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 …

that despite many outward similarities, two of the most successful Southeast Asian economies, Taiwan and South Korea … markets. In this paper we use micro panel data for producers in seven two-digit manufacturing industries in South Korea and … findings indicate that, relative to their counterparts in Korea, Taiwanese industries are characterized by less concentrated …

Korea. Empirical results are provided, using 4-period panel data for the years 1963-83, for 38 Korean industries in which …

the methods in assessing the impact of macroprudential policies introduced by Korea in 2010. Relative to a comparison … group of countries, we find that the sensitivity of capital flows into Korea to global conditions decreased in the period …