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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 …
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? Our analysis of Korea's 1997-99 crisis, suggests an answer: No. Despite a general "no bailout" policy during the crisis …
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The large literature on costly signaling and the somewhat scant literature on preference signaling had varying success in showing the effectiveness of signals. We use a field experiment to show that even when everyone can send a signal, signals are free and the only costs are opportunity costs,...
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Korea. Empirical results are provided, using 4-period panel data for the years 1963-83, for 38 Korean industries in which …
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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 …
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Sex ratios at birth in South Korea reached 116.5 boys per 100 girls in 1990, but have since declined. In 2007, sex …
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prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …
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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...
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We investigate the nature of oil price shocks to the Korean economy in recent years and find that the recent hike in oil price is induced by the increase in oil demand in contrast to the previous years when oil price run-up is mostly from supply disruptions. We also study how monetary responses...
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We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...
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