This paper ranks higher education in Korea based upon research productivity in business and economics disciplines. The number of SCI-level journal articles are tabulated using the Web of Science search engine, over the sample period from 1990 to 2016. The league table shows that many private...

This paper employs a cross-country regression to investigate the role of education in the growth of nations. The sample includes 101 countries over the period from 1980 to 2015. We have found that education, in general, has significant effects on economic growth. For the robustness of the...

This study evaluates the research productivity of universities and research institutes in Asia based on publications in Science and Nature . We find that Chinese institutions dominate the league. The recent rise of China is largely attributed to international collaboration with prominent U.S....

The export-led growth hypothesis has been examined for the case of South Korea, which has long been regarded as a typical export-oriented economy. In particular, the expansion of exports in South Korea has been reinforced by the imports of raw materials and intermediate goods from overseas, and...

New growth theories suggest that an economy's increased openness raises domestic productivity, and hence must have a positive effect on the living standards of a nation. The North Korean economy, isolated from world trade for several decades and its economy devastated, provides a test for this...

The effect of increasing openness on real output growth in China is examined. The framework of analysis is a regression model that uses time-series data for each province. For east coastal provinces, increasing openness is found to have positive effects on real output growth, and some of the...