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Hyun Hoi Bae

Yonsei University · 社会科学

研究室紹介

Professor Hyun Hoi Bae's research lab specializes in environmental policy, regulatory disclosure, and public administration, with a focus on how information transparency influences environmental risk reduction and public behavior. The lab investigates the effectiveness of mandatory and voluntary environmental disclosure programs—such as the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Title X lead paint regulations—in shaping corporate accountability and public health outcomes. It also explores institutional dynamics in policy diffusion, particularly the roles of public versus private actors and local governance structures in implementing environmental policies. The lab employs rigorous econometric and institutional analysis to assess how data interpretation, institutional design, and stakeholder engagement affect policy effectiveness.

environmental disclosurepolicy diffusionrisk communicationpublic administrationregulatory effectiveness

Research Overview

Papers
43
Total Citations
294
Papers (5y)
13
Primary Field
社会科学

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
13total
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Citations per year (5y)
42total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|62 citations·2011
Urban stream restoration in Korea: Design considerations and residents’ willingness to pay
Hyunhoe Bae
SJR Q1Urban forestry & urban greening
Economics and EconometricsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
2
Article|60 citations·2009
Information disclosure policy: Do state data processing efforts help more than the information disclosure itself?
Hyunhoe Bae, Peter J. Wilcoxen, David Popp
SJR Q1Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Abstract The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals by increasing public pressure on polluters. However, raw TRI data fails to transmit accurate information fitted to the public's interest. TRI is a massive and complex data set that, in its raw form, provides information on the pounds of toxics released, rather than the risks these releases pose to human health, which is the true quantity of interest. Consequently, raw TR

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
3
Article|34 citations·2022
Do firms respond differently to the carbon pricing by industrial sector? How and why? A comparison between manufacturing and electricity generation sectors using firm-level panel data in Korea
Pyung Kim, Hyunhoe Bae
SJR Q1Energy Policy
Economics and EconometricsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
4
Article|23 citations·2012
Voluntary Disclosure of Environmental Performance
Hyunhoe Bae
SJR Q1The American Review of Public Administration

Public and private differences have been a central topic in public administration research. This study explores electric utilities’ voluntary disclosure of environmental performance and examines if private (investor-owned) and public (government-owned) utilities have different drivers for voluntary disclosure. In particular, this study analyzes the panel data on electric utilities’ participation in the Department of Energy’s Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Registry program (VGGR) from 1995 to 2005 and

Strategy and ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting
5
Article|21 citations·2018
Information and coercive regulation: The impact of fuel mix information disclosure on states’ adoption of renewable energy policy
Hyunhoe Bae, Sanguk Yu
SJR Q1Energy Policy
Economics and EconometricsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
6
Article|19 citations·2012
Reducing Environmental Risks by Information Disclosure: Evidence in Residential Lead Paint Disclosure Rule
Hyunhoe Bae
SJR Q1Journal of Policy Analysis and ManagementOA

Abstract Recently, there has been a surge in environmental regulations that require information disclosure. However, existing empirical evidence is limited to certain applications and has yet to generalize the effectiveness of this approach as a policy strategy to reduce environmental risks. This study evaluates the disclosure rule of the residential lead paint hazard ( T itle X ) introduced in 1996. This regulation is one of the most prominent environmental disclosure laws, but its effectivenes

Economics and EconometricsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
7
Article|16 citations·2017
Moving Beyond the Influence of Neighbors on Policy Diffusion: Local Influences on Decisions to Conduct Property Tax Reassessment in New York
Tae Ho Eom, Hyunhoe Bae, Soojin Kim
SJR Q1The American Review of Public Administration

Over the past few decades, research on policy adoption and diffusion has grown rapidly. Despite the relatively large number of publications, however, little attention has been paid to the important question of why a policy is differently implemented or diffused across governments. To answer this question and improve our understanding of local policy choice beyond widely cited neighboring influences, we closely examine the roles of three main policy actors—internal actors, external actors, and go

Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
8
Article|11 citations·2013
Impact of school quality on house prices and estimation of parental demand for good schools in Korea
배현회, 정일환

Korean parents have high demands for their children’s education. Korean households’ expenditure pattern for private tutoring has been revealed through various surveys, but their demand for public school education has been rarely analyzed. Using the Housing Market Survey on the Seoul metropolitan area in 2001, this study estimates the household-level demand function for public school quality by applying a rigorous economic analysis model (Rosen’s two-step estimation scheme). In the first step, th

9
Article|8 citations·2015
Do Plants Decrease Pollution Reduction Efforts During a Recession? Evidence from Upstate New York Chemical Plants During the US Great Recession
Hyunhoe Bae
SJR Q1Environmental and Resource Economics
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
10
report|8 citations·2008
Information Disclosure Policy: Do States' Data Processing Efforts Help More than the Information Disclosure Itself?
Hyunhoe Bae, Peter J. Wilcoxen, David Popp
National Bureau of Economic ResearchOA

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals by increasing public pressure on polluters. However, it is a massive and complex dataset, requiring significant expertise to interpret in its raw form. State governments have attempted to mitigate the TRI's information processing burden on the public via two types of policies: (1) selection and dissemination of raw TRI data for plants within the state, and (2) data processing act

