Happiness is often ignored in development economics even though it is generally considered the ultimate goal in life. Using the Indonesia Family Life Survey, this paper elucidates factors related to happiness in Indonesia in an ordered probit analysis. Some factors yield results consistent with...

This paper reviews changes in role of European Parliament (EP) in EU's trade policy since the Lisbon Treaty. The Treaty brought about important changes in EU governance, and in particular, strengthening of the role of the EP. EP's competences in trade policy were also strengthened. All trade...

In general, AD policy is known to protect domestic producers from dumped products. In terms of “protection,” government implements AD policy by expecting domestic firms to gain competitiveness through increased productivity. Using Korean firm data, this paper analyzed the effects of AD...

A regional cooperation project centered on a long river way passing through several nations, in addition to ensuring agreement between the nations involved, requires cooperation from the international community as a whole. This is because of potential conflict that may inevitably arise during...

Since the global financial crisis, inflows and outflows of foreign capital increased greatly and this resulted in a higher volatility in exchange rates. In addition, many countries introduced quantitative easing in order to overcome the eurozone financial crisis and the global recession. The...

인도의 대기업인 타타, 릴라이언스 그룹은 물론, 우리나라 포스코도 부지확보에 어려움을 겪고 있는 상황에서 일본 및 싱가포르의 공단 개발 사례는 자국 기업들의 인도 진출을 가장 직접적으로 지원하는 정책으로 높이...