This study evaluates the impact of provision of credit guarantee in Korea at the firm level. The data is assembled from two public funds providing credit guarantees covering the period 2000 to 2003. The sample firms consist of SMEs mainly. To measure the effects of credit guarantee, the...

Korean Abstract: 한-인도 CEPA는 인구 및 경제규모 면에서 거대 신흥국가와 체결한 최초의 자유무역협정으로, 2010년 발효 당시 많은 관심과 기대를 받았다. 상품 및 서비스 무역, 투자, 전문 인력 교류 등 우리나라가 추구했던...

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

This paper examines the causal relationship between inequality and a number of macroeconomic variables frequently found in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the existing cross-country empirical evidence on the effects of...