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

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

Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the … 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 …

This paper examines patterns of knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan using patent citations as an … knowledge diffusion over time, we have found that knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan exhibits quite …

is apparently insensitive to economic conditions in Korea, unlike in Japan (Freemand and Weitzinan). When "overtime …This paper examined the bonus and wage behavior in Korea. We found that both bonuses and wages in Korea respond to … economic conditions much more than their counterparts in Japan. This finding may reflect the fact that the Korean labor market …