Jongkwan Lee,Hee-Seung Yang
Jongkwan Lee
Using two complementary approaches, this study examines the deterioration of the Korean labor market during the first 10 months of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Applying the synthetic control method, we first find that the COVID-19 outbreak...
Kozo Kiyota
Kozo Kiyota
Global trade suffered a significant contraction in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its growth is expected to remain below the pre-pandemic trend. Did the relative importance of countries in the world trade network change as a...
Munseob Lee,Rachel Finerman
Munseob Lee
Fossil-fuel burning transportation methods significantly contribute to air pollution. During the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea experienced a 10-20% decline in commuting flows, even without government-mandated stay-at-home orders. This pape...
Financial crises, Asian stock indices, and current accounts: An Asian-U.S. comparative study [0.03%]
金融动荡、股市指数与国际收支余额：一项关于亚洲和美国的比较研究
David Y Chen,Tongzhe Li
David Y Chen
This paper investigates the effects of financial crises-based exchange rate, real interest rate, and personal consumption expenditure on stock market indices and balances of current account in four Asian countries/areas, and the U.S. from 1...
Karen Eggleston,Jian Wang,Keqin Rao
Karen Eggleston
Countries worldwide confront the challenge of defining and achieving appropriate roles for government and market forces in the health sector. China-as both a developing and a transitional economy-represents an important case. This paper use...
The economic strategy for the Hong Kong SAR: Evidence from productivity and cost analysis [0.03%]
香港特别行政区的经济策略：来自生产率和成本分析的证据
Kui-Wai Li
Kui-Wai Li
By using a growth accounting framework for the period 1980-2000, this paper estimates Hong Kong's total factor productivity and unit labor cost of twenty industries classified into three economic sectors of tradable goods, tradable services...
Andrew Mason,Tomoko Kinugasa
Andrew Mason
R Dekle
R Dekle
"This paper constructs and estimates a simple model of Japanese completed fertility. The analytical model shows that as a woman's lifetime wage rises, there is a decline in average 'quality' per child, but the effect on the quantity of chil...
Aging of the population in Japan and its implications to the other Asian countries [0.03%]
日本人口老龄化及其对亚洲其他国家的影响
N Yashiro
N Yashiro
"The speed at which Japan's population is aging is mainly a result of its rapid economic development, which is common to many other East Asian countries. Two aspects of the aging of the population are an increasing share of the elderly and ...