Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Korean conglomerates (chaebol) have rapidly ascended to international prominence. The success of Korean chaebol firms seems to be associated with internal market transactions. Just as Japanese keiretsu firms succeeded by utilizing a...

Total factor productivities for 28 Korean manufacturing sectors were estimated jointly with markups, scale economies, and the capacity utilization rate using the short-run generalized Leontief cost function. Concavity conditions necessary for the cost function to be well-behaved and consistent...

We find nonlinear mean reverting tendencies in Southeast Asian currencies by applying the newly developed nonlinear unit-root test by Park and Shintani (2005). First, with the US dollar as the numeraire currency, we find that 63% of the real exchange rates of Southeast Asian currencies turn out...