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Negotiating last-minute concerns in closing Korean medical encounters: The use of gaze, body and talk

Park, Yujong - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 176-191

concerns. Data are drawn from 60 videotaped primary-care encounters collected from Korea, between 2007 and 2008. The rare …

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The Anglo-Saxon market for corporate control, the financial system and international competitiveness: notes for the Notre Dame conference on "strengthening U.S. competitiveness"

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Abstract The last decade has witnessed a growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic on the effectiveness of the stock market based financial systems of the U.S. and the U.K. for promoting international competitiveness and industrial strength. The two countries share a broadly common framework...

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The effect of board structure on firm value: a multiple identification strategies approach using Korean data

Black, Bernard; Kim, Woochan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Outside directors and audit committees are widely considered to be central elements of good corporate governance. We use a 1999 Korean law as an exogenous shock to assess how board structure affects firm market value. The law mandates 50% outside directors and an audit committee for large public...

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Managerial entrenchment of anti-takeover devices: quasi-experimental evidence from Korea

Hwang, Sunwoo; Kim, Woochan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

With the removal of statute-based anti-takeover provisions during the aftermath of Asian crisis, a significant number of Korean firms started to introduce charter-based measures. In this paper, we make use of this unique situation where firm-level anti-takeover provisions (ATP) vary over time...

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Reforming Korea's Migration Policy

Kim, Soojin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Asia, the Republic of Korea experienced firsthand the benefits of having migrant workers. It would certainly not be an … of the migrant worker in the Republic of Korea, discuss consequences and implications for Korea's continued migration … policy, and make recommendations for reforming Korea's migration policy. …

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Methods for Multicountry Studies of Coporate Governance: Evidence from the BRIKT Countries

Black, Bernard; Carvalho, Antonio Gledson De; Khanna, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

methods to respond to those issues, and apply those methods to a study of five major emerging markets -- Brazil, India, Korea …

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Death Spiral Issues in Emerging Market: A Control Related Perspective

Kim, Woochan; Kim, Woojin; Kim, Hyung-Seok - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Korea Stock Exchange during 1998-2006, we find a number of pieces of empirical evidence that are less consistent with the …

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Savings, investment and the corporation in the East Asian miracle

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

years, with very substantial diversification and economic development. Korea, for example, managed to transform itself from …

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Catching up with the West: a perspective on Asian economic development

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996

Abstract Following closely my remit, this paper reviews and assesses Asian economic development in the recent post-1980 period, as well as over the somewhat longer time-span since WWII. Its chief purpose is to draw analytical and policy implications from this experience. This is a challenging...

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Network neutrality: Insights gained by juxtaposing the US and Korea

Shin, Dong-Hee; Lee, Jaegil; Kim, Nam Cheol; Jung, Jaeyoel - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014

In this study, we compare and contrast the U.S. and Korea in the context of network neutrality, focusing on debates …, legislative initiatives, and implementation. In Korea, there is an existing regulatory framework with suggestive guidelines that …

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