Strategy and ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting
11
Article|6 citations·2015
The impact of the residential lead paint disclosure rule on house prices: findings in the American Housing Survey
Hyunhoe Bae
SJR Q1Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Economics and EconometricsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
12
Article|6 citations·2017
생활임금 조례의 결정과 강도에 관한 연구
정용찬, 배현회

생활임금 제도는 개인의 생존에 대한 보장만을 하는 최저임금과 달리 한 가구의 생계가 가능한 정도의 임금을노동자에게 보장하는 제도로 지역의 공공부문에서 선도적으로 도입되었다. 우리나라의 경우 성북구와 노원구가 참여연대의 제안을 받아 2012년 행정명령을 통해 생활임금 제도를 최초로 도입하였고 이후 조례로 확산되었다. 본 연구는 이 제도의 확산 현상에 주목하여 생활임금 조례의 결정요인에 대한 분석을 진행하였다. 그결과 노동조합조직률이 높은 지역, 그리고 단체장의 소속정당과 지방의회의 정치성향이 진보적인 지방자치단체가 이 조례를 도입하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 저임금으로 인한 소득양극화라는 위기에 대응해 지방자치단체가 이 조례를 도입하더라도 실제 시행되는 생활임금의 크기는 노동자들의 생활개선에 기여할 정도로충분히 높지 않다는 비판이 있다. 때문에 본 연구는 이 조례의 결정요인에 대한 연구에서 더 나아가 생활임금의 강도(최저임금 대비 생활임금 백분율)에 대한 분석을 진행하였다. 분석

13
Article|3 citations·2015
환경정보공개정책에 대한 기업의 전략적 행동 - 유해화학물질 배출량 정보공개를 중심으로 -
유상욱, 배현회

사업장들의 유해화학물질 배출량 정보를 의무적으로 공개하는 유해화학물질 배출량 조사제도(PRTR)의 정책목표는, 환경배출량 정보가 공개된 사업장들에 대한 공공의 압력을 유발함으로써 사업장들의 배출량 저감을 유도하고, 궁극적으로 그에 따른 인체유해성 감소를 달성하려는 것이다. 이러한 정책목표를 달성하기 위해서는 공개되는 정보가 공공의 압력을 유발하기에 적합한 형태와 유용성을 갖출 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 그러나 현재 공개되고 있는 배출량 정보는 각 사업장들의 단순 배출량 총량(kg)만을 공개하고 있는 상황으로, 최종 인체유해성 정도와 추이가 궁극적인 관심사임에도 불구하고 이에 대한 정보 제공이 이루어지지 않고 있다. 공개된 정보의 정책목표와의 불일치성 문제는 기업들의 전략적 행동으로 이어질 수 있다. 즉, 유해화학물질을 배출하는 기업들은 공공에 공개되는 정보의 형태인 총 배출량 수준을 저감하려 노력하지만, 실제 정책목표인 인체유해성 수준 저감에는 우선순위를 두지 않는 전략적 디커플링(d

14
Article|3 citations·2022
Do political power shifts reduce corruption in Korean local governments?
Moonsoo Lee, Hyunhoe Bae
SJR Q2Japanese Journal of Political ScienceOA

Abstract Previous studies have discussed the effects of electoral competition on corruption, but only a few explored the effects of political power shifts – the results of electoral competition. To fill the gap, this study tests hypotheses that three types of political power shifts (the shifts of individual local government heads, local government ruling party, and local council majority) reduce the corruption (overall, external, and internal), with a panel data set of 226 Korean local governmen

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
15
Article|3 citations·2015
Trends in Toxic Chemical Releases in Korea: Comparison between Total Releases and Human Health Risk Levels in the Period 2004 to 2012
S. Q. Y. Yu, Hyunhoe Bae
Journal of Environmental Policy and Administration

각 사업체들로 하여금 유해화학물질 배출량 및 이동량 정보를 의무적으로 공개하게 하는 유해화학물질 배출?이동량 조사제도는 지역사회, 환경단체, 규제당국 등으로부터 공공의 압력을 유발하여, 궁극적으로 유해화학물질로부터의 인체유해성 수준을 저감하는 것이 정책목표이다. 본 연구에서는 2004년부터 2012년까지의 지역별 유해화학물질 배출량 및 인체유해성의 추이를 살펴보았다. 먼저, 국내 전체의 추이를 살펴본 결과, 총배출량 수준은 미미하게 감소하였지만, 인체유해성 수준은 크게 증가한 것으로 나타났다. 이어서 살펴본 지역별 추이는 배출량 수준과 인체유해성 수준이 지역에 따라 크게 다른 것으로 나타났다. 특히, 일부지역의 경우 배출량 수준은 증가하였지만 인체유해성 수준은 감소한 반면, 대조적으로 배출량 수준은 감소하였지만 인체유해성 수준은 증가한 지역도 나타났다. 이러한 결과는, 단순 배출량 정보만 공개하고 있는 현 제도 하에서, 궁극적 정책목표인 인체유해성 수준의 저감을 위해서는 보다 정확한

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsAgricultural and Biological Sciences

Research Areas

Economics and EconometricsSociology and Political ScienceStrategy and ManagementAerospace EngineeringEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsMarketing

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