Since the fostering of trade liberalization in the 1990s, conventional trade barriers, such as tariffs, have been dropping steadily worldwide. Under the WTO regime, member countries are unable to impose higher tariff rates than the bound rates, and the effective tariff rates have been decreasing...

Weather management, a newly emerging segment in big data utilization, will take advantage of meteorological information to analyze the behavior patterns of customers that change according to the weather and employ the resulting data in strategic management decisions. The purpose of weather...

3D printing is defined as a fabrication of objects through the deposition of a material, using a print head, a nozzle, or other printer technologies. 3D printing began in 1987 when 3D Systems of the U.S. sold 3D printers for the first time in the world. 3D printing is often used synonymously...

The concept of industrial structural upgrading is defined differently by each researcher, but it generally means changing from low-technology/low-value-added industry to high-technology and high-value-added industry. In the progress, innovative activities lead to higher productivity, which...

Countries undergoing economic transition in the early 1990s faced enormous challenges in the process of shifting from a centrally-planned economic system toward a market-based economy. During the transition period, large state sectors of the former Socialist countries in the Eastern bloc...

The US set an oil export ban after the Iranian crisis in the 1970s due to energy security issues. Since US oil production has been continuously diminishing, there had not been many issues until recently. However, after the hydraulic fracturing technology was introduced to development of shale in...

South Asian countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – have been recognized as having the fastest recovering economies. Their economic growth was responsible for almost 7% of the annual GDP growth rate in 2014.The recent recovering growth...

Global Value Chains (GVCs) are known to have a skill-biased effect on the wage structure in developed countries. If the skill groups are divided into two – high-skilled vs low-skilled groups – then the direction of the skill-biased effect is clear in the existing literature. Many studies...

Many Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are taking place in almost every corner of the world, and Korea is no exception. Korea notified over 50 FTAs to the WTO and has taken significant steps to reduce trade barriers through free trade agreements with major trade partners such as the USA, EU, China,...

Nowadays, as Korean companies are eager for overseas investment, there has been a growing interest in analysis of the investment environment of our overseas subsidiaries.In this paper, I will compare the investment environment conditions through a questionnaire survey of our overseas...