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East Asian Financial and Economic Development
Morck, Randall - 2017
Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the …
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From Hermit Kingdom to Miracle on the Han : Policy Decisions that Transformed South Korea into an Export Powerhouse
Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In 1960, South Korea's exports were about 1 percent of GDP, and the country's ability to import depended almost entirely on US aid. After changing its foreign exchange and trade policies in the mid-1960s, Korea saw a surge in exports to more than 10 percent of GDP by the end of the decade. What...
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The changing roles of debt and equity in financing US capital formation
Friedman, Benjamin M. (ed.) - 1982
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Trade and Growth : Import-Led or Export-Led? Evidence From Japan and Korea
Lawrence, Robert Z. - 1999
competitive firms. The results in our paper suggest that when it comes to TFP growth, this view of Japan is seriously erroneous …. We find that lower tariffs and higher import volumes would have been particularly beneficial for Japan during the period … productivity growth. Our findings on Japan suggest that the salutary impact of imports stems more from their contribution to …
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A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …
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A Cross-Country Comparison of Old Age Financial Readiness in Asian Countries vs. the United States : The Case of Japan and the Republic of Korea
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We pursue a cross-country comparison of relative financial readiness of older households in Japan and the Republic of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814424
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia : A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2002
This paper uses new firm level data from five East Asian countries to explore the patterns of manufacturing productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent of openness and the competitiveness of markets affects the relative productivity of firms across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469820
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Patent Citations and International Knowledge Flow : The Cases of Korea and Taiwan
Hu, Albert G.Z. - 2001
This paper examines patterns of knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan using patent citations as an … knowledge diffusion over time, we have found that knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan exhibits quite …
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