that uncertainty of the future is not reflected. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to assess the value of the business by taking advantage of the real option. Biogas plant simulation is applied to the case of Garak Market using the binomial options among a variety of real options. With this analysis, it is assessed that operational expand option is the largest of the value of the binomial options.