Purpose - This study analyzed Korea's relations table through network analysis. In particular, among the centralities, eigenvector centrality, PageRank centrality and degree were used. The author studied which network characteristics affected the value-added rate. Design/methodology/approach - A...

Purpose: During the Paris Convention, Korean Government made commitment to curb carbon emission by 37 percent by the year of 2030. Since then there has been constant debate, both in media and academia, as to whether attempts to reduce carbon emission would spell the concomitant economic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the effects of TPP on Korean economy focussing on the changes in the number of firms and productivity. Design/methodology/approach – Following Melitz (2003) and Balistreri et al. (2011), the authors apply CGE simulation to five groups of 140...

In this thesis we study characterize the dynamic relationships among two electricityprice variables (residential and commercial) and six regional economic variables in orderto examine each individual variable??s role in regional economic activity. We also answerthe question ??Do electricity...

A recent outbreak of bird flu or avian influenza (AI), an especially highly pathogenicstrain (HPAI) of H5N1, started in Hong Kong in January 2003 and caused 159 humandeaths in Asia, Africa and Europe through early 2007. In addition, this outbreak resultedin millions of slaughtered birds and...

The paper considers univariate and multivariate models to forecast monthly conflict events in the Sudan over the out-of-sample period 2009 – 2012. The models used to generate these forecasts were based on a specification from a machine learning algorithm fit to 2000 – 2008 monthly data. The...

Though recent literature uncovers linkages between commodity prices and conflict, the causal direction of the relationship remains ambiguous. We attempt to contribute in this strand of research by studying the dynamic relationship of commodity prices and the onsets of conflict events in Sudan....