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Tale of two Koreas
Ratten, Vanessa; Waechter, Estelle - 2007
The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...
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Bargaining Chains (Long Version)
Lovejoy, William S. - 2010
We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...
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Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems.
Jian, Lian - 2010
My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...
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Market liberalization and trading in Korea
Blenman, Lloyd P.; Chen, Dar-Hsin; Chen, Chun-Da - 2010
This paper reports on the trading behavior of major participants, investment trust companies, banks, and foreigners in South Korea in the period after the currency markets were liberalized and the limits on foreign investments were lifted. It was found that trading in the spot currency market...
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Does Self Management in Fisheries Enhance Profitability? Examination of Korea’s Coastal Fisheries
Uchida, Hirotsugu; Uchida, Emi; Lee, Jung-Sam; Ryu, … - 2010
Self management of natural resources has started to gain increasing attention as an alternative tool to command …-and-control and market-based tools, but the fundamental question remains: is self management economically beneficial such that it … empirical strategy to provide some of the first quantitative evidence that self management is benefiting the fishermen. We find …
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An International Comparison of the Economics of Building Integrated PV in different Resource, Pricing and Policy Environments: The Cases of the U.S., Japan and South Korea
Byrne, John; Agbemabiese, Lawrence; Boo, Kyung-Jin; … - 2000
In recent years, the Center for Energy and EnvironmentalPolicy (CEEP), working with affiliated academic andresearch institutions in the U.S. and East Asia, hasinvestigated the technical and economic feasibility of usingdispatchable photovoltaic (DPV) systems in distributedpeak-shaving (PS)...
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Gender Equality in Reconciling Work and Childcare in South Korea
Lee, Kook Hee - 2009
This paper presents an ideal legislative model for South Korea to realize gender equality in reconciling work and childcare. The comparative study on the U.S. and German system is the basis for the legislative model. This paper selects the U.S. and German systems as a comparison group because...
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Supplier Base Management: Experiences from the UK and Germany
Lemke, Fred; Goffin, Keith; Szwejczewski, Marek; … - 2000
random sample of German plants investigatedsupplier management processes. The findings show that German manufacturers havenot …
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StarLink: Impacts on the U.S. Corn Market and World Trade.
Lin, William; Price, Gregory K.; Allen, Edward W. - 2003
StarLink disrupted the U.S. corn market during the 2000/01 marketing year as a result of inadvertent commingling. The potential, upper-bound volume of marketed StarLink-commingled corn from the 2000 crop located near wet and dry millers prior to October 1, 2000, is estimated at 124 million...
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Genetic diversity among soybean accessions from three countries measured by RAPDs.
Li, Z.; Nelson, R.L. - 2001
Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] was domesticated in China but has a long history of cultivation on the Korean peninsula and in Japan. All three areas are considered important sources of soybean germplasm. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the genetic variation in soybean within and...
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