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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan, and South Korea
Bloom, David E. - 2017
China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951354
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Trade and Growth : Import-Led or Export-Led? Evidence from Japan and Korea
Lawrence, Robert Z.; Weinstein, David E. - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229057
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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Cette, Gilbert - 2010
This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable … catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149831
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The Impact of Pre-Marital Sex Ratios on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986694
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Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?
Kaplan, Ethan; Rodrik, Dani - 2021
Malaysia recovered from the Asian financial crisis swiftly after the imposition of capital controls in September 1998. The fact that Korea and Thailand recovered in parallel has been interpreted as suggesting that capital controls did not play a significant role in facilitating Malaysia's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235866
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Buyer Investment, Product Variety, and Intrafirm Trade
Chen, Yongmin; Feenstra, Robert C. - 2021
This paper studies a simple model of buyer investment and its effect on the variety and vertical structure of international trade. A distinction is made between two types of buyer investment: "flexible" and "specific." Their interactions with the entry and pricing incentives of suppliers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247671
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Global Business and Financial Cycles : A Tale of Two Capital Account Regimes
Acalin, Julien; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2022
Using a new equity price-based measure of the global financial cycle, this paper evaluates the relative importance of global financial shocks for quarterly equity returns and output growths in a large sample of advanced and emerging economies, as well as in South Korea and China--two countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014239128
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Taxes, Outward Orientation, and Growth Performance in Korea
Trela, Irene - 2010
This paper both discusses and evaluates the role of tax policy in the Korean growth process from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. It begins by reviewing the evolution of Korean policy over this developmental sequence, emphasizing three distinct regime switches, and the tax policies which were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150724
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Getting Interventions Right : How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich
Rodrik, Dani - 2021
Most explanations of Korea's and Taiwan's economic growth since the early 1960s place heavy emphasis on export orientation. However, it is difficult to see how export orientation could have played a significant causal role in these countries' growth. The measured increase in the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218320
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The Tyranny of Numbers : Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience
Young, Alwyn - 2021
This paper documents the fundamental role played by factor accumulation in explaining the extraordinary postwar growth of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong Kong) investment rates have risen rapidly in all four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233017