Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

equilibria is consistent with the observation that some similar economies, such as Taiwan and South Korea, differ substantially …

that despite many outward similarities, two of the most successful Southeast Asian economies, Taiwan and South Korea … Taiwan and identify a number of systematic differences in industry structure between the two countries. Our empirical … producers. These patterns are consistent with strong competitive pressures in Taiwan that lead to market selection based on …

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 …

and the New Taiwan dollar. For these currencies, interest rates and money supplies move to restore equilibrium. In ex post … simulation, the out-of-sample fit of the estimated models is relatively good for the won, Singapore and New Taiwan dollars, and …

data collected in the manufacturing censuses in South Korea and Taiwan to study the linkages between a producer's total … importance of selection and learning forces. In Taiwan, transitions of firms in and out of the export market reflect systematic …, the evidence of self-selection on the basis of productivity is much weaker. In addition, unlike Taiwan, we find no …

We evaluate the endogenous growth hypothesis using sectoral data for South Korea and Taiwan. Our empirical work relies …. We test whether changes in the variety of these inputs, for Taiwan relative to Korea, are correlated with the growth in … total factor productivity (TFP) in each sector, again measured in Taiwan relative to Korea. We find that changes in relative …