Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
KIEP
The Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) was founded in 1990 as a government-funded economic research institute. It is a leading institute concerning the international economy and its relationship with Korea. KIEP advises the government on all major international economic policy issues and serves as a warehouse of information on Korea’s international economic policies. Further, KIEP carries out research by request from outside institutions and organizations on all areas of the Korean and international economies by request.
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Achieving Inclusive and Innovative Growth with Competition Policies
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2022-01-19)In recent years, inequality has grown worse worldwide. For example, the share of income possessed by the top 1% in major countries is increasing, together with a rise in the inequality index. Recent studies have pointed out weakening market competition ... -
New International Tax System and Global Investment
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2022-01-19)The OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework drives reforms of the international tax system to address tax avoidance issues of multinational enterprises (MNEs) arising in digital economies. Based on the mutual agreement reached in October 2021 by 137 member countries ... -
The Challenges of Adapting Trade Policies to the Digital Era
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2022-01-04)This study focuses on digital trade policies that affect the trading of goods and services over the internet. We use the terms digital trade and ecommerce interchangeably. Earlier studies on barriers to digital trade shed light on newly erected barriers ... -
Evaluating the Second Half of the Kim Jong-Un Era: Evidence from Nighttime Light
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2022-01-03)Satellite data can sometimes provide valuable information on countries that lack the statistical ability or willingness to disclose information to the outer world. North Korea is one such country, and the satellite-produced nighttime light data allows ... -
Strategic Portfolio Building in Donors’ Multilateral Institutional Choice
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2021-12-30)More donors are formally assessing their multilateral aid disbursement policies as well as the multilateral institutions that they contribute to. Analyzing OECD Creditor Reporting System data from 2011 to 2019 of 23 donors and 34 multilateral organizations, ... -
Fiscal Policy and Redistribution in a Small Open Economy with Aging Population
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2021-12-30)This paper sets up a two agent small open economy with monopolistically competitive firms and catching up with the Joneses to investigate the labor and capital Laffer curve, taking into account aging population along the line of Auray et al. (2016), ... -
Forecasting KOSPI Return Using a Modified Stochastic AdaBoosting
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2021-12-30)AdaBoost tweaks the sample weight for each training set used in the iterative process, however, it is demonstrated that it provides more correlated errors as the boosting iteration proceeds if models’ accuracy is high enough. Therefore, in this study, ... -
The New Southern Policy Plus: Progress and Way Forward
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2021-12-30)For the first time in history, the 21st ASEAN-Republic of Korea (ROK, hereinafter, Korea) Summit was held via videoconference on November 20, 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Normally, the Summit would have been held in the ASEAN Chair country, ... -
COVID-19 and the Exacerbation of Gender Inequality: How the Pandemic Disproportionately Affected Women around the World
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2021-12-20)This brief seeks to provide an initial exploration, specifically highlighting how variably the pandemic has affected the United States, South Korea, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, the Honduras, Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany. When it ... -
Koreaʹs Aid Agencies and its Result-Based Management System
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2021-12-10)This study was conducted to analyze the current situation of results-based management in Korea's ODA agencies and to find ways to reform the aid management system. To this end, a factfinding survey and literature review were conducted for the government ...