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We examine the Nicaraguan Civil conflict in the seventies that ended up with the overthrown of the Somoza dictatorship and the start of the Sandinista Revolution. Nicaragua between 1977 and 1979 experienced high rates of war confrontation. After the announcement of the Sandinista National...
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This paper examines how the distribution of target ownership is related with takeover premium in owner-manager dominant acquisitions, in which a firm is managed by managers and directors nominated and directed closely by controlling shareholders. We find that there exists the agency problem...
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With the removal of statute-based anti-takeover provisions during the aftermath of Asian crisis, a significant number of Korean firms started to introduce charter-based measures. In this paper, we make use of this unique situation where firm-level anti-takeover provisions (ATP) vary over time...
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Aging is a global phenomenon for many countries and Korea is not an exception. After becoming an aging society in 2000 …, Korea turned an aged country in 2017 by having 14.3% of its population with older than 65 years old. It is expected to … become a super-aged society by 2025 (Statistics Korea 2018). No other country in the world has aged this fast. Unlike other …
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of new plants in South Korea. We first confirm that the minimum wage introduction induced new plants to have higher …
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Even after almost fifty years since the publication of “Korea: The Politics of the Vortex,” the image of the vortex … part because of it, in fact, Korea has transformed itself from an aid recipient into the ranks of a donor country by the … late 1990s. With its downward trend in long-term potential growth rate since then, however, Korea suffers from growing …
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examines the structure in which inclusiveness and sustainability affect each other in Korea's major social insurance schemes …
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in South Korea, and it proposes directions for reform in the governance context of South Korea …
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in South Korea. Drawing on semi-structured interview, video, newspapers and internal document data, we find that while …
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residential mortgage lending in Korea. In particular, a discrete tenure choice model is established, based on which effects of …) ratio are estimated. Using the household-level micro data from Korea, we report that: the lending restrictions exhibit …
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