This dissertation comprises three essays on theoretical analysis of middlemen in intermediated markets. Chapter 1 gives a brief survey on the market intermediation literature and also briefly describes the subsequent chapters.In Chapter 2 I study the role of horizontally differentiated middlemen...

The Park Geun-hye administration put forward the “creative economy” as a new growth strategy for the sustainable growth of Korea. To achieve this goal, SMEs and start-ups are regarded as key players in fostering the creative economy ecosystem, and new policy directions and alternative policy...

The retail sector in Korea has experienced dramatic changes since the introduction of large scale discount stores and retail market reforms in 1996. The introduction of the new retail format has altered consumers’ shopping patterns and increased their benefits from one-stop shopping. At the...