Wonkyu Shin ('10 Int’l Commerce, Doctoral candidate) won 1st place at the KIEA* Master’s/Doctorate and Post-Graduate Thesis Competition on Economic Affairs held at the 35th Anniversary of the KIEA Academic Seminar. The prize was awarded based on a unanimous vote of a panel of specialists after a thorough and rigorous review process. Contenders were asked to write about any issue regarding current economic affairs. MA and Ph. D. students from the Department of Economics and the Graduate School of Business at universities including SNU, Sogang University and Yonsei University participated in the competition. The title of Mr. Shin’s award-winning piece is “The Effect of Intellectual Property Right on Export Varying under the Level of Technology: A Comparative Analysis of Developed and Developing Countries," which received high compliments from the judges regarding topic, methodology and both quantitative and qualitative analyses.
*Korea International Economic Association