This paper investigates how effective safety education reduces workforce risks by using an establishment-level dataset in South Korea. We focus on identification and estimation of causal effects. Since provision of safety education depends on establishment’s decision, the main variable of...

We examine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the mergers of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in Korea, where SPACs—since their introduction in 2010—have played a significant role in private company public listings. After the COVID-19 outbreak, SPACs were less likely to merge,...

As the severity of climate change is increasingly recognized throughout the world, the international community has announced plans to achieve carbon neutrality and has introduced policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The Korean government is also devising concrete measures to achieve carbon...