prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …

China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …

office has a greater percentage of mistakenly granted patents than those of Europe, the United States, Korea and China …

1930s. South Korea, among the world's poorest countries in the 1960s, joined the ranks of First World economies in little … over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow a similar trajectory. All three cases highlight the importance …

, as well as in South Korea and China--two countries on different sides of the trilemma triangle of international finance …. We document that global financial shocks in both China and South Korea explain a substantial share of equity return … than 10 percent in Korea and negligible in the case of China). We also find that the combination of a closer capital …

We study whether tariff preferences conferred on South Korean goods through the implementation of the Korea-U.S. Free … magnitude as the increase in the U.S. bilateral goods trade deficit with South Korea. Thus, while increased U.S. imports from … South Korea may have increased the U.S.-South Korea bilateral trade deficit, the fact that KORUS diverted U.S. import demand …

particular the Limarí Valley); (3) China (in particular, the North); (4) South Africa; and (5) the western United States. It …

We examine the price and variety of products at the barcode level in cities within China and the United States. In both … countries, there is a greater variety of products in larger cities. But in China, unlike the United States, the prices of … follows that the cost of living for grocery-store products in China is lower in larger cities. We further compare the cost …